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Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing of Organic Glass Scintillators
Additively Manufactured Multilayer Laser
Advanced Energy Storage Technologies for Extreme Conditions
Advanced Fabrication Techniques of Metal Hydrides for Science and Technology Applications
Advanced In-situ Processes Monitoring Diagnostics and Ex-situ Material Characterization for Laser-based Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes.
An Integrated and Computational Approach to Optimization of Functionally Graded Materials Using Additive Manufacturing
Automated, High-Throughput Screening of Increased Ionic Conductivity Polymer Electrolytes
Building Materials Knowledge Models via Document Network Analysis
Confined Coaxial Powder Extrusion
Control of Self-Propagating Polymer Beams for Integration into Three-Dimensional Printing
Converting Air into Ammonia via Advanced Manufactured Electrochemical Reactors
Developing an Understanding and Control of Electrochemical Deposition Processes for Functional Coatings on Complex Three-Dimensionally Printed Substrates
Development of Metastable High Entropy Alloys for Additive Manufacturing
Dual Wavelength Two-Photon Polymerization
Dual-Energy Phase-Contrast Computed Tomography to Improve Material Discrimination
Enabling Multi-Material Metal Additive Manufacturing Builds through Electrostatic Powder Spreading
Explore Flow-Directed Electrolyte Transport in the Development of Fast-Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries
Freeform Three-Dimensional Microstructures Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Gas Bubble Management for Electrochemical Systems
High-Efficiency Biomimetic Three-Dimensional Membranes
Hyper-Doping of Boron Carbide Ablators
In-Situ Quantitative Monitoring and Feedback Control for High-Sensitivity and High-Fidelity Manufacturing
Investigation into High-Throughput Plastic Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Capsule Fabrication Using Volumetric Additive Manufacturing
Joinery Of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics Inspired by Nature
Large-Scale, Two-Photon, Three-Dimensional Printing Enabled by Metaoptics
Machine Learning Design of Single-Atom Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Magnetostrictive Materials for Enhanced Sensors and Electronic Components
Materials for Energy Management across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Modular Autonomous Experimentation for Biological Applications
Multifunctional Holraums
Nanoscale Precision Milling with Ion Beams
Non-Destructive Testing Using Millimeter-Wave Radar Imaging
Novel Multi-Phase Fluidic Platforms for Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Forensics
PowderJet is an Agile System for High Quality Metal Powder Production
Predictive Atomistic Materials Simulations with Uncertainty Quantification
Radiation Defect Engineering in Two-Dimensional Nanomembranes
Rapid Design to Deployment of Tailored Alloys
Shape Changing of Responsive Elastomer Structures
Surface-Architected Smart Cellular Fluidics for Directional Liquid Transport
Sustainable and Chemically Recyclable Photopolymers for Three-Dimensional Printing
The Science of Scaleup: Accelerated Scaling of Materials and Manufacturing Solutions
Ultra-Wide Bandgap Field-Emission Photocathodes for High-Power, High-Frequency Electronics
Understanding Chemical Kinetics by Operando Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy
Understanding Subsurface Behavior and Defect Formation During Laser Material Interactions Via Coupled In Situ X-Ray and Optical Probes
Virtual Inspection of Advanced Manufacturing via Process-Scale Digital Twins
Volumetric Additive Manufacturing of Gradient Composition Glass
Biological and Chemical Countermeasures
Antimicrobials for Multi-Drug Resistant Infections for BioResilience, Advancement
Building a Computational and Experimental Rapid Response Pipeline to Counter the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak and Emerging Biothreats
Climate-Driven Changes to Host Nutrition May Impact the Emergence and Phenotype of Viral Variants
Expanding the Domain of Applicability of Machine Learning Models with Limited Data
Next Generation Biological Surrogate Particles to Test Aerosol Dispersion
Protective Host-targeted Engineered Gene Therapeutics
Rapid Computational Identification of Therapeutic Targets for Pathogens
Bioscience and Bioengineering
Microbiome Controls on Harmful Algal Toxin Production in Lake Erie
Adverse Neurological Effects of Wildfire Smoke
Battling Long Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the Brain: Elucidating Mechanisms of Neural Dysfunction
Biological Additive Manufacturing Capabilities for Enabling Rapid Response to Emerging Pathogens
Carbon-14-Labeled Microbes to Track the Fates of Microbial Metabolites: A Potential Technical Approach to Define the Gut-Brain Axis in Animal Models
Controlling Access to the Brain: Fine-Tuning Permeability of the Blood-Brain Barrier
Cure the Incurable: Supercharged Immune Cells to Fight Disease
Development of Advanced Terahertz Chiroptical Spectroscopy for Biological and Chemical Security
Eavesdropping on Cancer: Developing Blood-Based Exosome Diagnostics
Engineered Human Vascular Models to Study Endothelial Dysfunction in Infectious Disease
Engineering Bacillus Subtilis for Controlled Gaseous Nitrogen Fixation to Reduce Artificial Nitrogen Utilization and Enhance Microbial Community Function
Engineering a Biosynthetic Pathway for Glycolonitrile, a High Energy Material Precursor
Fiery Effects of Wildfire Smoke Inhalation
Fungal Pneumonia: Understanding Immune Vulnerabilities that Cause Valley Fever
Graph-Based Modeling for Detection and Tracking of Sarin-Surrogate-Induced Neurotoxicity using a human-relevant in vitro brain model
Harnessing Organic Phosphorus Scavengers to Mitigate Nutrient Scarcity
High-Resolution Bioprinted Hierarchical Lung Tissue Model for Studying Respiratory Threats
Host-Directed, Bioelectronic Immunomodulation for Protection Against Emerging Pathogens
Investigating Fluorescent Amino Acids with Entangled Photon Pair Absorption
Invisible Organ: The Next Level of Human Health and Resilience
Linking Protein Phase Separation to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Pathology with Physical Simulations
Microbial Recycling of Plastic-Polymer-Bonded Rare Earth Magnets
Modulating Guanosine Triphosphate Hydrolysis Provides Novel Therapeutic Option to Treat Cancer and Bacterial Infections
Multi-Enzyme and Cofactor Co-Localization for Cell-Free Biocatalysis
Next Generation Dialysis via Exploitation of Novel Fast Diffusion through Nanoscale Pores
Rapid Fabrication of Engineered Gradient Tissue Scaffolds Using Cell-Embedded Microbeads
Rapid T Cell Engineering to Counter Emerging Threats
Revealing Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis Through Multiscale Dynamic Imaging
Single-atom-catalyst membranes for chem/bio protection
Towards Production of an Artificial Chloroplast Containing Cell
Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience
FUNPAC: Firmware Updates Need Proof-Accompanied Code
Project Rosetta Stone
ThornedThymus: An Adaptive Immune System for the Software Supply Chain
Watching the Watchers with Verified Formal Assurance Tools
Directed Energy
Evaluating Epsilon Iron Oxide for Radio Frequency Pulse Generation
Foundational Advances in Refractive Index Control for Optical Fibers
Gallium Arsenide Semiconductor Opening Switches for Pulsed Power Systems
Improving Capacitors and High-fluence Mirrors with Nanoscale Interface Engineering
Integration of Ultrawide Bandgap Photoconducting Semiconductor Switches into High-Voltage, High-Current Pulser Systems
Radiofrequency Testing
Robust Four-Dimensional Imaging Through Structured Illumination Plenoptics
Wireless Coordination for Distributed High-Power Microwave Sources
Earth and Atmospheric Science
Advancing Carbon Cycle Forecasts with Global Models of Soil Chemistry
Developing a Predictive Physics-Based Modeling Framework for Biomass Combustion in Typical Wildfire Conditions
Electrochemical Upcycling of Waste Cement: High-Performance Cement Production and Air Carbon Dioxide Removal
Enhanced Tunnel Detection with Multiple Sensor Technologies
Enhancing Precipitation Predictions with the Cloud-Associated Parameterizations Testbed using Artificial Intelligence
Feasibility of Using Fourier Neural Operators for Three-Dimensional Elastic Seismic Simulations
Fighting Fire with Fire: Can Traditional Native American Burning Practices Help Reduce Devastating Wildfires and Increase Soil Carbon Storage?
From Microbes to the Earth System – Upscaling Microbial Community Dynamics to Macro-scale Soil Carbon Models
High Accuracy at Low Cost: Using Machine Learning to Emulate the Department of Energy's Global Cloud-Resolving Climate Model
High Altitude Disturbance: An Integrated Experimental and Modeling Approach to Quantifying Turbulence and Aerosols at Hypersonic Flight Height
High Resolution Chronology of the Solar System
Microbe-Mediated Effects of Enhanced Rock Weathering on Soil Organic Carbon Storage
Multiscale Wildfire Simulation Framework and Remote Sensing
Opening the Black Box: Compound-Specific Radiocarbon Analysis to Determine the Drivers of Soil Carbon Persistence
Reconstructing the Birth Environment of the Solar System
Taming the Wild West: Assessing Impacts-Relevant Climate Data Products
Using Novel Measurements of the Diurnal Cycle to Improve the Precision of 40-year Atmospheric Temperature Trends
Energy and Resource Security
Activating Rings in Electrochemical Systems
Advanced Membranes for Electrochemical Technologies
Climate Resilience for National Security
Developing a Predictive Catalysis Framework for Upgrading Sustainable Alcohols
Development Fiber Optic Distributed System for Direct Detection of Subsurface Gases Leakages
Enabling Stable Lithium Metal Anodes for Next-Generation Solid-State Batteries
Encoding High Specificity and Multiplexing in Nanoporous Gas Sensors
Ending Electrolyte Degradation in Aqueous Flow Batteries: Enabling Low-Cost Alternatives for Scalable Grid Storage
Energy Economics Models to Guide Technology Development
Establishing a Design Hub for Tokamak Fusion Reactor Divertor Systems
Exploiting Hydrogen-Induced Phase Transformations for High-Temperature Applications
Forecasting and Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Renewable Energy Resources and Grid Reliability
Gallium Nitride Superjunction Fin Field Effect Transistor
High Entropy Oxide Coating to Mitigate Molten Salt Corrosion in Concentrated Solar Power Systems
Improving Durability in the Next Generation of Photovoltaic Materials Through Discovery and Mitigation of Interface-Based Degradation Mechanisms
In-situ Synthesis of Acid-Resistant Composites for Highly Selective Rare Earth Element Separation
Storing Liquid Air and Thermal Energy for Long-Duration Energy Storage
Systems-To-Atoms Enabling Hydrogen for Climate Security
Transportation Planning Based on Reinforcement Learning Policy Intervention
Ultra-High Water Recovery Desalination with Record Thermodynamic Efficiencies
Forensic Science
Countermeasure Development for Chemical Warfare Agents through Accelerated Molecular Discovery
Developing a Broad-Spectrum f-Block Adsorbing and Rapid Uranium Detecting Swipe
Shooter Alarm System in Enclosed Spaces
High-Energy-Density Science
A Kinetic Transport Model for Magnetized Radiation-Hydrodynamics
A New Data-Driven Standard Solar Model
Advanced Time-Resolved Neutron Time-of-Flight Diagnostics for Burning Plasmas
Bayesian Optimization of High-Intensity, Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Integrating Experiments and Simulations
Breaking Beams: A Kinetic Treatment of the Filamentation and Forward Scatter of Laser Beams in Plasma
Data-Driven Atomic Physics with High Repetition Rate Experiments
Dopants for High Density Carbon
Driving Design with Cognitive Simulation
Exploration of Directly Driven Liquid Deuterium-Tritium Wetted Foam Designs for Burning Plasma and High Neutron Yield Applications
Exploring a Novel Way to Mitigate Surface Damage in Tokamaks
Exploring Innovative High-Gain Ignition Concepts for Inertial Fusion Energy
Extending Equation-of-State Measurements to Gigabar Pressures
Finite Temperature Structure Prediction
Foam Fills for Laser-Plasma Instability Suppression
High Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagrams and Free Energies from First Principles
Optimal Uses of Magnetic Fields for Indirect-Drive Inertial Fusion
Plasma Transport at the Nexus of Measurement and Modeling
Precision Polishing of Spheres via In-situ Process Monitoring and Machine-learning-based Optimization
Pulsed-Plasma Deposition of Ultrathick Diamond-like Carbon Films on Nonplanar Surfaces
Shock Ignition in Indirect Drive: A New Approach to High Fusion Gains
Towards a More Predictive Framework for Laser-Driven Particle Sources through Experimental Data-Informed Machine Learning Models
High-Order General Discrete Ordinates Method Enabling Efficient Deterministic Transport in Hydrodynamic Simulations
High-Rate Carbide Growth by Evaporation
High-Repetition-Rate Diagnostics with Integrated Active Control for a New Paradigm of High-Energy-Density Experiments
Interatomic Potentials: A Framework for Generating Quantum-Accurate Material Models
Investigating the Relationship Between Microstructure and Dynamic Response Using X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers
Measurement of Mutual Diffusion in Warm Dense Matter
High Explosives, Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Science
Contrast or Drift?
Enhanced Effect High Explosive Formulations
Experimentally Interrogating Detonation Chemistry on Sub-Nanosecond to 100-Nanosecond Timescales
Novel Pathways for Storing Energy
Towards Automated Characterization of Heterogeneous Materials: A Case Study Using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Detonation Products
High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science
Accelerating Time-integrators with Surrogate Models
Achieving Peak Performance of High-Performance Computing Applications by Optimizing Parallelism Compilation
Adaptive Sampling for Risk-Averse Design and Optimization
Addressing Key Physics Problems in High-Energy-Density Plasmas with a Novel Kinetic Simulation Capability
An Experimentally Validated Synergistic Membrane Model
Automated Software Integration
Autonomous MultiScale: Embedded Machine Learning for Smart Simulations
Cross-Scale Modeling for Component Scale Simulations
CROSSWALK
Decision Superiority
DENAS: Deep Neuroevolution at Scale
Designing Asynchronous Circuits for Dynamic Machine Learning Adaptation
Exact Representation of Curved Material Interfaces and Boundaries in High-Order Finite Element Simulations
ForwardProp is a Novel Gradient-Free Learning Paradigm for Integrating Deep Neural Nets with Scientific Simulations
High-Performance Computing Force Multiplier: Leading the Way for Extreme-Scale Converged Computing
Improving Extrapolation Behavior in Deep Neural Networks
Interactive Exploratory Graph-Enabled Data Analytics at High-Performance Computing Scales
Knowledge Extraction and Injection Via Concept-Level Reasoning in Scientific Machine Learning
Knowledge-Driven Machine Learning
Large-Scale Shape Optimization with Conformal Meshes
Learning to Solve Faster with Data-Driven Algebraic Multigrid Methods
Leveraging Machine Learning Hardware in Time Integration Algorithms
Localizing and Explaining Performance Defects in Heterogeneous Applications
Multilevel Markov chain Monte Carlo Sampling Methods for Discrete Graph Problems
Next-Generation Implicit Neural Representation for Ill-Posed and Dynamic Computed Tomography Reconstruction
Reliable Decentralized Solvers in Unreliable Computing Environments
Revisiting Consistency Models for High Performance Computing Input/Output: Can We Finally Ditch Portable Operating System Interface?
Scalable Methods for Contact with Optimization
Toward the Intelligent Center for High-Performance Computing
Vectorization of Dynamic Subgraphs via Generative Models
Lasers and Optical Science and Technology
Additively Manufactured Neodymium-Doped Strontium-Fluoride Ceramic Gain Medium
Agile Mixing Platform Engineered for Transient Compositional Printing
Arbitrarily Shaped Energetic Pulses from High Energy Thulium Lasers
Beam-Combined Pulsed Fiber Lasers
Exploring the Cosmos: Enabling One-Thousand Times More Sensitive Spectrographs for Exoplanet Search
Filamentation Sealing Using Dual-Laser Treatment
Glass-Engraved Meta-Optics for High-Power Lasers
High Refractive Index Adhesives for Laser Glass Cladding Applications.
High-Fluence and Radiation-Resistant Gaseous Optics for High-Power Lasers and Inertial Fusion Energy Applications
Laser Amplification with Suppressed Amplified Spontaneous Emission
Laser-Induced Desorption and Redeposition in Fused Silica
Predicting Damage Growth using Multimode Characterization and Machine Learning
Programmable Time-Varying Spectral Encoding for Advanced Control of High-Energy, High-Power Laser Systems
Revisiting the Critical Physics for Passing Energetic Laser Pulses through Air
Robust High-Power Diodes for Next Generation Laser Systems
Robustly Designed Optical Coatings for Cutting-Edge Science
Ultrafast Operation of High-Average-Power, High-Energy Thulium Lasers
Ultrawide Bandgap Laser Addressable Photoconductors
Understanding Spectral Dependence of Laser-induced Damage Precursors in Dielectric Materials
Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology
Breakdown of the Magic Numbers: Unparalleled Opportunities at the New Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Dark Matter Search with Plutonium-241 Beta Decays
Deciphering Fingerprints of Stellar Nucleosynthesis Through Nuclear Reaction Rate Measurements and Isotopic Analyses of Stardust
Development of a Novel Neutron Source for Next-Generation Neutron Scattering Experiments
Do Tetraquarks Exist? Understanding the Nature of the Mysterious Meson Candidate
Expanding Plutonium Inorganic Chemistry
Fission with Exotic Nuclei
How Rapid is the Rapid Neutron Capture Process?
Hunting Sub-gigaelectron-volt Dark Matter with Diamonds and Magnetic Microcalorimeters
Manipulating the Spin of Nuclei with Nuclear Reactions
Nuclear Detective Work in the Early Universe: The Mysterious Origin of Protein-Rich Stable Nuclei
Nuclear Experiments from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Supercomputing Simulations
Predictive Ternary Reactions for Stellar Nucleosynthesis
Putting the Super Back In Supernova
Revealing the Mystery Mode: Understanding the Nuclear Decay Mechanism that Governs Formation of the Universe's Heavy Elements
Reverse-Engineering the Neutron-Nucleus Interaction
Searching for the Edges of the Nuclear Landscape
Target Production Using Additive Manufacturing
The Biggest Bang for Your Buck: Pioneering a Nuclear Science Program Guided by Artificial Intelligence
Towards Three-Dimensional Neutron Imaging with Light-field Technology
Water Security in a Snow-Free Future: The Science of Subsurface Water Storage
Nuclear Threat Reduction
Breakthrough Performance with Context Constrained Radiation Measurements
Cosmic Ray Investigations with National Security Detector Networks
Development of the Uranium-236, Uranium-238 Signature for Pre-Detonation Nuclear Forensics
Infrasound Propagation Simulation in the Upper Atmosphere
Passive Reactor Monitoring with Crystal Damage Measurement
Solid-State Gamma-Ray Detection Using Quantum Dots
Toward a Predictive Exascale-Class Hypersonic Simulation Capability for Damage Lethality Assessment and Weapons Environment Characterization
Nuclear Weapons Science
Accelerated Materials Simulations with Deep Neural Networks
Next-Generation Short-Pulse Laser-Driven Neutron Sources for Multimodal Radiography
Quantum Science and Technology
Improving Quantum Gate Fidelity with Universal Differential Equations
New Qubit Geometries with Minimal Participation of Dielectric in Resonant Modes
Quasiparticle Traps to Improve Coherence of Superconducting Qubit
Radiofrequency-Photonic Control Interface for Scalable, High Speed Quantum Computing
Three-dimensional Ion Traps to Enable Quantum Error Correctable and Scalable Quantum Computing
Topological Materials for Quantum Computing
Science of Materials in Hypersonic Regime Conditions
Advanced Manufacturing of Novel Oxide Composites for Reusable Leading Edges
Bead Fabrication for Extreme Environment Analysis Development
Local Energy Matter Interactions and Materials Response in Hypersonic Environments
Remote Observation of Gravity Waves with Multiple Satellite Data Sets
Space Security
High-Performance Computing-Enabled Detection System for Petabyte Scale Astronomy Surveys
Non-Stationary Gaussian Processes at High-Performance Computing Scales for the Space Domain
Concept Exploration
Proliferated Resilient Economical Half-Meter Space Telescopes
Data On-Demand for Capable Space Domain Awareness Architecture
A New Dark Matter and Early Universe Grand Science Campaign
Demonstration of Next-Generation Electromagnetic Shielding Materials
X-ray Multilayers for Next-Generation Astrophysics Missions
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