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Anthropogenic influences and natural processes can have long lasting effects on the health of the subsurface environment. Subsurface water is heavily affected by changes in the environment and its quality is regarded as a powerful metric for evaluating the health of the subsurface environment. Therefore, constant monitoring of groundwater quality to identify influences over the seasonal hydrologic ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to reduced the incidence of insider cyber-enabled crime and insider cyber-related espionage on HPC systems. With the rapid increase in cyber-crime, it is imperative for the DOE and government agencies invest more in security to protect vital data and assets. While it is still necessary for ...

Science and research funded and performed by the Department of Energy relies significantly on the modeling and simulations that High Performance Computing systems provide. Research performed on these systems can include energy, climate modeling, nuclear weapons and other government funded research by other agencies. Research missions go beyond local agency use and HPC platforms within Department o ...

Software protection and its associated tools can be regarded as a first line of defense for run-time integrity in an HPC system, but cannot be easily extended to provide security solution beyond the software level. Hence, it is also essential to build a system- wide security analysis tool to assess the entire HPC system’s security. By revealing the risks the system has to an adversary, and impro ...

Electric vehicles are creating unprecedented demand for lithium. Most lithium is produced from brine resources. Conventional methods for extracting lithium from brines suffer from low lithium recovery and cannot access the expanded resources needed for mass adoption of electric vehicles. The Department of Energy has supported a great variety of projects relate ...

One of the major hurdles to the commercialization of OLED lighting technology is its low light extraction efficiency when compared to inorganic LEDs. Currently only ~ 30% of the light produced by the OLED can be extracted. In order to be considered as a commercially viable option, OLED efficacy has to improve dramatically. The mismatch between the refractive indices among the active layer, transp ...

Novel compact and sensitive instruments measuring light scattering from microscopic airborne particles (i.e., aerosols) are needed for deployment on small aerial platforms to characterize aerosol influence on air quality, earth system dynamics, and visibility degradation. The Phase 1 project has developed, modeled, and characterized prototypes of such instruments based on transformative technologi ...

The project will develop methods and technology aimed at facilitating situation comprehension and radically reducing cognitive burden experienced by cyber analysts.

The proposed work will advance the application of x- rays to solving important energy-related and industrial problems in materials. These include developing enabling materials for advanced fuel, nuclear, photonic and aerospace products.

Our nation’s cutting-edge synchrotron facilities require the most powerful x-ray optics to enable scientific discovery. We plan to upgrade existing optics made of toxic beryllium with higher-performing, non-toxic, synthetic diamond lenses.