Science and Technology Highlights

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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Understanding soil carbon's sensitivity to increasing global temperatures

LLNL scientists and collaborators quantify and model the emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon.

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 researchers uncover culprits behind pitting corrosion in 3D-printed stainl…

LLNL scientists publish a paper on the the mysterious world of pitting corrosion in additively manufactured (3D-printed) stainless steel 316L in seawater.

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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New technique converts excess renewable energy to natural gas

LLNL researchers and partners develop a new storage method for excess renewable electricity from wind and solar sources.

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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Supercomputer simulations of super-diamond suggest a path to its creation

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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Hard as a rock, LLNL to study geologic hydrogen production

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 new thermal pathway for a high explosive

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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Looking at the importance of catalyst sites in electrochemical CO2 conversion

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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LLNL’s breakthrough ignition experiment highlighted in Physical Review Letters

The details of the historic Dec. 5, 2022, fusion ignition experiment are presented in the Feb. 5, 2024, issue of Physical Review Letters.

LLNL scientist Xavier Mayali sits in a laboratory
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Microbial research unravels a global nitrogen mystery

New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of Oklahoma, and other collaborators significantly changes how we understand the global nitrogen cycle.

Graphic depicting structural components of plants being broken down into simple sugars by enzymes
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Using agricultural residues for fuel and chemicals

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.