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Wenyu Sun, Aditya Prajapati and Jeremy Feaster in the lab where their research takes place.
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Using thin film nickel anodes, a team of LLNL scientists and collaborators figure out how to clean up chemical production.

Joe Ralph, co-lead author and inertial confinement fusion research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses the critical role of implosion symmetry in achieving a burning plasma state at the National Ignition Facility.
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LLNL researchers retrospectively confirm that implosion asymmetry was a major aspect for fusion experiments.

Femtosecond X-ray diffraction of laser shocked aluminum-zirconium metals.
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LLNL scientists use ultra-fast X-ray probes to track the thermal response of aluminum and zirconium on shock release from experiments. 

The image looks down the barrel of a metallic carbon nanotubes embedded in an array of closely-packed carbon nanotubes with different electronic properties.
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LLNL scientists find that pure metallic carbon nanotubes are best at transporting molecules.

A machine-learning potential derived from first-principles calculations unveils the intricate mechanisms of CO2 capture in liquid ammonia.
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LLNL scientists develop a machine-learning model to gain an atomic-level understanding of CO2 capture in amine-based sorbents.

LLNL's Russell Brand in 1989.
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At approximately 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1988, LLNL computer scientist Russell Brand's load on his VAX computer dramatically increased by 1,000-fold within a few seconds.
NIF Operations Manager Bruno Van Wonterghem, who has worked on NIF since the planning stages, received a Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates.
// Recognition

Bruno Van Wonterghem, operations manager at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF), was awarded a 2024 Distinguished Career Award by Fusion Power Associates (FPA).

Water gets weird under nano-confinement. This image shows an exotic phase of water trapped in tiny spaces, where it interacts surprisingly with electric fields.
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LLNL scientists and a collaborator at University of Texas at Austin turn to simulations to explain the first-order response of confined water to applied electric fields.

In inertial confinement fusion experiments, lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility focus on a tiny fuel capsule suspended inside a cylindrical x-ray oven called a hohlraum.
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LLNL researchers make advancements in understanding and resolving the long-standing "drive-deficit" problem in indirect-drive ICF experiments.

Despite the historical consensus, trivalent actinides and lanthanides exhibit distinct chemistries. By using polyoxometalate chelators, LLNL scientists provide crystallographic and spectroscopic evidence that americium and curium yield a variety of compounds that their lanthanide counterparts are unable to form.
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LLNL researchers develop a new technique for synthesizing molecular compounds with heavy elements.