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Wren Carr, a new SPIE Fellow, has dedicated his career to optics at the National Ignition Facility. (Photo: Blaise Douros/LLNL)
// Recognition
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Wren Carr was recently selected as a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
illustration of genetically engineered metabolic pathways in yeast to consume sugar and produce oxalic acid
// S&T Highlights
Researchers from LLNL, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Kentucky established a novel microbial platform that produces oxalic acid and purifies rare-earth elements.
collage of DMTS winners
// Director's Awards
Thirty-six Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have been named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff (DMTS) in recognition of their extraordinary scientific and technical contributions, as affirmed by their professional peers and the broader scientific community.
group shot of ALS team
// S&T Highlights
A LLNL-led team of scientists and computational engineers has identified several existing medications that may be associated with longer survival in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), using one of the largest electronic health record datasets ever assembled for ALS.
In a pioneering partnership to accelerate materials discovery with AI, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Meta have created the world’s largest open dataset of atomistic polymer chemistry — a trove of millions of quantum-accurate simulations designed to help AI model the complex behavior of plastics, films, batteries and countless everyday materials.
// S&T Highlights

In a recent paper, an LLNL team and collaborators detail Open Polymers 2026 (OPoly26) — a dataset with an unprecedented number and diversity of polymer structures with corresponding simulations performed at quantum accuracy. 

LLNL biologist James Thissen loads DNA samples for sequencing in a pathogen-agnostic method to identify respiratory viruses.
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In a recent study, LLNL researchers and the California Department of Public Health identified other potentially harmful respiratory viruses in samples that tested negative in a standard, NAAT-based panel. 

Shaun Kerr and Dean Rusby have refined the MeV X-ray generation of NIF’s Advanced Radiographic Capability, leading to unprecedented imaging of dense materials.
// S&T Highlights

LLNL's National Ignition Facility is the hottest place on earth for the briefest of moments during an experiment, as explained in a new paper in Physics of Plasmas

Schematic showing the setup for ion transport through a MXene membrane. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) discovered that applying an electric field to the gate can change the efficiency of the molecular transport through the membrane.
// S&T Highlights

By applying voltage to electrically control a new “transistor” membrane, LLNL researchers achieved real-time tuning of ion separations.

LLNL researchers have successfully synthesized a californium compound using polyoxometalates — large, cage-like clusters made primarily of metal and oxygen atoms. Their research was featured on a journal cover for Chemical Communications.
// S&T Highlights

LLNL chemists are using a novel nanoscale synthesis and crystallization approach to create, isolate and structurally characterize a pure californium-containing compound.

Overview of the key processes that are fundamental for understanding single-crystal battery materials.
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LLNL researchers outline how state-of-the-art computational modeling can help to unravel the fundamental relationships among battery processing, structure, properties.