Materials Physics and Applications
We develop new technologies that solve pressing national energy and security challenges by exploring and exploiting materials and their properties; developing practical applications of materials, and providing world-class user facilities.
MPA Mission
We conduct world-class research in materials science at the atomic, nano-, meso-, and macroscopic scales and enable the development of new technologies that solve pressing national energy and security challenges by
- discovering materials and exploring their properties,
- developing new characterization tools and practical applications of materials,
- understanding and exploiting quantum phenomena, and
- providing world-class user facilities.
Vision
MPA, as LANL’s flagship experimental fundamental science organization, is sought out across LANL as the premier partner for solving the world’s most difficult scientific problems.
Key capabilities
- Actinide chemistry
- Advanced separation technologies
- Electro-magnet design
- Extreme high magnetic fields
- Hydrogen storage and fuel cells
- Nanomaterials synthesis and characterization
- Sensors: acoustic, hydrogen, high explosive
- Spectroscopy (neutron, NMR, NIR-VIS)
- Strongly correlated materials
- Ultrafast materials and optical science
News
- MPA Materials Matter, an electronic newsletter featuring interviews with staff from Materials Physics and Applications and news of awards and the latest research published in peer-reviewed journals.
