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Photo of Wren Carr and Peter DeVore with SPIE logo
// Recognition
LLNL's Wren Carr and Peter DeVore have been elected as senior members of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
The figure shows the energy ranking, where lower energy means higher stability, as a function of density for the most stable crystal structures generated by the algorithm.
// S&T Highlights
Research by LLNL and collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University demonstrates that crystal structure prediction is a useful tool for studying the various ways the molecules can pack together, also known as ubiquitous polymorphism, in energetic materials.
2023 Director’s Excellence in Publication Awards
// Director's Awards
Nineteen papers covering a wide spectrum of research have received 2023 Director’s Excellence in Publication Awards. This honor acknowledges and rewards outstanding scientific and technical publications by Laboratory staff.
An atomic level view of Li-Mg imide nanoparticle wrapped by a layer of carbon host after hydrogen desorption
// S&T Highlights
LLNL computational scientists worked with experimental collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley and Sandia national laboratories to design metal amide-based composites capable of overcoming key kinetic limitations in their performance as hydrogen storage materials.
A Stellar Occultation Hypertemporal Imaging Payload (SOHIP) image of the Earth during the day.
// S&T Highlights
The hardware included the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program Houston 9 (STP-H9) platform, which houses a prototype telescope designed and built by LLNL's Space Science and Security Program.
Photo os David Gibson and Paul Pax
// Recognition
LLNL scientists David Gibson and Paul Pax have been named senior members of Optica (formerly OSA).
heatmap of the risk of equipment overload for a 70,000-bus synthetic system, representative of the eastern United States
// S&T Highlights
To advance the modeling and computational techniques needed to develop more efficient grid-control strategies under emergency scenarios, a multi-institutional team has used a LLNL-developed software capable of optimizing the grid’s response to potential disruption events under different weather scenarios, on Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer.
photo of Daniel Casey and Gauthier Deblonde
// Recognition
LLNL scientists Daniel Casey and Gauthier Deblonde have been named recipients of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Program award.
Megajoule Neutron Imaging Radiography Experiment team
// S&T Highlights

In early May, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Megajoule Neutron Imaging Radiography Experiment (MJOLNIR) team’s dense plasma focus (DPF) achieved greater than 1012 neutrons in a single deuterium

An atomic-level view of water confined in a small-diameter nanotube.
// S&T Highlights

A new study provides surprising behavior of hydrogen bonding of water confined in carbon nanotubes.