STE Highlights 2021
Science, Technology & Engineering Highlights feature awards and noteworthy scientific achievements at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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January 2021
- Four LANL scientists rank in 2020 list of ‘Highly Cited Researchers'
- Unsupervised AI software is like a data science Swiss Army knife
- Novel tech leads to highest-resolution material characterization and internal defect ultrasonic imaging
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development proposal calls due soon
- Material advances: 2D plasmonic nanostructures to harness quantum light
- Two studies improve understanding movement of methane
March 2021
- Durham joins leadership of international LHCb experiment
- Massarczyk selected for SURF Executive Committee
- Climate science: Modeling unprecedented freshwater spillover into the Atlantic
- Improving data quality of algal genomics
- LANL research makes Physics World’s top 10 breakthroughs list
- World’s first demonstration of quantum key security for the electric grid
- Leveraging multiscale simulations to predict fission gas release from advanced nuclear fuel
- Understanding transport and breakup of reactive ejecta
April 2021
- Chung Hyuk Lee awarded NSERC fellowship
- Nora Norvell wins UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellowship
- Properties of boron investigated
- Los Alamos makes foundation contributions to Electron-Ion Collider physics, detector studies
- ‘Fracture caging’ unveiled as a new method to prevent human-induced earthquakes
- LANL-developed software addresses the world’s data storage crisis
- A new approach toward high quality epitaxial actinide thin films
- Role of ion sputtering examined in quest to develop atomic resolution images of plutonium
- Improving how metals withstand nuclear reactions
June 2021
- Saryu Fensin joins APR early career editorial board
- Andrew Bartlow selected to attend the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
- Piotr Zelenay named 2021 International Society of Electrochemistry Fellow
- From atoms to pins: Leveraging multiscale simulations to predict fission gas release from advanced nuclear fuel
- Imaging breakthrough of plastic bonded explosives
- DICER instrument at LANSCE used to help design world’s largest cryogenic neutrino detector
- NASA selects U. Michigan-LANL proposal for a rocket experiment to test techniques that could enable the operation of high-power electron accelerators in space
- Biodiversity is a harbinger of ecosystem health
- ARMY – LANL – NNSS collaboration develops pRad technique to visualize electromagnetic fields
July 2021
- Banerjee accepted to Royal Society of Chemistry; named outstanding peer reviewer of RSC journal
- Rodgers awarded DOE NNSA Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship
- Kurrennoy named APS Outstanding Referee
- Winter elected member-at-large of APS GIMS
- Rao wins 2021 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award
- Machine learning aids discovery of new double perovskite oxides
- A natural way to follow multiple pathways during photoexcited reactions
- New circuit-efficient quantum algorithm addresses limited qubit connectivity
- Measuring sub-surface corrosion features in plutonium storage containers
- Assessing the state of non-hybrid redox flow batteries
- Trivalent americium/neodymium work selected for Science Editor’s Choice recognition
- Strong interplay between defect migration and magnetic spins revealed
August 2021
- Gibbs awarded 2021 ASM Bronze Medal Award
- Klein featured by NNSA for cutting-edge work in AI for national security
- Wenting Li awarded Best Paper for Machine Learning Innovation
- LANSCE neutron beam transport optimized via advanced collimation design techniques
- C3Lab updates enhance custom gas mixture capability
- ‘Computer vision’ techniques track plasma flow features
- Self-assembly monolayer boosts efficiency and lifetime of perovskite solar cells
- Advances in catalytic hydrogenation with non-transition metals
- Understanding glass transition temperature for biodegradable plastics
September 2021
- MPA technology recognized with FLC awards
- Xiaojing Wang recognized for hydrogen and fuel cell research
- New silicon allotrope offers improved properties
- Ultrafast X-ray provides new look at plasma discharge breakdown in water
- Controlling the stereochemical features of metal complexes
- Giant magnetoelectric coupling and low magnetic field switching demonstrated in spin crossover complex
- University students explore nuclear nonproliferation with LANL experts in a virtual environment
October 2021
- Researcher joins UCSD in first Laboratory joint appointment with a UC campus
- Dean, Morales, Li recognized for high energy nuclear physics contributions at RHIC
- An adaptive approach to machine learning for compact particle accelerators
- Special issue paper reviews CoPA particle application advancements
- EES-led Large University Project geology study connects damage to permeability, trains students
- Digestion and Trace Metal Analysis of Uranium Nitride
November 2021
- Tretiak receives Humboldt Research Award
- Prasankumar named Fellow with Optica
- Clean Chemistry Team achieves ISO 17025 accreditation
- Perovskite nanocrystals stabilized in metal organic frameworks
- Computing molecular excited states on a D-Wave quantum annealer
- Project to develop AI and ML algorithms wins DOE funding