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| Project Title | Project Code | Principal Investigator | Research Category | Project Type | Project Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High-Efficiency Biomimetic Three-Dimensional Membranes | 22-DR-003 | Juergen Biener | Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Laser Amplification with Suppressed Amplified Spontaneous Emission | 22-DR-004 | Stephen Payne | Lasers and Optical Science and Technology | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Battling Long Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the Brain: Elucidating Mechanisms of Neural Dysfunction | 22-DR-007 | Heather Enright | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Designing Asynchronous Circuits for Dynamic Machine Learning Adaptation | 22-DR-009 | Maya Gokhale | High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Shock Ignition in Indirect Drive: A New Approach to High Fusion Gains | 22-DR-010 | Lindsay Perkins | High-Energy-Density Science | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Ultra-High Water Recovery Desalination with Record Thermodynamic Efficiencies | 22-DR-011 | Steven Hawks | Energy and Resource Security | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Ending Electrolyte Degradation in Aqueous Flow Batteries: Enabling Low-Cost Alternatives for Scalable Grid Storage | 22-DR-014 | Buddhinie Jayathilake | Energy and Resource Security | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Converting Air into Ammonia via Advanced Manufactured Electrochemical Reactors | 22-DR-016 | Jeremy Feaster | Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing | Disruptive Research | Continuing |
| Fighting Fire with Fire: Can Traditional Native American Burning Practices Help Reduce Devastating Wildfires and Increase Soil Carbon Storage? | 22-LW-053 | Susan Zimmerman | Earth and Atmospheric Science | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Revealing the Mystery Mode: Understanding the Nuclear Decay Mechanism that Governs Formation of the Universe's Heavy Elements | 23-LW-034 | Anthony Paul Ramirez | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Solid-State Gamma-Ray Detection Using Quantum Dots | 22-LW-054 | Tom Nakotte | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Do Tetraquarks Exist? Understanding the Nature of the Mysterious Meson Candidate | 23-LW-036 | Hoi Sing Cheung | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Next Generation Dialysis via Exploitation of Novel Fast Diffusion through Nanoscale Pores | 22-LW-058 | Steven Buchsbaum | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Dark Matter Search with Plutonium-241 Beta Decays | 23-LW-043 | Geonbo Kim | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Cure the Incurable: Supercharged Immune Cells to Fight Disease | 22-LW-061 | Aimy Sebastian | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Putting the Super Back In Supernova | 23-LW-044 | Maria Anastasiou | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| Eavesdropping on Cancer: Developing Blood-Based Exosome Diagnostics | 21-LW-028 | Nicholas Hum | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Advanced Manufacturing of Novel Oxide Composites for Reusable Leading Edges | 22-LW-076 | Qi Rong Yang | Science of Materials in Hypersonic Regime Conditions | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Breakdown of the Magic Numbers: Unparalleled Opportunities at the New Facility for Rare Isotope Beams | 23-LW-047 | Brenden Longfellow | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Continuing |
| How Rapid is the Rapid Neutron Capture Process? | 21-LW-032 | Richard Hughes | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Lab-Wide | Final |
