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FY2023

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Research Category Project Type Project Status
Enabling Multi-Material Metal Additive Manufacturing Builds through Electrostatic Powder Spreading 22-ERD-018 Eric Elton Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Water Security in a Snow-Free Future: The Science of Subsurface Water Storage 23-ERD-039 Ate Visser Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Investigation into High-Throughput Plastic Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Capsule Fabrication Using Volumetric Additive Manufacturing 23-FS-050 Martin De Beer Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Feasibility Study Continuing
Nuclear Experiments from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Supercomputing Simulations 23-ERD-004 Pavlos Vranas Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Engineering Bacillus Subtilis for Controlled Gaseous Nitrogen Fixation to Reduce Artificial Nitrogen Utilization and Enhance Microbial Community Function 23-LW-014 Cody Madsen Bioscience and Bioengineering Lab-Wide Continuing
Advancing Carbon Cycle Forecasts with Global Models of Soil Chemistry 22-ERD-019 Katerina Georgiou Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Pulsed-Plasma Deposition of Ultrathick Diamond-like Carbon Films on Nonplanar Surfaces 23-ERD-040 Alison Engwall High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Multifunctional Holraums 23-ERD-005 Leonardus Bimo Bayu Aji Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Exploratory Research Continuing
Reconstructing the Birth Environment of the Solar System 23-LW-015 Quinn Shollenberger Earth and Atmospheric Science Lab-Wide Continuing
Additively Manufactured Neodymium-Doped Strontium-Fluoride Ceramic Gain Medium 22-ERD-021 Thomas Rudzik Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Breakthrough Performance with Context Constrained Radiation Measurements 23-ERD-041 Noah Mcferran Nuclear Threat Reduction Exploratory Research Continuing
Investigating the Relationship Between Microstructure and Dynamic Response Using X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers 21-ERD-032 Jon Eggert High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Understanding Spectral Dependence of Laser-induced Damage Precursors in Dielectric Materials 23-ERD-006 Colin Harthcock Lasers and Optical Science and Technology Exploratory Research Continuing
Manipulating the Spin of Nuclei with Nuclear Reactions 23-LW-016 Daniel Hoff Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing
Next-Generation Short-Pulse Laser-Driven Neutron Sources for Multimodal Radiography 22-ERD-022 Gerald Williams Nuclear Weapons Science Exploratory Research Continuing
High Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagrams and Free Energies from First Principles 23-ERD-042 Stanimir Bonev High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Towards Three-Dimensional Neutron Imaging with Light-field Technology 23-FS-053 Felicia Sutanto Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Feasibility Study Continuing
Addressing Key Physics Problems in High-Energy-Density Plasmas with a Novel Kinetic Simulation Capability 23-ERD-007 Justin Angus High-Energy-Density Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Understanding Chemical Kinetics by Operando Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy 23-LW-018 Xiaoxing Xia Accelerated Materials and Manufacturing Lab-Wide Continuing
Large-Scale Shape Optimization with Conformal Meshes 22-ERD-023 Jorge Barrera Cruz High-Performance Computing, Simulation, and Data Science Exploratory Research Continuing