Breakthroughs Advance U.S. Competitiveness
Commentary by Bruce E. Warner
Computational Innovation Boosts Manufacturing
U.S. manufacturers partner with Livermore and other national laboratories to accelerate innovation and increase efficiencies through high-performance computing.
Novel Scintillator Improves X-Ray Imaging
An innovative transparent ceramic scintillator vastly improves contrast for three-dimensional imaging of manufactured parts.
Toolset Promotes Carbon-Capture Solution
A powerful suite of computational tools and models accelerates the development of more effective carbon-capture technologies.
Fabricating the World's Thinnest Plastic Wrap
A novel membrane manufacturing process produces freestanding polymer films less than 10 nanometers thick.
Revealing the Presence of Hidden Nuclear Materials
This award finalist develops solution-grown stilbene crystals to detect the unique signatures of high-energy neutrons emitted from uranium and plutonium.
LION Hunts for Nuclear Forensics Clues
A new laboratory at Livermore uses resonance ionization mass spectrometry to identify nuclear materials and determine their origins.