Featured News Articles
2009
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Nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide absorbs visible sunlight and then releases electrical energy
(September 2009) -
Unusual Aluminum Bonding Geometry in C&E News
(September 2009) -
New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst, PNNL press release
(August 2009) -
Secretary Chu to tour Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL press release
(August 2009) -
View of Rhodium-Based Catalyst for Hydrogen-Fuel System Offers Ideas for Improvement, Azonano
(August 2009) -
Chemicals from the garden: C&E News
(July 2009) -
PNNL details smart solutions for generating biofuels, cleaning dirty fuel, at catalysis conference, PNNL tipsheet
(June 2009) -
Plastic that grows on trees, part two, PNNL press release
(May 2009) -
Dancing 'adatoms' help chemists understand how water molecules split, PNNL press release
(March 2009)
2008
- Seattle Times discusses catalysis and the nation's dependence on oil
(September 2008) - Professor Theodore (Ted) Madey The IIC was saddened to learn of the passing of another giant in the surface science community, Professor Theodore (Ted) Madey, the State of New Jersey Professor of Surface Science at Rutgers University.
- John Holladay quoted in "Breaking the Catalytic Barrier to Biofuels"
(July 2008) - IIC Interim Director quoted in prestigious chemistry journal
(July 2008) -
Chemical Science ran an article on hydrogen storage materials and quoted IIC's Tom Autrey on ammonia borane
(July 2008) - Chemical Engineering Progress (AICHE) features a three page article entitled, "Nanosensors: Evolution, not Revolution…yet" extensively quoting PNNL's Glen Fryxell and Yuehe Lin
(June 2008) - Ammonia borane catalysis research featured in several publications
- The Engineer
(June 2008) - H2 Daily
(June 2008) - Green gasoline
(June 2008) - Save the Planet Website
(June 2008) - Engineer Live
(June 2008)
- The Engineer
- Methane catalyst research with China featured in Green Car Congress
(May 2008) - Halting methane squanderlust
(May 2008) - IIC research on catalytic upgrading of biomass receives new DOE funding
(March 2008) - AICHE (subscription may be required)
(March 2008) - Environmental Science & Technology magazine ran a story on a renewable route to green gasoline and quoted PNNL's Conrad Zhang
(February 2008) - Coal Gasification - Myths, challenges, and opportunities
(February 2008) - Catalysis Discovery Takes Aim at NOx Emissions
(February 2008)- Science Daily
(February 2008) - PhysOrg
(February 2008) - RxPG News
(February 2008) - Bright Surf UK
(February 2008) - Checkbiotech, Switzerland
(February 2008) - Innovations Report, Germany
(February 2008)
- Science Daily
- 'Hot' oxygen atoms on titanium dioxide motivated by more than just temperature
[PNNL press release, February 8, 2008]
2007
- "Chemistry research at its best": IIC research highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News (December 2007)
- Fuel cells help make noisy, hot generators a thing of the past (December 2007)
- Nixing Noxious Nitrogen Oxides with a Better Support System (December 2007)
- "Catalysis at PNNL" Chemical & Engineering News (November 19, 2007), which is a publication of the American Chemical Society
- Summer FY07 Message from the Director
- Plastic that grows on trees
- PNNL Scientist featured in Science Magazine (Volume 316, no. 5831 - Full article requires subscription).
- PNNL takes stand on climate change in Seattle Times
- Better chemistry through living models
- New metal crystals, formed on a cotton assembly line
- PNNL Scientists edit issue of Catalysis Today (Volume 120, issue 1 - Full article requires subscription).
- PNNL/IIC Staff present 26 papers at the NAM
- "Global energy maps" of a material and its effectiveness as a catalyst (Journal feature)
- Hopping Hydrogen (Journal feature)
- Chuck Peden elected to chair of ACS Catalysis and Surface Science Secretariat (ACS CATL)
- Dr. Shao-chun Li joins IIC to work on multi-institutional project
- Glen Fryxell receives ACS Award
2006
- The first annual meeting of the new Pacific Coast Catalysis Society (evolved from the California Catalysis Society) took place in Seattle on Friday, Sept. 8, 2006. See the PCCS Flyer for details.
- Chuck Mims - visiting professor at PNNL
- 5th International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces (IWOX V)
- Jim White named to ORCS (Organic Reactions Catalysis Society) board of directors
- PNNL scientist, Igor Lyubinetsky, to participate in International Conference to commemorate the invention and development of SPM (25 years of STM) (2006 International Conference)
- Hydrogen fuel cells become faster and greener with new catalyst PhysOrg.com
- Two PNNL postdocs accept faculty positions
- Mike Henderson promoted to Laboratory Fellow
- Yong Wang Named 2005 PNNL Inventor of the Year
- Janos Szanyi Joins Editorial Board of Catalysis Letters
- Dr. James Strohm, a new face at PNNL's IIC
- New IIC Staff Member, Dr. Donghai Mei
- Past Message from Director (April 2006)
- Dr. Dan DuBois Joins PNNL's IIC
- PNNL work highlighted in Materials Today (Note: Full article requires subscription)
- PNNL work featured in Spectroscopy Now
- Filling up with Hydrogen, American Scientist (August/September) Note: Full article requires subscription
- Basic Energy Sciences Hydrogen Fuel Initiative awards three PNNL proposals:
- Tom Autrey and Maciej Gutowski (Control of Hydrogen Release and Uptake in Condensed Phases)
- Mike Henderson (Fundamental Investigations of Water Splitting on Model TiO2 Photocatalysts Doped for Visible Light Absorption)
- Michel Dupuis (Charge Transfer, Transport, and Reactivity in Complex Molecular Environments: Theoretical Studies for the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative)
- Dr. Zhenrong Zhang Joins PNNL's IIC
- Yong Yang Joins PNNL's IIC
2005
- Science and Society interview with Doug Ray, PNNL Chief Research Officer, June 15, 2005
- Summary Recommendations for a National Catalysis Research Institute (May 2005)
- Pacific Northwest lab forms Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, names director - February 18, 2005
2004
- Fine-tuning carbon nanotubes - Summer 2004
- Lab discovers way to keep short-lived catalysts active for longer than five months - April 1, 2004
