Portfolio:
Chemistry
PNNL's vast experience in chemistry shows in this broad portfolio. These technologies include biobased (renewable) products, biomass gasification, supercritical fluids and mesoporous materials.
- Fluorine Abatement: Non-thermal Plasma for the Destruction of Fluorine in Semiconductor Operations
- Supported Cesium Heteropoly Acid Solid Acid Catalysts
Chemical Processing and Catalysis
- Chemometric Characterization and Classification of Unknown Vapors
- Cylindrically Focused Sonicators
- Method and Apparatus for Production of 213Bi from a High Activity 225Ac Source
- Novel Materials For Use In Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Oxidized and Reduced Derivatives of Hydroxymethyl Furfural (HMF)
- Purified Halogen Gas Production
- Stabilization Of Nickel Metal Catalysts for Aqueous Processing Systems
- Textured Metal Catalysts for Heterogeneous Catalysis
Materials Forming, Joining and Deposition
- Composite Reinforcements: Improved Properties of Fiber/Polymer Composites via Novel Self-Assembled Monolayer Fiber Coating
- Joining of Ceramics: Tough, High-strength, SiC to SiC Joints
- OLED Deposition Technology
- Powder Injection Molding
- Solution Deposition of Titanium Oxide (TiO2) Films
- Thin-film Barrier Encapsulation Technology
Materials Synthesis and Functionalization
- Aerogels: Chemical Functionalization of Nanostructured Materials Using Supercritical Reaction Media
- Armored Enzyme Nanoparticles
- Carbon Nanotube Arrays: Synthesis of Dense Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Completely Filled with Titanium Carbide on Titanium Substrates
- Carbon Nanotube Nano-Electrode Arrays
- Ceramic Oxide Thin Films on Polymers
- Cobalt Ferrite (CoFe2O4) by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- Composite Heterojunction (Core-Shell) Metal Oxides
- Electrosynthesis of Nanofibers and Nano-Composite Films
- Enzymes on Substrates: Exceptionally stable and highly active enzyme-coated carbon nanotubes
- Low K Materials for Advanced Semiconductors
- Method of Making Very Fine Particles/Powder for Polishing, Catalysis, and Other Applications
- Micellar Synthesis of Ultra-fine Iron Sulfide Particles
- Photopatternable Sorbent and Functionalized Films for Sensors, Devices, and Structures
- Quantum Dot Production Method
- Rare Earth Oxide Fluoride: Ceramic Nano-particles via a Hydrothermal Method
- Red Cy3-Based Biarsenical Fluorescent Probe
- Refractory Electrodes for Joule Heating and Methods of Using Same
- Self Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Supports (SAMMS): Surface Functionalized Mesoporous Materials
- Synthesis of Composite Materials Via Displacement Reactions
- Transparent Conductive Thin-Film Materials
Renewables
- Biorenewable Process to Acrylic Acid
- Conversion of Lactose (milk sugar) to Polyols
- Conversion of Levulinic Acid to Methyl Tetrahydrofuran
- Genetically Engineered Ethanol Producing Microorganisms
- Hydrogenation of Glutamic Acid to Pyroglutaminol and Prolinol
- Improved Processes for the Production of Proteins and Chemicals in Fungus Utilizing Bioprocessing
Supercritical Fluid Processing
- Hydroetching and Facile Functionalization of Aerogels using Moist Supercritical Fluids
- Low Temperature Sintering of Polymer Films with Supercritical Fluids
- Membrane Separations: Ultrafiltration Using Supercritical Fluids
- Micelles in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: An Environmentally Benign and Highly Effect Solvent System for Cleaning, Chemical Reactions and Extractions, and Product Recovery
- Supercritical CO2 for Coating Applications
