Science and Technology Highlights

Opportunistic pathogenic species, such as Acinetobacter, are prevalent in combat wound infections and commonly found on the gear of U.S. military service members.
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To support the early detection of potentially detrimental microbial factors, LLNL researchers have developed a targeted panel for the capture and sequencing of microbial genomic signatures.

During exploration drilling at the Halleck Creek Rare Earth project, geologists conduct field surface research.
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Using a bioengineered protein-based technology, LLNL scientists and collaborators develop a new separation technique for rare-earth elements (REE).

LLNL researchers have have found  that soils, a huge carbon pool, tend to lose carbon as global temperatures rise. The research appears in Nature Geoscience.
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LLNL scientists and collaborators quantify and model the emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon.

Simon Pang (left) and Buddhinie Jayathilake assemble and prepare a prototype bubble column electrobioreactor to test additively manufactured three-dimensional electrodes. Under their project, excess renewable electricity from wind and solar sources would be stored in chemical bonds as renewable natural gas.
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LLNL researchers and partners develop a new storage method for excess renewable electricity from wind and solar sources.

A photo taken by a scanning electron microscope shows a pit at the surface of an additively manufactured (3D-printed) stainless steel part.
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LLNL scientists publish a paper on the the mysterious world of pitting corrosion in additively manufactured (3D-printed) stainless steel 316L in seawater.

Supercomputer simulations predicting the synthesis pathways for the elusive BC8 "super-diamond", involving shock compressions of diamond precursor, inspire ongoing Discovery Science experiments at NIF.
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A team of LLNL scientists conducts multi-million atomic molecular-dynamics simulations to uncover required temperature and pressure conditions for super-diamond creation.

LLNL scientist Maria Gabriela Davila Ordonez manipulates the high-pressure hydrogen system for the Subsurface Hydrogen Assessment, Storage and Technology Acceleration (SHASTA) project
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LLNL has received $1 million to explore technologies that stimulate hydrogen production from mineral deposits found in the subsurface.

Laboratory employees in front of a gas chromatography mass spectrometer
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A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory team has uncovered a new thermal decomposition pathway for an important explosive compound.

LLNL researcher Nitish Govindarajan sits at table
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A multi-disciplinary team used chemical transient kinetics and microkinetic modeling to understand a key reaction in electrochemical CO2 conversion.

The spent target assembly is reported in the cover article of Physical Review Letters
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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.