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C55-10a-270371Electron Tomography (ET) is used to visualize nanostructures in three dimensions, but long acquisition times make it unsuitable for the study of fast in situ reactions and dose-sensitive materials. The limiting factor for fast acquisition of ET data is stage instability causing drift in all directions while tilting. Because ET requires many images taken within the exact same field of ...

C55-13a-270397To date, no integrated characterization and predictive modeling workflow has been proposed to optimize Geothermal Battery Energy Storage (GBES) systems in sedimentary formations. Of particular concern is the near wellbore formation integrity of GBES systems that are subject to Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) loading conditions: during injection, storage, and production c ...

C55-05a-270492-AbstractChemical reactions are rarely performed in isolation. Most real-world applications involve chemical reaction networks in which many simultaneous chemical reactions of many species occur. Advances in high-performance computer simulations and laboratory automation provide an increasingly detailed picture of these chemical reaction networks, but the underlying representation in ...

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is developing innovative, flexible, and small-scale (1-5 MW), modular gasification systems for converting diverse types of US domestic energy resources into value-added products with greatly reduced or negative CO2 emissions. Production of high purity (>95%) oxygen at modular scale is an enabling technology for successful development and deployment of these systems. ...

C53-28a-271090Biological systems function across scales, with operations at nanoscales coming together to form complex macroscale communities. Thus, resolving interactions and tracking metabolic processes within living systems requires multi-scale imaging to visualize cells at the community, cellular, subcellular, and single-molecule scales. Although techniques like light sheet fluorescence micros ...

C53-28b-271112Quantum enabled approaches pose new concepts for bioimaging and sensing of biological processes in living biological systems, non-destructively in real time. Processes of interest for bioenergy include measuring enzyme function within cells, tracking metabolic pathways in vivo, monitoring the transport of materials into and out of cells or across cellular membranes and, measuring sig ...

C53-02b-271168The software used in High Performance Computing (HPC) and ArtificialIntelligence/MachineLearning (AI/ML) workloads is increasingly complex to maintain, install, and optimize. More problematic is the poor performance portability of applications between platforms, forcing site-specific re-engineering of codes. Existing solutions to deployment of AI/ML work?ows on commercial cloud envir ...

C53-31a-271169Significant technical innovations are needed to improve the economics of plastic recycling. Plastic recycling rates in the United States have been stagnant for more than a decade: less than 10% of plastics are currently recycled, and only 5.5% of polyurethane plastics are recycled. Plastics have become a major contributor to global warming, as emissions from global plastics productio ...

Developing regional marine renewable energy resource characterizations and assessments is a significant technical challenge which requires state-of-the-art modeling, application of best modeling practices, accurate model skills, high-quality inputs, and high-performance computing resources. Further, resource characterization and assessment for Powering the Blue Economy markets is needed, especiall ...

There are many issues that a wind developer must consider when siting a wind project, but one that has become increasingly pressing in the U.S. is the effect of turbines on local wildlife. New onshore wind development is occurring across the entire the U.S. and has brought wind plants into greater conflict with wildlife, especially bats. The burgeoning U.S. offshore wind industry is also contendin ...