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The problem/situation that is being addressed concerns the development of ultrafast coatings that will meet the specifications of the DoE solicitation: “broad-bandwidth, laser damage threshold of 0.5 J/cm2 (1 ps), engineered using a process that is scalable to large areas.” Development of interference coatings (ICs) with superior laser damage is strongly motivated by the needs to scale near in ...

Ultra-high power, ultrashort pulse lasers systems are the central tool driving many of the recent advances in high energy density plasma science. They enable the generation of high energy density relativistic plasmas, bright x-ray and gamma–ray bursts, energetics particle beams and neutrons, and drive applications such as shadowgraphy of inertial confinement fusion targets and fast ignition. How ...

Plastics are indispensable materials for modern life and the global economy, but current practices in the generation, use, and disposal of commodity plastics are largely unsustainable, causing severe worldwide plastics pollution and enormous energy and materials value loss in the economy. In particular, plastics are a material of choice in packaging applications, but they are currently designed fo ...

By 2050 43,400,000 metric tons of cumulative wind turbine blade waste is expected to exist and continue growing at 2,000,000 metric tons/year globally. Even in the near term, wind turbine blade waste generation is expected to approach 1,000,000 metric tons/year by 2029. In short, the amount of wind turbine blade waste needing disposal is growing rapidly while the status quo option of landfilling, ...

The immense growth in weather and river sensor data availability along with increases in computational power and algorithmic sophistication have enabled the widespread application of physical, machine learning, and artificial intelligence algorithms to river forecasting. The forecasts produced by widely varying model approaches are inherently limited in different ways, such as by the number and qu ...

We propose to develop and demonstrate the overpass/underpass (also called cloverleaf) end design for high field block coil dipole magnets made with Nb3Sn Rutherford cable. Block coil dipole designs are appealing for their simplicity in the body of a magnet, but less so in the ends of certain blocks that must be lifted to clear the beam tube. This lifting — which typically is in the hard directio ...

This project seeks to demonstrate a new approach for implementing tunable mid-infrared (IR) ultrafast lasers at high peak-and average powers, to specifically address the need outlined in Topic 32: Laser Technology R&D for Accelerators, listed under “Type III.” This category seeks to develop ultrafast lasers in the 2-5 micron mid-infrared (IR) spectral range with energies in the mJ- J range, re ...

The Department of Energy (DoE) has identified the important need to recycle, recover, and reuse the critical materials involved in lithium battery (LiB) technology. It is reported that in 2018 the world consumed over 50,000 tons of various lithium and transition metal salts to meet the production of LiBs needed for the worldwide energy storage needs. The market forecast for LiBs suggest that the d ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by fossil fuel combustion can have serious consequences for humans and the environment. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a key technological approach to slow down the CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere byseparating CO2 from industrial plant effluents and injecting it into an underground geological formation to permanently store the CO2. In order to monitor the pot ...

The lithium-ion battery is one of the most centrally important technologies for the 21st century. However, transformative change to battery technology is required to meet the demanding performance required for massive adoption of electric vehicles. Vulcan Alloys nanocomposite foil (NCF) anode technology dramatically simplifies electrode manufacturing, increases battery energy density by 20-40%, an ...