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2012 Fundamental & Computational Sciences Accomplishments Report Now Available
October 2012
Since 2004, the Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate publishes a full-color brochure that highlights discoveries and solutions made during the fiscal year. 2012 Key Accomplishments Report of the Fundamental & Computational Sciences is now available as a downloadable PDF.
Nickelblock: An Element's Love-hate Relationship with Battery Electrodes
October 2012
Results: Anyone who owns an electronic device knows that lithium-ion batteries could work better and last longer. Now, scientists examining battery materials on the nano-scale reveal how nickel forms a physical barrier that impedes the shuttling of lithium ions in the electrode, reducing how fast the materials charge and discharge. Published last week in Nano Letters, the research also suggests a way to improve the materials.
- PNNL Scientists Involved in Producing Reports by the National Academies
October 2012 - Creating an Iron Understudy
Designer particles stand in for layers of subsurface mineralsSeptember 2012 - Project Won to Lead Black Carbon Research in Russian Arctic
Selection based on expertise in greenhouse gas emissions assessment, mitigation techniquesSeptember 2012 - Steven Ghan Editor-in-Chief for JGR-Atmospheres
September 2012 - Bill Morgan Authored Three Top 50 Radiation Research Articles
September 2012 - A-Tiskit, A-Tasket, The Greenhouse Gas Basket
Ranking methane's impact on future climate changeSeptember 2012 - Caught in the Act: Atmospheric Organic Particles' MO Revealed
Elusive atmospheric compound revealed in the laboratorySeptember 2012 - Moving Mountains: Electrons Hop through Iron Oxide Minerals in a Type of Semiconduction
Research helps clarify how minerals grow and disintegrateSeptember 2012 - Mohamad Hejazi, Editor of Journal of Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering
September 2012 - Lung Imaging Research Gets Its Second Wind
Bytes versus breathsSeptember 2012 - Dust Achieves Lofty Aspirations
Disposition to form ice crystals is measured and modeled for a new-fangled frameworkSeptember 2012 - Mass Spec Makes the Clinical Grade
Protein assays matching sensitivity and accuracy of antibody-based clinical tests might speed drug discovery, basic biology researchSeptember 2012 - L. Ruby Leung Appointed Editor of Journal of Hydrometeorology
August 2012 - DuBois Receives National Inorganic Chemistry Award
August 2012 - Charles Long Receives 2012 World Meteorological Organization Väisälä Award for Research on Fractional Cloudiness
August 2012 - The Path a Proton Takes
Scenic route preferred to more direct path in alternative fuel cell membraneAugust 2012 - How to Catch Aerosols in the Act
Scientists use satellites to measure how pollution particles affect cloudsAugust 2012 - A Chemistry Tale of Two Carbons
Comprehensive field study of urban and natural emissions interacting to affect climate changeAugust 2012 - New Protein Discovered Gives Insights to Iron's Fate Underground
Scientists identify molecule that steals electrons, leaving iron stuck in the mudAugust 2012 - Fresh Water Feeds Hurricanes' Fury
Hurricanes and tropical cyclones become up to 50 percent more intense when passing over oceans inundated with fresh waterAugust 2012 - Team Wins 2012 Innovation Award
August 2012 - Turning Down the Heat for Carbon
Unusual reaction eschews high temperatures and water to lock away climate-changing carbon dioxideAugust 2012 - Listening to Life
New chemical imaging method probes the communications of live microbial colonies July 2012 - Mother Nature as a Wire Manufacturer
With computational models, scientists see how microbe directs electronsJuly 2012 - Pollution Weakens Monsoon's Might
Local, global emissions suppress South Asian summer rainfall July 2012 - Chuck Peden and Morris Bullock Named American Chemical Society Fellows
July 2012 - Unique Protein Fold Flags Potentially Unique Function
Crystal structure of a cyanobacterial protein associated with nitrogen fixationJuly 2012 - Flexible Molecular Cages Expand to Pack in Multiple Metals
Solid metal frameworks retain shapes after unpacking, allowing detailed measurementsJuly 2012