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Energy Secretary recognizes exceptional project management at Los Alamos

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

The team responsible for managing the Exascale Class Computing Cooling Equipment (ECCCE) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory was recognized by the Secretary of Energy with an Achievement Award last week. Construction of the project was completed last year, 10 months early and $20 million under budget.

Laboratory, partners secure $4.7 million in DOE funding

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory and private-sector partners have secured a total of $4.7 million in Technology Commercialization Funds from the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate bringing cutting-edge energy technologies and solutions to the marketplace.

Emergent magnetic monopoles isolated using quantum-annealing computer

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a D-Wave quantum-annealing computer as a testbed, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have shown that it is possible to isolate so-called emergent magnetic monopoles, a class of quasiparticles, creating a new approach to developing "materials by design."

Journal: Science

The hidden culprit killing lithium-metal batteries from the inside

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first nanoscale images ever taken inside intact, lithium-metal coin batteries (also called button cells or watch batteries) challenge prevailing theories and could help make future high-performance batteries, such as for electric vehicles, safer, more powerful and longer lasting.

Journal: ACS Energy Letters

Neutron-clustering effect in nuclear reactors demonstrated for first time

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, the long-theorized neutron-clustering effect in nuclear reactors has been demonstrated, which could improve reactor safety and create more accurate simulations, according to a new study recently published in the journal Nature Communications Physics.

Sandia-led center to advance understanding of new solar panel technology

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy recently awarded $14 million to form a Sandia National Laboratories-led center to improve the understanding of perovskite-based photovoltaic technologies and determine the best tests to evaluate the new solar panels' lifetimes.

Funder: US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office

Software evaluates qubits, characterizes noise in quantum annealers

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

High-performance computer users in the market for a quantum annealing machine or looking for ways to get the most out of one they already have will benefit from a new, open-source software tool for evaluating these emerging platforms at the individual qubit level.

Setting gold and platinum standards where few have gone before

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Like two superheroes finally joining forces, Sandia's Z machine -- generator of the world's most powerful electrical pulses -- and Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility -- the planet's most energetic laser source -- have detailed gold and platinum responses to pressures so extreme that their atomic structures momentarily distorted like images in a fun-house mirror.Until now there has been no way to accurately calibrate these pressures , the first step to controlling them.

Journal: Science
Funder: National Nuclear Security Administration

Bahran honored with Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Service

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Rian Bahran, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist on assignment in Washington, D.C, has received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his exemplary performance.

Thin, stretchable biosensors could make surgery safer

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Purdue University have developed bio-inks for biosensors that could help localize critical regions in tissues and organs during surgical operations.

Journal: Nature Communications

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