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Excellence in Science & Technology

Reinventing Chemical Catalysts
and Catalytic Processes

2025 Vision: Once considered a waste product, carbon now is the foundation of a
vibrant new U.S. energy industry. Strides in catalysis research allow U.S. firms to create
high-quality fuels and advanced materials from abundant, domestic carbon feedstocks.

Goals PNNL’s Energy Sciences Capability, opening
in 2020, will consolidate the Laboratory's
• Integrate and focus PNNL’s world-leading
capabilities in catalysis science for precise world-class catalysis research and establish
design and synthesis of hierarchical cata- a global center for research col-
lysts at atomic and molecular levels laboration in chemical and
materials sciences.
• Develop bioinspired catalysts with faster
reaction rates at lower temperatures
and pressures to produce a cleaner,
more resilient, more efficient, and cost-
effective energy infrastructure

• Create analytical methods for real-
time monitoring of catalytic processes

• Craft theories describing complex
reactions at interfaces and facilitating
integration of chemistry and data science

Research Partners “DOE’s investments at PNNL in the Institute
for Integrated Catalysis and the Center for
Molecular Electrocatalysis have helped us to Lou Terminello
achieve global leadership in the field. With Steward
DOE’s support and our network of partners
across Washington State, the United States, Karl Mueller
and the world, PNNL is leading in the Science Lead
discovery of new chemical pathways for the
sustainable production and use of energy.”

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