Research Highlights March 2018 BIG IDEAS for Tiny Targets F ROM the 10-story-high building that could hold 3 football fields (each 48.5 meters by 109.1 meters) to the 130,000-kilogram target chamber that brings together 192 laser beams, nearly everything about Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) is gigantic—except the targets themselves ...

Research Highlights S&TR June 2015 Just Passing Through Bridging the Communications Gap between Cells and Circuits N ATURE and scientists have both come up with clever and efficient ways to move information around in their respective systems. Whereas living cells use ion fluxes moving across cell membranes to transmit instructions and other information, electronic devices, such as computers, use electrons moving through wires ...

Patents Threaded Insert for Compact Cryogenic-Capable Pressure Vessels Francisco Espinosa-Loza Timothy O Ross Vernon A Switzer Salvador M Aceves Nicholas J Killingsworth Elias Ledesma-Orozco US Patent 9057483 B2 June 16 2015 High Strain Rate Method of Producing Optimized Fracture Networks in Reservoirs ...

Basic Energy Sciences at LLNL LLNLs Basic Energy Sciences BES program seeks to understand predict and ultimately control matter and energy at the electronic atomic and molecular levels Office of Science supported research at LLNL includes efforts in the areas of nanoscale biomaterials science mesoscale ...

Back Ask LLNLs second skin creators anything Download Image Lab scientists from left Ngo Bui Eric Meshot Kuang Jen Wu and Francesco Fornasiero will talk about their role in developing a highly breathable smart material intended to protect soldiers from chemical and biological threats while preventing ...

Sept 7 2016 Lab scientists from left Ngo Bui Eric Meshot Kuang Jen Wu and Francesco Fornasiero will talk about their role in developing a highly breathable smart material intended to protect soldiers from chemical and biological threats while preventing heat stress and exhaustion Download Image Previous ...

Sept 7 2016 Lab scientists from left Ngo Bui Eric Meshot Kuang Jen Wu and Francesco Fornasiero will talk about their role in developing a highly breathable smart material intended to protect soldiers from chemical and biological threats while preventing heat stress and exhaustion Download Image Previous ...

Global Security Reducing the threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction and enhancing global stability LLNL develops innovative advanced technologies to help the government anticipate identify and address global security threats By applying scientific and engineering expertise in chemical ...

Energy and Environment Using science and technology to provide clean abundant energy protect the environment and understand and mitigate climate change Laboratory researchers apply leading-edge capabilities to develop efficient and environmentally benign energy technologies and to investigate the processes ...