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2014 Year in Review NEWSLINE 2014 YEAR IN REVIEW LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY NOTE NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2014 CONTENTS Top 10 science and technology stories of 2014 Top 10 science stories . 2 n 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) built on a 62-year tradition January . 4 of translating basic science into technologies that ensure national security, address February . 7 I pressing real world problems and expand the boundaries of fundamental science. TOP March . 10 April . 13 The top stories of the year are a reflection of the Laboratory’s ability to apply its core May . 16 national security competencies to a broad set of rapidly evolving national and global 10 June . 19 challenges, including: energy, climate change, biodefense and detection, forensic July . 23 science, high performance computing and materials science. August . 26 September . 29 The capabilities developed and applied to this research, such as high performance computing (HPC) and additive October . 32 manufacturing, also serve to enhance the nation’s economic vitality and global competitiveness. November . 36 December . 41 Because evaluating the long-term impact of recent scientific developments on a field of study or science Recognition and Awards . 44 in general is difficult at best, the following advances are not listed in order of scientific importance. These This issue of Newsline was produced by the Public represent only a sampling of the science and technology produced at Lawrence Livermore during the 2014 Affairs Office. It represents a sample of the science and technology, people and operations highlights of calendar year. the year. It is available on the LLNL website. On the cover: Top stories of the year. The National Ignition Facility, the world’s mission as well as to addressing other national and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is operated by Lawrence 1largest and most energetic laser, reached a global challenges such as energy and climate change. Livermore National Security, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC52- major “fuel gain” milestone critical to ignition, the Read more LLNL’s Sequoia supercomputer was ranked 07NA27344 LLNL-WEB-458451 “holy grail” of inertial confinement fusion science. No. 1 on the Graph500 list, a measure of a system’s Ignition is the process of releasing fusion energy ability to perform data analytics, released at the 2014 equal to or greater than the amount of energy Supercomputing Conference on Nov. 18. Read more used to confine the fuel. Read more Mark Hart, a scientist and engineer in Lawrence NOTE World renowned for its High Performance Livermore’s Defense Technologies Division, was 3 Computing (HPC) capabilities, Lawrence awarded the 2015 Surety Transformation Initiative Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s 2 internal Web network only. Livermore announced a contract with IBM to bring (STI) Award from the National Nuclear Security Blue links are accessible on both the internal Sierra, a next-generation supercomputer to the and external Lab Web network. Lab. HPC is critical to LLNL’s national security Page 2 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2014 Administration’s (NNSA) Enhanced Surety Program Quotables for developing a code all but impossible to crack. Read more “I’ve never worked a day in my life, I The Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced 4Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded love what I do. My job is just Lawrence Livermore up to $2.5 million to develop plain fun. an implantable neural device with the ability to record and stimulate neurons within the brain to – Engineering Directorate’s chief scientist Jim Candy, on whether he plans to retire soon help restore memory. Read more In directly related research, scientists are developing an electrode Engineering Directorate’s chief scientist array technology for monitoring brain activity as surveillance for emerging viral diseases. Read more Jim Candy has made a significant impact part of a collaborative research project with UC on Lawrence Livermore in his four San Francisco to better understand how the neural decades of groundbreaking research. LLNL researchers have developed a material that circuitry of the brain works during memory retrieval. 8is 10 times stronger and stiffer than traditional Read more aerogels of the same density. This ultralow-density, ultrahigh surface area bulk material with an A biological detection technology developed by interconnected nanotubular makeup could be used 5Lawrence Livermore scientists can detect bacterial in catalysis, energy storage and conversion, thermal pathogens in the wounds of U.S. soldiers that have insulation, shock energy absorption and high energy previously been missed by other technologies. This density physics. Read more advance may, in time, allow an improvement in how soldiers’ wounds are treated. Read more A team of Livermore scientists are using mini- 9satellites to help control traffic in space. The Lawrence Livermore researchers announced scientists used a series of six images over a 60-hour 6development of an efficient method to measure period taken from a ground-based satellite to prove residual stress in metal parts produced by powder- that it is possible to refine the orbit of another satellite bed fusion additive manufacturing. This 3D printing in low Earth orbit. Read more NOTE process produces metal parts layer by layer using a high-energy laser beam to fuse metal powder Using satellite observations and a large suite of Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s internal Web network only. particles. Read more 10climate models, Lawrence Livermore scientists Blue links are accessible on both the internal have found that long-term ocean warming in the and external Lab Web network. A microbe detection array technology developed 7by LLNL scientists could provide a new rapid Page 3 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory method for public health authorities to conduct NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2014 Quotables Quotables upper 700 meters of Southern Hemisphere oceans has likely been underestimated. Read more In “ another climate research development, Livermore A lot of engineering capabilities, scientists joined forces with eight other labs and while they have a huge impact on the National Center for Atmospheric Research to use high performance computing to create the the Lab’s mission space, are largely most complete climate and Earth system models unknown outside of our square designed to address the most challenging climate change issues. Read more mile. It’s very important to get the word out about our Additional research worthy of mention, and garnering international attention, includes one-of-a-kind expertise. The interior of the target chamber LLNL research published about planetary — Anantha Krishnan at the National Ignition Facility formation. Livermore scientists for the first time in an all-hands address to Engineering at Lawrence Livermore National experimentally re-created the conditions that exist Laboratory. The object entering from the left is the target positioner, on deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter, Uranus which a millimeter-scale target is and many of the planets recently discovered mounted. Researchers recently used outside of our solar system. Read more NIF to study the interior state of giant planets. A month-by-month recap of 2014 events at Lawrence Livermore Lawrence Livermore’s Newsline month-by-month JANUARY 2014 highlights from 2014 are listed on the following pages. Listings are in four categories: Science and Science & technology technology; People; Operations; and Recognition Space weathering, a process similar to geological and awards. This 2014 Year-in-Review appears only erosion on the Earth, produces water in the rims of NOTE electronically; there is no print edition. The Web- tiny particles of interplanetary dust. The discovery may Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s based format offers the advantage of providing links have implications on the origins of life and sources of internal Web network only. to the referenced Newsline articles, press releases or Blue links are accessible on both the internal water throughout the galaxy. Read more and external Lab Web network. the LLNL Report. Page 4 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2014 Quotables A team of LLNL scientists are using mini-satellites With this technology, we would have that help control traffic in space. The scientists use a a small portable reactor that would series of six images over a 60-hour period taken from a ground-based satellite to prove that it is possible to convert“ natural gas to a liquid fuel. refine the orbit of another satellite in low Earth orbit. The liquid is much more valuable, and Read more transportable, than natural gas in its Lab researchers discover an important source gaseous form. If the technology works of decoherence noise affecting the usability of Lawrence Livermore chemist Sarah superconducting circuits as quantum bits (qubits) for well, it could give the United States a Baker and engineer Josh Stolaroff quantum computers. Increasing coherence time in examine an enzyme that they plan to new option for using our large reserves superconducting circuits for use as qubits is an active use as a catalyst to convert methane to of natural gas. liquid fuel. area of research in the quest to create a practical scalable quantum computer. Read more – LLNL engineer Joshuah Stolaroff, who co-leads the project with chemist Sarah Baker In an effort to put to good use natural gas (methane) that might otherwise become pollution, LLNL during fallout formation following a nuclear detonation. collaborates with start-up company Calysta Energy on Read more a new technology to convert natural gas to liquid fuel. Read more A team of LLNL scientists conduct a study of the phase stability of vanadium metal (a hard, silvery gray, The world’s most advanced instrument for directly ductile and malleable transition metal) and vanadium- imaging and analyzing planets orbiting around other chromium alloys at high temperatures and pressures.
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