MST Groups

MST-6 | MST-7 | MST-8 | MST-16

Materials Technology: Metallurgy (MST-6) focuses on materials science and engineering emphasizing metallurgical processes.

Capabilities
Mechanical fabrication, foundry/machining, microstructural characterization, welding and joining, powder metallurgy and ceramics, electroplating and electroforming, corrosion, alloy development.

Phone: 505-667-4368

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Polymers and Coatings (MST-7) maintains the Laboratory's expertise in polymer sciences, chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, micro-machining (including diamond turning), precision manufacturing and assembly, and fabrication of experimental packages for the Inertial Confinement Fusion and Radiation Physics (ICF&RP), the High Energy Density Hydrodynamics (HEDH), and other elements of the nuclear weapons programs.

Capabilities
Physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, assembly, polymers, precision machining, oriented thin films, membranes and separations.

Phone: 505-667-6887

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Structure/Property Relations (MST-8) provides a laboratory focus on expertise and facilities used to evaluate and understand the relationships between material properties and their underlying structures.

Capabilities
Experimental mechanics of materials, dynamic materials properties, Electron Microscopy Lab, Ion Beam Materials Lab, ion/solid interactions and interface engineering, metastable materials, multi-layered materials, materials and process simulation, single crystal synthesis, scanning probe technology, high temperature structural materials, radiation tolerant ceramics and composites, neutron scattering studies of materials, optical materials. Read more at www.lanl.gov/orgs/mst/mst8/.

Phone: 505-665-4735

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Nuclear Materials Science (MST-16) focuses on characterization of new and aged pit construction materials, the development of technologies for advanced actinide materials characterization, and actinide materials science investigations.

Capabilities
Metallography, mechanical and dynamic testing, interfacial science, physical metallurgy and thermodynamics, materials physics and metallurgy, corrosion and gas reaction studies.

Phone: 505-667-4665

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