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| Project Title | Project Code | Principal Investigator | Research Category | Project Type | Project Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climbing over Energy Barriers: A New Paradigm for Accelerating Kinetics | 19-DR-001 | Christine Orme | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Advanced Manufacturing of Net-Shape Leading Edge Geometries for Hypersonic Flight | 19-DR-002 | James Cahill | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Understanding Material Strength Variabilities and Uncertainties for Component Qualification | 17-ERD-029 | Jeffrey Florando | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Rapid Closed-Loop Control of Additive Manufacturing with Machine Learning | 17-ERD-037 | Brian Giera | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Final |
| In Situ Diagnostics for Accelerated Fabrication and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials | 17-ERD-042 | Jonathan Lee | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Functional Photoresists for Energy Applications | 18-ERD-004 | Juergen Biener | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Porous Metals via Ice Templating | 18-ERD-032 | Michael Bagge-Hansen | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Influence of Process Parameters and Alloy Composition on Crack Mitigation in Selective Laser Melting | 18-ERD-057 | Bey Vrancken | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Transforming Living Materials into Chemical Reactors | 19-ERD-005 | Fang Qian | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Acoustic and Electromagnetic Characterization for Accelerated Development of Additive Manufacturing | 19-ERD-008 | David Stobbe | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Advanced Photopolymer Materials Engineering for Multiscale Additive Fabrication | 19-ERD-012 | Maxim Shusteff | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Materials with Embedded Microstructural Logic | 19-ERD-018 | Robert Panas | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Glass Inks for Three-Dimensional Printed Fiber Preforms and Telescope Optics | 19-ERD-020 | Rebecca Dylla-Spears | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Imaging via X-Ray Reflectometry and Phase-Contrast Computed Tomography | 19-ERD-022 | Kadri Aditya Mohan | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Exascale-Ready Modeling to Predict Recrystallization in High-Temperature Materials | 19-ERD-026 | Tomas Oppelstrup | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Characterizing Materials for Quantum Computing | 20-ERD-010 | Yaniv Rosen | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Laser Processing of Solid-State Lithium Batteries | 20-ERD-018 | Jianchao Ye | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| High Energy Density Supercapacitors | 20-ERD-019 | Marcus Worsley | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Super-Strong, Micrometer-Thin Carbon Nanotube Yarns | 20-ERD-023 | Xavier Lepro Chavez | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Ultrathick Boron Carbide Coatings | 20-ERD-029 | Sergei Kucheyev | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Accelerated Multi-Modal Manufacturing Optimization | 20-ERD-036 | Adam Jaycox | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Mid- and High-Z Doping of High Purity, Density Tunable Amorphous Carbon Films on Complex Geometries | 20-ERD-042 | Steven Falabella | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Developing an Understanding and Control of Electrochemical Deposition Processes for Functional Coatings on Complex Three-Dimensionally Printed Substrates | 20-ERD-056 | Nikola Dudukovic | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Magnetostrictive Materials for Enhanced Sensors and Electronic Components | 20-ERD-059 | Scott McCall | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing In-Process Monitoring and Optimization Using Thermionic Emission Detection | 19-FS-037 | Aiden Martin | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Sculpting Non-Machinable Porous Materials | 20-FS-004 | Leonardus Bimo Bayu Aji | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Parallel Two-Photon Lithography Using a Metalens Array | 20-FS-032 | Xiaoxing Xia | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Shape Changing of Responsive Elastomer Structures | 20-FS-035 | Caitlyn Cook | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Dual Wavelength Negative Imaging Digital Light Processing Stereo Lithographic Apparatus | 20-FS-042 | Bryan Moran | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Unconventional Superconductivity in a Focused-Ion-Beam-Decorated Topological Insulator | 19-LW-040 | Dongxia Qu | Quantum Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Development of Additive-Manufacturing Inks with Embedded Electronics for Programmable Matter | 19-LW-056 | Maxwell Murialdo | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Hydrogen Embrittlement-Resistant High-Entropy Alloys with High Strength and Ductility | 20-LW-015 | Shinyoung Kang | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Toward Wearable Artificial Intelligence: Flexible Nanocrystal Memristors That Mimic Multilevel Synaptic Functions | 20-LW-018 | Xiaojie Xu | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Pattern Formation in Concurrent Multiscale Simulation: A Breakthrough in Understanding Metal Behavior | 20-LW-027 | Jaehyun Cho | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Development of Magnetic Nanostructures and Their Composites for Efficacious and Lightweight Millimeter Wave Absorbers | 20-LW-039 | Jinkyu Han | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Developing and Characterizing New Tools for Actinide Processing Science | 18-SI-001 | Jason Jeffries | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Strategic Initiative | Final |
| A New Science-Based Paradigm Enabling Microstructure-Tailored Additive Manufacturing of Metals | 18-SI-003 | Manyalibo Matthews | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Accelerating Feedstock Optimization Using Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Data Analysis Techniques | 19-SI-001 | Thomas Han | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Advanced Quantitative Metrology and Characterization for Manufacturing | 20-SI-001 | Joseph Tringe | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Predicting and Controlling Corrosion | 20-SI-004 | Brandon Wood | Advanced Materials and Manufacturing | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Microbial Characterization of Combat-Patient Wounds to Improve Healing | 17-ERD-031 | Nicholas Be | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Longitudinal Monitoring of Ribonucleic Acid Content of a Live Cell with a Nanotube Pore Interface | 18-ERD-011 | Aleksandr Noy | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| A Computational Approach to Improve Prediction of Off-Target Drug Binding Using Membrane Bilayer Effects | 18-ERD-035 | Helgi Ingolfsson | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Stable Isotope Probing and Viromics: Quantifying Virus-Host and Carbon Cycling Dynamics in Soil with Isotope-Targeted Metagenomics | 18-ERD-041 | Steven Blazewicz | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Optical Interconnect for High-Density Neural Signals | 18-ERD-042 | Razi-ul Haque | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Bioprinting Breast Cancer In Situ to Study Cell Communication in Disease Progression | 18-ERD-062 | Claire Robertson | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| A Deep Bayesian Active Learning Framework for Temporal Multimodal Data | 19-ERD-009 | Priyadip Ray | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Delivering Ribonucleic Acid Vaccines Using Nanoparticles | 20-ERD-004 | Nicholas Fischer | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Bioprinting of Engineered Biofilms for Microbial Electrosynthesis | 20-ERD-013 | William Hynes | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Flexible and High-Density Nerve Interface for Peripheral Neuromodulation | 20-ERD-054 | Razi-ul Haque | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Microbiome Controls on Harmful Algal Toxin Production in Lake Erie | 20-ERD-061 | Xavier Mayali | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Elucidating Algal–Bacterial Community Interactions by Tracking Volatile Biomarkers | 19-FS-035 | Matthias Frank | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Metamaterials for Mechanically Directing Cell Phenotype | 19-FS-064 | Karen Dubbin | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Using Microscale Models to Enhance Predictions of Damage to Soft Tissues | 19-FS-070 | Phillip Paul | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Vanishing Neural Probes: Chronic Implants on Resorbable Substrates | 20-FS-008 | Travis Massey | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Synthetic Biology for Nuclear Activity Detection | 20-FS-009 | Dan Park | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Boot Camp Bugs: Microbiomes of US Infantry Trainees | 20-FS-029 | Nicholas Be | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Rapid Detection of Candidates for Vaccines Against Biothreat Agents | 18-LW-039 | Magdalena Franco | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Three-Dimensional Bioprinted Aneurysm for Intervention Modeling Validation | 19-LW-006 | Monica Moya | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Antibacterial Minerals: A Geochemical Approach to Combating Antibiotic Resistance | 19-LW-029 | Keith Morrison | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis: Waging the Arms Race with Superbugs | 19-LW-048 | Brent Segelke | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Using High-Dimensional Omics Data to Identify Therapeutic Strategies for Promoting Tissue Repair and Regeneration | 20-LW-002 | Aimy Sebastian | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Incorporation of Carbon Electrodes on Flexible Microelectrode Arrays | 20-LW-038 | Allison Yorita | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Direct Visualization of Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes by Protein-Mediated Loop Extrusion Using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy | 20-LW-040 | Yuliang Zhang | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Engineered and Instrumented Three-Dimensional Tumor-Immune Model System | 19-SI-003 | Elizabeth Wheeler | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Vaccination on the Fly: The Use of Mosquitoes to Vaccinate Bat Populations That Harbor Human Pathogens | 19-DR-014 | Monica Borucki | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Construction of Genetic Sense-and-Respond Modules to Detect Viral Infection | 18-ERD-034 | Kenneth Overton | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Profiling Neurological Consequences and Susceptible Populations of Chronic Opioid Use | 20-ERD-009 | Heather Enright | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Rapid Computational Identification of Therapeutic Targets for Pathogens | 20-ERD-062 | Jonathan Allen | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Building a Computational and Experimental Rapid Response Pipeline to Counter the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak and Emerging Biothreats | 20-ERD-064 | Magdalena Franco | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Identifying Potential Antiviral Small Molecules Against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 | 20-ERD-065 | Felice Lightstone | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Bioprinting Transgenic Plant Cells for Chemical and Biological Countermeasure Production | 20-FS-001 | Jennifer Knipe | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Quantum Cascade Lasers with Submicrosecond Tuning Speed for the Detection of High Explosives and Chemical Warfare Agents | 20-FS-044 | Jerry Carter | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Engineering Yeast Biosensors for Pathogen Detection | 20-LW-020 | Tek Hyung Lee | Chemical and Biological Countermeasures | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| A Quantitative Methodology for Measuring Cyber Risk to Critical Infrastructure | 17-ERD-117 | Meghan Mcgarry | Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Predictive Modeling of Correlated Noise in Superconducting Circuits | 18-ERD-039 | Vincenzo Lordi | Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Industrial Control Systems Network Mapping and Data Analytics for Cybersecurity | 19-ERD-021 | Brian Kelley | Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Exploration of In-Memory Analytics | 20-ERD-053 | Kristine Monteith | Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Addressing Qubits with a Software-Defined Radio Field Programmable Gate Array | 20-FS-002 | Lisa Poyneer | Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Fo'c'sle: Trustworthy Firmware Updates for Energy Control Systems | 20-FS-019 | Stephen Chapin | Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Learning Neural Activation Manifolds for Secure Artificial Intelligence | 20-FS-020 | Wesam Sakla | Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Compact High Efficiency Electrically Tunable Amplifier (CHEETAh) | 19-DR-015 | Adam Conway | Directed Energy | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Scalable Computational Tools for Predicting Fluid-Structure Interactions in Laser Directed Energy Applications | 19-ERD-015 | Robert Nourgaliev | Directed Energy | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Probabilistic Predictions and Uncertainty Estimation for Radiological and Nuclear Effects Modeling | 17-ERD-045 | Donald Lucas | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Measuring Atmospheric Gas Using Small Satellites | 17-ERD-059 | Vincent Riot | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Advancing Measurements and Understanding of the Rate and Structure of Atmospheric Warming | 18-ERD-054 | Stephen Po-Chedley | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Deeply Rooted: Evaluating Plant Rooting Depth as a Means for Enhanced Soil Carbon Sequestration | 19-ERD-010 | Erin Nuccio | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Interseasonal Prediction of Western United States Snowpack with Deep Learning | 19-ERD-032 | Gemma Anderson | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Improved Seismic Monitoring for National and Energy Security with Earth Models from Full Waveform Inversion | 20-ERD-008 | Arthur Rodgers | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Understanding Urban and Wildland Fire Dynamics | 20-ERD-034 | Jeffrey Mirocha | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Understanding Carbon Accumulation Below Ground and the Role of Nutrients Under Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels | 20-ERD-055 | Cesar Terrer Moreno | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Dating Alluvial Landforms to Understand the Role of Climate in California's Water Supply | 19-LW-036 | Alan Hidy | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Selective Removal of Ions from Aqueous Solutions | 18-ERD-024 | Patrick Campbell | Energy and Resource Security | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners for Scalable Simulation of Reservoir Geomechanics and Multiphase Flow | 18-ERD-027 | Joshua White | Energy and Resource Security | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Improving Durability in the Next Generation of Photovoltaic Materials Through Discovery and Mitigation of Interface-Based Degradation Mechanisms | 20-ERD-060 | Jonathan Lee | Energy and Resource Security | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Hot Plasma Etching of Gallium Nitride | 19-FS-005 | Sara Harrison | Energy and Resource Security | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Enabling Optimized Charging of Electric Vehicles in Mobility Services | 19-FS-030 | Ruben Glatt | Energy and Resource Security | Feasibility Study | Final |
| New Experiment–Theory Capability for Atomic-Level Imaging of Interfaces in Solid-State Batteries | 19-FS-056 | Liwen Wan | Energy and Resource Security | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Development of Operando Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Capabilities for Solid-State Battery Research | 20-FS-012 | Maxwell Marple | Energy and Resource Security | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Functional Metal Coatings on Three-Dimensional Substrates | 20-FS-021 | Monika Biener | Energy and Resource Security | Feasibility Study | Final |
| High-Flux Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia in Ionic Liquid | 20-FS-022 | Maira Ceron Hernandez | Energy and Resource Security | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Removal from Water by Plasmonic-Photocatalysis | 20-FS-049 | Allan Chang | Energy and Resource Security | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Manufacturing Molecules for the Carbon Economy | 19-SI-005 | Eric Duoss | Energy and Resource Security | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Plasma Amplifiers to Enable Dramatic Increases in Laser Power and Energy to Access New Physical Processes | 19-DR-011 | Patrick Poole | High-Energy-Density Science | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Exploring Laser-Produced Relativistic Pair Plasma Jets | 17-ERD-010 | Hui Chen | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Foams in Hohlraums | 17-ERD-118 | Ogden Jones | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Next-Generation Hohlraums for High Coupling Efficiency | 17-ERD-119 | Peter Amendt | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Accurate Temperature Determination from X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Absorption Measurements | 18-ERD-001 | Federica Coppari | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Simulating Magnetized Particle Dynamics in Z-Pinch Plasmas | 18-ERD-007 | Mikhail Dorf | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Probing Liquid Phases and f-Electron Systems at the Dynamic Compression Sector | 18-ERD-012 | Richard Briggs | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| X-Ray Optics Solutions for Studying Mesoscale Science | 18-ERD-014 | Stefan Hau-Riege | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Direct Measurement of Mass-Temperature Distributions in the Core of Implosions on the National Ignition Facility | 18-ERD-015 | Daniel Thorn | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Quantum Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Electronic Transport in Nonlinear Regimes | 18-ERD-031 | Alfredo Correa Tedesco | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Pressure Ionization in Ultrahigh-Density Plasmas | 18-ERD-033 | Tilo Doeppner | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Metal Ejecta: Transport, Interaction, and Recollection | 18-ERD-060 | Alison Saunders | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Imaging Dynamics of Defects Far from Equilibrium | 18-ERD-063 | Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Unraveling the Physics and Chemistry of Water-Rich Mixtures at Extreme Pressures and Temperatures | 19-ERD-031 | Marius Millot | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Laser-Plasma Interactions in Magnetized Environments | 19-ERD-038 | Yuan Shi | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Using Nano-Structured Targets and Ultra-Intense Lasers for Nuclear Science and Source Development | 20-ERD-026 | Gary Grim | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Plasma Transport at the Nexus of Measurement and Modeling | 20-ERD-035 | Robert Rudd | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Scalable and Accurate Simulation of Magnetized Plasmas | 20-ERD-038 | Ilon Joseph | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Tailored Particle Sources Driven by Precision-Shaped Short-Pulse Laser Pulses | 20-ERD-048 | Derek Mariscal | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Behavior and Utility of Flow or Turbulence in Compressing Plasma | 20-ERD-058 | Seth Davidovits | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Development of Multilayer Laue Lenses for 25 Kilo-Electronvolt X-Ray Imaging | 19-FS-044 | Bernard Kozioziemski | High-Energy-Density Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| New Design for Low-Mode Asymmetry Mitigation in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions | 19-FS-061 | Andrea Kritcher | High-Energy-Density Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Development of Beryllium Carbide Capsules for Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions | 19-FS-067 | Abbas Nikroo | High-Energy-Density Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Quantum Leap for Fusion Energy Sciences | 19-FS-072 | Ilon Joseph | High-Energy-Density Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Generating Extreme Magnetic Fields by Engineering Short-Pulse Laser Targets | 20-FS-013 | Mark Sherlock | High-Energy-Density Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Development of Secondary Toroidal Diamond Anvil Cell Gaskets for Highly Compressible Low-Z Sample Containment at Pressures Above 4 Megabars | 20-FS-028 | Earl O'Bannon | High-Energy-Density Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Capturing a New State of Matter: Relativistic Electron-Positron Plasma | 20-LW-021 | Hui Chen | High-Energy-Density Science | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Establishing a Laser-Driven Megaelectronvolt X-Ray and Neutron Radiographic Capability | 19-SI-002 | Andrew Mackinnon | High-Energy-Density Science | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Magnetically Assisted Ignition | 20-SI-002 | John Moody | High-Energy-Density Science | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Uncertainty Quantification and Experimental Design Using a Quantitative Forward Model for Kinematic X-Ray Diffraction | 20-ERD-044 | Joel Bernier | High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Imaging of Defects in Polymer Structures Using Water as a Detection Marker: The Search for Appropriate Illumination Sources and Signal Processing Methods | 20-FS-006 | Mihail Bora | High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Metal-Phthalocyanine Superlattices: Exploring Quantum Devices as a New Paradigm for Sensing Applications and Information Storage | 19-LW-028 | Alexander Baker | High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Unlocking the Mysteries of High-Explosive Science | 18-SI-004 | Lara Leininger | High-Explosives Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Hypothesis Testing via Artificial Intelligence: Generating Physically Interpretable Models of Scientific Data with Machine Learning | 19-DR-003 | Brenden Petersen | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Nuclear Dynamics on a Quantum Chip | 19-DR-005 | Sofia Quaglioni | Quantum Science and Technology | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Beating Monte Carlo: The Polynomial Method in Lattice Problems | 19-DR-013 | Christian Scullard | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Simulations of Interpenetrating Plasmas | 17-ERD-081 | Debojyoti Ghosh | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| High-Order Finite Elements for Thermal Radiative Transfer on Curved Meshes | 18-ERD-002 | Terry Haut | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| XPlacer: Extensible and Portable Optimizations of Data Placement in Memory | 18-ERD-006 | Chunhua Liao | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Deep Multitask Learning for Predictive Oncology | 18-ERD-017 | Andre Goncalves | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Methods for Explainable Artificial Intelligence | 18-ERD-021 | Terrell Mundhenk | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| The Development of High-Order Interface Tracking Schemes for the Simulation of Multiphase Flows | 18-ERD-053 | Bryce Campbell | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Heterogeneous Computing Elements: A Quantitative Evaluation | 19-ERD-004 | Maya Gokhale | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Next Generation Machine Learning | 19-ERD-007 | Peer-Timo Bremer | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Expanding Control of Quantum Processor Units | 19-ERD-013 | Jonathan DuBois | Quantum Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Scalable Multilevel Training of Large Neural Networks | 19-ERD-019 | Colin Ponce | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Advanced Physics Models for Particle-to-Particle Interactions | 19-ERD-025 | Kambiz Salari | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| High-Performance Parallel Simulations for Whole-Cell Modeling | 19-ERD-030 | Ali Navid | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Automatic Design of Transport Systems Through Topology Optimization on Adaptively Refined Computational Grids | 19-ERD-035 | Victor Beck | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Optimal High-Order Solvers | 20-ERD-002 | Andrew Barker | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Safe and Trustworthy Machine Learning | 20-ERD-014 | Bhavya Kailkhura | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Modeling Complex Behavior of Lattices to Enable Multiscale Design | 20-ERD-020 | Seth Watts | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Materials Response Under Hypersonic Flow Conditions Probed by Multimodal Diagnostics in a Benchtop Wind Tunnel | 20-ERD-027 | Selim Elhadj | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Scalable Quantum Optimal Control | 20-ERD-028 | N. Anders Petersson | Quantum Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Active Learning for Rapid Design of Vaccines and Antibodies | 20-ERD-032 | Thomas Desautels | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Robust Control of Scientific Simulations with Deep Reinforcement Learning | 20-ERD-033 | Daniel Faissol | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Approximate High-Performance Computing: A Fast and Energy-Efficient Computing Paradigm in the Post-Moore Era | 20-ERD-043 | Harshitha Gopalakrishnan Menon | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Probabilistic Models for Dynamic Hypergraphs with Content | 20-ERD-049 | Grant Boquet | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Floating Point Reproducibility for Accelerator-Based Systems | 20-FS-005 | Ignacio Laguna Peralta | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Nonlinear Manifold-Based Reduced Order Models | 20-FS-007 | Youngsoo Choi | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Machine Learning-Driven Dynamic Four-Dimensional X-Ray Computed Tomography Reconstruction | 20-FS-010 | Hyojin Kim | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Optimizing Performance Through Parallelism-Aware Compilation | 20-FS-015 | Giorgis Georgakoudis | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| High-Fidelity, Scalable Quantum Qubit Control Signal Generation | 20-FS-017 | Apurva Gowda | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Nonlinear Spatial Discretization Using Sparse Grids | 20-FS-018 | John Loffeld | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Measuring the Interpolation Quality of Trained Neural Networks | 20-FS-034 | Andrew Gillette | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Scalable Approximate Graph Clustering | 20-FS-037 | Geoffrey Sanders | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Active Control of Turbulent Flows through Deep Learning | 20-FS-039 | Simon Lapointe | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Persistent Concurrent Data Structures | 20-FS-040 | Peter Pirkelbauer | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Accelerated and Disaggregated Cognitive Simulation | 20-FS-041 | Brian Van Essen | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| MADSTARE: Modeling and Analysis for Data-Starved or Ambiguous Environments | 19-SI-004 | Michael Schneider | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Decentralized Autonomous Networks for Cooperative Estimation | 20-SI-005 | Ryan Goldhahn | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Thulium-Doped Yttrium Lithium Fluoride High-Energy Laser Demonstrator | 19-DR-009 | Thomas Spinka | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Anti-Reflective Meta-Surfaces (ARMS) for High-Power Lasers | 18-ERD-005 | Eyal Feigenbaum | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Arbitrary Control and Characterization of Laser Waveforms and Interactions at Picosecond Resolution over Long Record Lengths | 18-ERD-029 | Ryan Muir | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Energy Scaling of Thin-Disk Lasers | 18-ERD-038 | Thomas Spinka | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Plasma Photonics: Manipulating Light Using Plasmas | 18-ERD-046 | Pierre Michel | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Germanium Photodiode Arrays for Hard X-Ray Imaging | 19-ERD-001 | Arthur Carpenter | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Gestalt Optics: Three-Dimensional Transparent Ceramics | 19-ERD-006 | Zachary Seeley | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| The Physics of Confined Laser Ablation and Its Applications | 19-ERD-027 | Wesley Keller | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Photonic Transceivers for Secure Radio Frequency Communications and Radar | 19-ERD-039 | Jason Chou | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Freeform Optics | 20-ERD-003 | Tayyab Suratwala | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| High-Energy Advanced Thermal Performance | 20-ERD-006 | Emily Link | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Glass Preforms for Next-Generation Fiber Lasers | 20-ERD-012 | Andrew Lange | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Defects Suppression in Process-Optimized High Power and Energy Multilayer Dielectric Coated Optics | 20-ERD-024 | Siping Qiu | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Next-Generation Beam Quality for Deployed Laser Systems | 20-ERD-046 | Stephen Ammons | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Ultrafast Plasma Optics for High-Power Coherent Light Sources | 20-ERD-057 | Matthew Edwards | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Assessment of Laser-Damage Performance of Meta-Surface Material to Enable High-Speed Laser Beam Control | 19-FS-032 | Eyal Feigenbaum | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Time-Resolved Two-Dimensional Streak Camera | 19-FS-073 | Matthew Dayton | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Beam Homogenization of Laser Drivers for High-Energy, Large-Aperture Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification | 20-FS-011 | Brendan Reagan | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Extending the Reach of Extreme Ultraviolet Instruments: A New Method for Measuring the Refractive Index of Materials | 20-FS-026 | Catherine Burcklen | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Pioneering Stable Isotope Signatures of Nuclear Proliferation | 18-ERD-016 | Jennifer Matzel | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Modeling Nuclear Cloud Rise and Fallout in Complex Environments | 18-ERD-049 | Katherine Lundquist | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Deployable, Automated Chemistry-on-a-Chip Platform for Nuclear Forensics | 19-ERD-016 | Narek Gharibyan | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Narcissus-Enabled Compact Thermal Hyperspectral Imager | 20-ERD-005 | Jay Bixler | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Developing Compositional Control During Additive Manufacturing of Surrogate Debris Reference Materials and Microanalytical Standards | 20-ERD-021 | Tashi Parsons-Davis | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Short-Pulse Interrogation for Detection of Special Nuclear Materials | 19-FS-034 | Yuri Podpaly | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Probing Photon Fusion for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Using Proton Tagging | 18-LW-061 | Finn Rebassoo | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Lab-Wide | Final |
| The Next Frontiers in Rare-Event Detection for Science and Security | 20-SI-003 | Nathaniel Bowden | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Quantifying Uncertainties of Microscopic Nuclear Theories | 18-ERD-008 | Nicolas Schunck | Nuclear Weapons Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Flash X-Ray Computed Tomography for Three-Dimensional Characterization of Explosive Performance | 18-ERD-052 | Kyle Champley | Nuclear Weapons Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Fission Experiments in Laser-Generated Plasmas | 20-ERD-031 | Alex Zylstra | Nuclear Weapons Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Development of a Multidimensional, Holographic Velocity Interferometer System | 20-ERD-050 | Peter Celliers | Nuclear Weapons Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Sirius Mini: A Prototype Disruptive Accelerator Architecture for Next-Generation Inertial Confinement Fusion Systems | 20-ERD-052 | Keith Lechien | Nuclear Weapons Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Examining an On-the-Fly Movable Boundary Capability for Simulations of Unsteady High-Speed Aerothermodynamic Flows | 19-FS-045 | Gregory Burton | Nuclear Weapons Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Learning-Based Predictive Models: A New Approach to Integrating Large-Scale Simulations and Experiments | 18-SI-002 | Brian Spears | Nuclear Weapons Science | Strategic Initiative | Final |
| Developing Photonuclear Experimental Capabilities for Nuclear Science and Security | 18-ERD-013 | Robert Casperson | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Final |
| The Next Breakthroughs in Neutrino Physics | 18-ERD-028 | Michael Heffner | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Microresonators for Compact Optical Sensors | 19-ERD-002 | Tiziana Bond | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Development of Novel Ligand-Based Systems to Study the Chemical Properties of the Transactinides | 19-ERD-003 | John Despotopulos | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Beta Decay at the Limits of Nuclear Stability: Integrating Ab Initio Calculations and Kinematically Complete Measurements | 19-ERD-011 | Aaron Gallant | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Nuclear Reaction Theory for Astrophysics and Laboratory Applications | 19-ERD-017 | Jutta Escher | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Investigating the Site of the Weak Rapid Neutron Capture Process | 19-ERD-036 | Wei Jia Ong | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Addressing Unresolved Questions About the Solar System with New Lunar Samples from the Apollo Missions | 20-ERD-001 | Gregory Brennecka | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Deciphering Fingerprints of Stellar Nucleosynthesis Through Nuclear Reaction Rate Measurements and Isotopic Analyses of Stardust | 20-ERD-030 | Brett Isselhardt | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| The Nuclear Science of Asteroid 16 Psyche | 20-ERD-039 | Morgan Burks | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Probing the Structure of a Perfect Liquid Using Jets and Machine Learning | 20-ERD-041 | Aaron Angerami | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Nuclear Analytics: Enabling New Multimodal Approaches to Nuclear Threat Detection | 20-ERD-045 | Jonathan Dreyer | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Establishing Hands-On Astrophysics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | 19-FS-028 | Reto Trappitsch | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Utilizing Radioactive Isotopes Harvested at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams for Neutron-Reaction Measurements | 20-FS-024 | Richard Hughes | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Feasibility Study | Continuing |
| Connecting Nuclear Structure to Stellar Astrophysics: Neutron Skin in Tin Isotopes | 19-LW-004 | Jack Silano | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Using Moderately Volatile Elements to Understand the Origin of the Earth-Moon System | 19-LW-027 | Josh Wimpenny | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Proliferation of Interstellar Plutonium into the Solar System | 19-LW-033 | Reto Trappitsch | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Discovering the Nature of Neutrinos: How Nuclear Theory Will Advance This Grand Endeavor | 19-LW-039 | Kyle Wendt | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Using Isotope Probing of Microbe-to-Microbe Interactions to Determine the Fate of Carbon and Impacts on Climate Change | 19-LW-044 | Ty Samo | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Constraining the Origin of Earth’s Water with Isotope Tracers in Astromaterials | 19-LW-046 | Erik Oerter | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Two Nucleon Interactions and Their Effect on the Visible Universe and the Dark Universe | 20-LW-001 | Pavlos Vranas | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| A Search for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter | 20-LW-006 | Stephan Friedrich | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Constraining the Habitability of Mars When Water Flowed on Its Surface | 20-LW-008 | William Cassata | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Elusive Actinium: A First Glimpse into the Coordination Chemistry of Element 89 | 20-LW-017 | Gauthier Deblonde | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Redefining the Geologic Timescale of the Solar System by Accurately Determining the Half-Life of Samarium-146 with Magnetic Microcalorimeters | 20-LW-024 | Geonbo Kim | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Understanding Angular Momentum in Nuclear Fission | 20-LW-045 | Aaron Gallant | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Nuclear Reaction Theory in the Precision Era: Probing New Physics in the Early Universe | 20-LW-046 | Konstantinos Kravvaris | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Ultrahigh-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy Using Cyclotron Radiation Emission | 20-LW-056 | Nathan Woollett | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Identifying the Influence of Environmental Effects on Post-Detonation Chemistry and Debris Formation | 20-SI-006 | Kimberly Knight | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| A Search for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Dark Matter | 17-ERD-120 | William Dawson | Space Security | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Integration of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology into Parallel Discrete Event Simulator Framework | 18-ERD-025 | James Leek | Space Security | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Tunable Optoelectronic Materials for Next-Generation Infrared Detectors | 19-ERD-029 | Anna Hiszpanski | Space Security | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Observing Atmospheric Gravity Waves from Space | 20-ERD-007 | Matthew Horsley | Space Security | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Revealing the Physics of the Hot and Energetic Universe via Single-Photon-Counting Advanced X-Ray Microcalorimeter Systems | 20-ERD-022 | Megan Eckart | Space Security | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Asteroid Science in the Era of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope | 20-ERD-025 | Nathan Golovich | Space Security | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
