LANL’s work for BES
Los Alamos researchers lead core program in materials science, condensed matter physics, heavy-element chemistry, geoscience and biology. In addition, Los Alamos National Laboratory is home to two BES research centers:
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
Our mission is to provide scientific understanding underlying nanoscale integration through the assembly of diverse materials across multiple length scales, with the ultimate goal of designing and achieving new material properties and functionalities.
Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes (FUTURE)
FUTURE is dedicated to understanding how extreme conditions of materials in nuclear reactors impact the properties of those materials.
Material Sciences and Engineering Division Portfolio
- Science of 100 Tesla
- Towards a Universal Description of Vortex Matter in Superconductors
- Quantum Fluctuations in Narrowband Systems
- Integrated Modeling of Novel and Dirac Materials
- Topological Phases of Quantum Matter & Decoherence
- Dilatational and Shear Transformations in HCP Metals: Interfacial Defects and Collective Interactions
- The Relationship Between Defect Kinetics and Crystalline
Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Portfolio
- Heavy Element Chemistry
- Nonlinear Elasticity in Rocks
- Fracture Formation and Permeability Evolution In-situ Pressure, Temperature and Stress Conditions
- Next Generation First Principles Molecular Dynamics
- Photoinduced electronic Dynamics at Chemically Assembled Quantum Interfaces
- Theory and Simulation of Ultrafast Multidimensional Nonlinear X-ray Spectroscopy of Molecules
National User Facilities
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
- Scientific Thrusts
- Quantum Materials Systems
- NanoPhotonics and Optical Nanomaterials
- Soft, Bio and Composite Nanomaterials
- In-situ Characterization and Nanomechanics
- Scientific Thrusts
Energy Frontier Research Centers
- Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes (FUTURE)
- Center for Advancement of Topological Semimetals (CATS)
- Center for Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials (M2QM)
- Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES)
- Precision Ion-electron Control in Solid State Storage (PICS3)
- Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP)
Lighting the Way for Nanotube Innovation
Advancing Understanding of Heavy Elements at the Edge of the Periodic Table
Uranium compound achieves record anomalous Nernst conductivity
New class of versatile, high-performance quantum dots primed for medical imaging, quantum computing
The quantum butterfly non-effect
Simulating quantum 'time travel' disproves butterfly effect in quantum realm
Machine learning unearths signature of slow-slip quake origins in seismic data
Quantum time travel doesn't follow Back to the Future rules
Quantum dot solar cells get greener
Efficient, "green" quantum-dot solar cells exploit defects
Improved Catalyst Branches Out and Out-Performs
No Strain, No Gain! Breakthrough in 2D Material that Produces Single Photons
Novel approach lets scientists draw superconducting patterns
Opening access to explore the synthetic chemistry of neptunium
Artificial intelligence takes on earthquake prediction
Machine-learning competition boosts earthquake prediction capabilities
More stable light comes from intentionally 'squashed' quantum dots
Researchers discover novel exciton interactions in carbon nanotubes
Tweaking quantum dots powers-up double-pane solar windows
Los Alamos Offers New Insights Into Radiation Damage Evolution
Los Alamos develops new technique for growing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells