LLNL employees, participating in five project teams, were recognized with Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary’s Honor Awards.
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A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory team has uncovered a new thermal decomposition pathway for an important explosive compound.
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A multi-disciplinary team used chemical transient kinetics and microkinetic modeling to understand a key reaction in electrochemical CO2 conversion.
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The details of the historic Dec. 5, 2022, fusion ignition experiment are presented in the Feb. 5, 2024, issue of Physical Review Letters.
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New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of Oklahoma, and other collaborators significantly changes how we understand the global nitrogen cycle.
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A research team sheds new light on how to access the sugars locked up in plant materials in order to convert byproducts into new feedstocks.
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Seven teams of LLNL researchers were honored with the Defense Programs Award of Excellence for their outstanding contributions.
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Studies using recent ignition experiments indicate such an upgrade in laser energy could increase fusion output by a factor of 10, resulting in yields in the 30 MJ range.
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Scientists at LLNL have found that synthetic antibacterial minerals exhibit potent antibacterial activity against topical MRSA infections and increase the rate of wound closure.
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Researchers combined lasers and X-ray diffraction methods to examine how different crystal structures of iron are related to each other.