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| Project Title | Project Code | Principal Investigator | Research Category | Project Type | Project Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Performance with Context Constrained Radiation Measurements | 23-ERD-041 | Noah Mcferran | Nuclear Threat Reduction | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Gallium Nitride Superjunction Fin Field Effect Transistor | 21-ERD-036 | Noah Allen | Energy and Resource Security | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Developing an Understanding and Control of Electrochemical Deposition Processes for Functional Coatings on Complex Three-Dimensionally Printed Substrates | 20-ERD-056 | Nikola Dudukovic | Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Fission with Exotic Nuclei | 21-ERD-001 | Nicolas Schunck | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Exploratory Research | Final |
| The Biggest Bang for Your Buck: Pioneering a Nuclear Science Program Guided by Artificial Intelligence | 23-SI-004 | Nicholas Scielzo | Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Eavesdropping on Cancer: Developing Blood-Based Exosome Diagnostics | 21-LW-028 | Nicholas Hum | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Understanding Subsurface Behavior and Defect Formation During Laser Material Interactions Via Coupled In Situ X-Ray and Optical Probes | 21-ERD-008 | Nicholas Calta | Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Invisible Organ: The Next Level of Human Health and Resilience | 22-SI-002 | Nicholas Be | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Strategic Initiative | Continuing |
| Project Rosetta Stone | 23-FS-014 | Nathan Smith | Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Resilience | Feasibility Study | Final |
| High-Performance Computing-Enabled Detection System for Petabyte Scale Astronomy Surveys | 23-ERD-044 | Nathan Golovich | Space Science and Security | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Microbial Recycling of Plastic-Polymer-Bonded Rare Earth Magnets | 22-LW-034 | Nancy Merino | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Engineered Human Vascular Models to Study Endothelial Dysfunction in Infectious Disease | 22-LW-088 | Monica Moya | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
| Climate-Driven Changes to Host Nutrition May Impact the Emergence and Phenotype of Viral Variants | 23-ERD-012 | Monica Borucki | Biological and Chemical Countermeasures | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Engineering a Biosynthetic Pathway for Glycolonitrile, a High Energy Material Precursor | 22-ERD-051 | Mimi Yung | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| High-Order General Discrete Ordinates Method Enabling Efficient Deterministic Transport in Hydrodynamic Simulations | 23-ERD-026 | Milan Holec | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Developing a Broad-Spectrum f-Block Adsorbing and Rapid Uranium Detecting Swipe | 23-FS-016 | Michael Ross | Forensic Science | Feasibility Study | Final |
| Foundational Advances in Refractive Index Control for Optical Fibers | 22-ERD-015 | Michael Messerly | Directed Energy | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Extending Equation-of-State Measurements to Gigabar Pressures | 22-ERD-005 | Michael Macdonald | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Continuing |
| Exploring a Novel Way to Mitigate Surface Damage in Tokamaks | 21-ERD-009 | Michael Campanell | High-Energy-Density Science | Exploratory Research | Final |
| Fiery Effects of Wildfire Smoke Inhalation | 22-LW-001 | Melanie Mendez | Bioscience and Bioengineering | Lab-Wide | Final |
