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NIF Operations Manager Bruno Van Wonterghem, who has worked on NIF since the planning stages, received a Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates.
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Fusion Power Associates honors Bruno Van Wonterghem

Bruno Van Wonterghem, operations manager at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF), was awarded a 2024 Distinguished Career Award by Fusion Power Associates (FPA).

Water gets weird under nano-confinement. This image shows an exotic phase of water trapped in tiny spaces, where it interacts surprisingly with electric fields.
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Confined water gets electric

LLNL scientists and a collaborator at University of Texas at Austin turn to simulations to explain the first-order response of confined water to applied electric fields.

In inertial confinement fusion experiments, lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility focus on a tiny fuel capsule suspended inside a cylindrical x-ray oven called a hohlraum.
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LLNL researchers uncover key to resolving long-standing ICF hohlraum drive defi…

LLNL researchers make advancements in understanding and resolving the long-standing "drive-deficit" problem in indirect-drive ICF experiments.

Despite the historical consensus, trivalent actinides and lanthanides exhibit distinct chemistries. By using polyoxometalate chelators, LLNL scientists provide crystallographic and spectroscopic evidence that americium and curium yield a variety of compounds that their lanthanide counterparts are unable to form.
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Unravelling the chemistry of heavy elements

LLNL researchers develop a new technique for synthesizing molecular compounds with heavy elements.

Left to right: Hye-Sook Park (LLNL), George Swadling (LLNL), Anna Grassi and Frederico Fiuza.
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Two LLNL physicists honored for international collaboration

LLNL physicists Hye-Sook Park and George Swadling received the 2024 Lev D. Landau and Lyman Spitzer Jr. Award for Outstanding Contributions to Plasma Physics.

Machine learning potential derived from first-principles calculations reveals that confinement in TiO2 nanopores enhances proton transfer by reducing activation energy, highlighting the interplay between confinement, surface chemistry and topology in accelerating water reactivity.
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Nano-confinement may be key to improving hydrogen production

LLNL Researchers discover a new mechanism that can boost the efficiency of hydrogen production through water splitting.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have collaborated with Zap Energy in Everett, Washington, to measured plasma conditions on Z-pinch fusion experiments on the private-sector fusion company’s Fusion Z-pinch Experiment (FuZE) device.
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Advancements in Z-pinch fusion: New insights from plasma pressure profiles

LLNL scientists report advancements in understanding plasma pressure profiles within flow-stabilized Z-pinch fusion, a candidate for achieving net gain fusion energy in a compact device.

Yash Vaishnav received ”Best in Class” award from the Department of Energy’s Technology Transfer Working Group for his work on licensing nanolipoprotein particles (NLPs) technology to EVOQ Therapeutics.
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Innovation and Partnerships Office employee wins second national award

LLNL receives its second national recognition for collaborations surrounding the biomedical technology called nanolipoprotein particles (NLPs).

Shown is part of the Psyche Gamma Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS) and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) instrument and operation teams at the JPL in Pasadena. Right to left are: Morgan Burks (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory); Patrick Peplowski, John Goldsten and David Lawrence (all from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory); and Maria De Soria Santacruz Pich and Nora Alonge (NASA JPL).
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LLNL gamma-ray sensor has the best resolution

An instrument designed and built by LLNL researchers is the highest-resolution gamma ray sensor that has ever flown in space.

Developed by LLNL and Portland State University researchers, innovative matrix-free solvers offer performance gains for complex multiphysics simulations.
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Matrix unloaded: Graphics processor-boosted solvers for diffusion physics

LLNL mathematician and collaborators publish a recent paper introducing specialized solvers optimized for simulations running on graphics processing unit (GPU)–based supercomputers.