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Demonstration of Fast Pulsed Neutron Capability for Device and Board Testing
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"Bottom-up" Meets "Top-down:" Self-assembly to Direct Manipulation of Nanostructures on Length Scales from Atoms to Microns
"Trojan Horse" Strategy for Deconstruction of Biomass for Biofuels Production
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3D Integration Technology for Highly Secure, Mixed Signal, Reconfigurable Systems
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A Demonstration of Advanced Transparency At The Monju Fast Breeder Reactor
A Discovery Platform for Nanowire Electronics and Photonics
A Dual Neutron+Gamma Source for the Fissmat Inspection for Nuclear Detection (FIND) System
A Light Weight Operating System for Multicore Capability Class Supercomputers
A New Chamber Design for Aerosol Evolution Studies in the Ambient Environment
A Numerical And Experimental Characterization Of Decontaminating Water Distribution Networks
A Radiation Microscope for SEE Testing Using >10 GeV Ions
A Revolution in Micropower: The Catalytic Nanodiode
Active Coded-Aperture Neutron Imaging
Active Control of Periodic Disturbances
Active Polymer Composites for Detecting Abnormal Thermal and Optical Environments
Adaptive, Lightweight, Gel-coated Fabric for Protection from Low Velocity Fragments and Projectiles
Advanced Cathode and Electrolyte for Thermal Batteries
Advanced Diagnostics for Full-Scale Fire Experiments: Closure of the Radiation Source Term and Spectral Fire Signatures
Advanced Fuel Chemistry for Advanced Engines
Advanced I/O for Large-Scale Scientific Applications
Advanced Line of Sight Stabilization Experiment
Advanced Magnetized HED Physics Modeling
Advanced Manufacturing of a Novel Functional Material
Advanced Materials for Water Treatment Membranes: Enhanced Rejection Performance and Surface Properties
Advanced Optical Measurements and Novel Microsystems for Characterizing Photophysical Properties of Single Nanoparticles
Advanced Optical Trigger Systems
Aligned Mesoporous Architectures and Devices
Anomalous Suppression of Fatigue and Wear through Stable Nanodomains
Antibacterial Polymer Coatings
Anticipating The Unintended Consequences Of Security Dynamics
Application of Advanced Laser Diagnostics to Hypersonic Wind Tunnels and Combustion Systems
Application Specific Compression
Atomic Magnetometer for Human Magnetoencephalography
Automated Entity Relationship Extraction
Automated Monte Carlo Biasing for Photon-Generated Electrons Near Surfaces
Autonomous Intelligent Assembly Systems
Availability Analysis of Fuel Conversion Technologies
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Biofilm Biogenesis and Control in Membrane-based Water Treatment Systems
Biomolecular Transport and Separation in Nanotubular Networks
Biosafety Risk Assessment Methodology (Biosafety-RAM)
Bloch Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Nanostructure Arrays for High Frequency Applications
Borazine Precursors for Boron Nitride anti Friction Coatings for MEMS
Border Tunnel Detection
Building a Live/Virtual/Constructive Experimental Testbed
Building More Powerful Less Expensive Supercomputers Using Processing-In-Memory (PIM)
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Capture and Utilization of Context in Language Comprehension and Memory
Capturing Carbon Dioxide via Reactions in Nanopores
Cell Modeling with Heterogeneous, Dynamic Cell Membranes
CO2 Reduction Using Biomimetic Photocatalytic Nanodevices
Composite Thermal Protection Systems Incorporating Energy Absorption With Oxidation Resistance
Compositional Ordering and Stability in Nanostructured, Bulk Thermoelectric Alloys
Computational and Experimental Platform for Understanding and Optimizing Water Flux and Salt Rejection in Nanoporous Membranes
Computational and Experimental Study of Nanoporous Membranes for Water Desalination and Decontamination
Controlling the Nanoscale Chemistry of Carbon on Surfaces
Cosmic Ray Hydrometrologic Imaging of Water Fluxes
Creating a Discovery Platform for Defined-space Chemistry and Materials: Metal Organic Frameworks
Creating a Smart Fast-Neutron Calibration Source
Creation of a First Principles Simulation of Weapons Generated Electromagnetic Pulse
Creation of a Lab-Wide Total Risk Analysis Capability
Creation of Water-Treatment Membrane Technologies with Reduced Biofouling
Cross-layer Design for Secure Communications in MANETs
Crossing the Mesoscale No-Man's Land: Massively Parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo
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Data Fusion and Communications for Global Strike Weapon-Deployed Sensor Systems
Decision Support for Integrated Water-Energy Planning
Design and Evaluation of Border Security Systems
Determination and Optimization of Spatial Samples for Distributed Measurements
Developing a Thermal Microscopy Platform for In-Situ Thermal/Thermoelectric Structure-Property Studies of Individual Nanotubes and Nanowires
Developing Key Capabilities for Quantum Computing: Trapped Ion and GaAs Approaches
Development of a Multivariate Electrochemical Tool (MET)
Development of a New Generation of Waste Form for Entrapment and Immobilization of Highly Volatile and Soluble Radionuclides
Development of a Physics Understanding of Pulsed Power Closing Switches for Multiple LTD Applications
Development of Advanced Continuum Models that Incorporate Nanomechanical Deformation into Engineering Analysis
Development of Efficient, Integrated Cellulosic Biorefineries
Development of Nanostructured and Surface Modified Semiconductors for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Cells
Diffusion-Based Sensing of Membrane Proteins in Solid Support Platforms
Direct Approaches for Recycling Carbon Dioxide into Synthetic Fuel
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Generalized Continuum Models for Inelasticity
Discovery, Integration, and Interrogation of Biotic/Abiotic Materials and Systems
Distributed Micro-releases of Bioterror Pathogens: Threat Characterization and Epidemiology from Uncertain Patient Observables
Doppler Electron Velocimeter - Dynamics at the Nanoscale
Dynamic Compression of Synthetic Diamond Windows
Dynamics of Propagating Shock Waves and Phase Fronts
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Effect of Pressure and Particle Size on Microstructure and Properties of Vacuum-Plasma-Sprayed Yttria-Stabilized-Zirconia Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrolytes
Efficient Breakdown of Lignocellulose Using Mixed-microbe Population for Bioethanol Production
Efficient Massively Parallel Discrete-Ordinates Methods for Radiation Transport
Efficient Multi-exciton Emission from Quantum Dots
Electromagnetic Gun Simulation Tool
Electromagnetic Properties of Plumes and Plasma Jets for High-Power Microwave Applications
Electrostatic Microvalves Utilizing Conductive Nanoparticles for Improved Speed, Lower Power, and Higher Force Actuation
Enabling All-Threat Analysis Through Intelligent Filtering of Network Traffic
Enabling Immersive Simulation for Complex Systems Analysis and Training
Energy Conversion using Chromophore-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes
Enhanced Biomass to Bioenergy Interconversion through Protein and Metabolic Engineering
Enhanced Inverse SAR
Enhanced Molecular Dynamics for Simulating Thermal and Charge Transport Phenomena in Metals and Semiconductors
Enhanced Performance of Engineered Neural Networks using Nanostructured Probes and Predictive Computational Modeling
Enhanced Scintillation Detectors
Enhanced Simulation for Homeland Security Training
Enhanced Spontaneous Emission Rates in Visible III-Nitride LEDs Using 3D Photonic Crystal Cavities
Equation of State and Transport Property Measurements of Warm Dense Matter
Evaluate Radial Wire Arrays for ICF and RES
Examination of the Optical Mechanical Interface for Advanced Systems to Improve Performance
Expansion of QMD Materials Modeling to Surface Phenomena of Importance to Electrical Breakdown in Pulsed Power Systems
Experimental Assessment and Theoretical Stability Analysis of Unvalidated Assumptions in Generalized Plasticity Theory
Exploiting Interfacial Water Properties for Desalination and Purification Applications
Explosives Detection by Photo-Ionization Ion Mobility Spectrometry
Extremely Thin Chemical Sensor Arrays Using Nanohole Arrays
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Fast High Voltage Spark Gap Switch With a Phase Changing Dielectric
Ferroelectric Opening Switches for Large-Scale Pulsed Power Drivers
Flexible Thin Film Battery Development
Foundational Development of an Advanced Burner Reactor Integrated Safety Code
Four-Wave Mixing for Phase-Matching-Free Nonlinear Optics in Quantum Cascade Structures
Fourier Analysis and Synthesis Tomography
Fundamental Materials Issues for Thermochemical H20 and CO2 Splitting
Fundamentals of Synthetic Conversion of CO2 to Simple Hydrocarbon Fuels
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Geophysical Remote Sensing of Water Reservoirs Suitable for Desalination
Graph-Based Informatics for Nonproliferation and Counterterrorism
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Heat Conduction and Particle Motion in Stationary Nanofluids
Heterogeneous Microsystem Integration as Applied to the Practicality of a Small Caliber Guided Bullet
High Energy Density for Electric Weapons Platforms
High-Speed Spectral Sensor
High-Throughput Discovery and Validation of Biomarkers for Biodefense
Highly Scalable Linear Solvers for Large Science Simulations on Thousands of Processors
Horizon: Next Generation Architecture for a Small Dynamically Reconfigurable Weapon System
HPC Application Performance Analysis and Prediction
Human Performance Modeling for System of Systems Analytics
Hybrid Inorganic-organic Polymer Composites for Improved Performance in Polymer-electrolyte Fuel Cells
Hybrid Plasma Modeling
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Identification of Threats Using Linguistics-Based Knowledge Extraction
Impact of Defects on the Electrical Transport, Optical Properties and Failure Mechanisms of GaN Nanowires
Improved Numerical Methods for Modeling River-Aquifer Interaction
Improved Power Source for Doubling the Exchange Time Interval of LLC
Improving Electronic Structure Calculations to Predict Nano-optoelectronics and Nanocatalyst Functions
Improving Robot Navigation through Self-Supervised Online Learning
In Situ Optical Diagnostics of Neutron Generator Target Films
In Vivo Collection of Rare Proteins Using Kinesin-based "Nano-harvesters"
Infrared to Visible Photon Up-conversion using a Compact Semiconductor Device
Initiation of the TLR4 Signal Transduction Network - Deeper Understanding for Better Therapeutics
Injection-Locked Composite Lasers for mm-Wave Modulation
Innovative Control of a Flexible, Adaptive Energy Grid
Integrated Optical Phase Locked Loop (IO-PLL) for Attosecond Timing in Microwave Oscillators
Integrated Point-of-use Two Dimensional Fuel Cell
Intelligent Front-end Sample Preparation Tool using Acoustic Streaming
Intelligent Power Controllers for Self-Organizing Microgrids
Interface Physics in Microporous Media
Interfacial Property Control of Elastomeric Nanocomposites
Inverted Monolithic Interconnected Module (MIM) Thermophotovoltaics (TPV) for Remote Power Generation
Investigating the Point Seismic Array for Superior Seismic Monitoring
Investigation of Technologies for Hypersonic Payload Release
Investigation of Ultra-low-power PMT-based Radiation Detectors
Irradiation for the Novel Radiolytic Formation of Superalloy Nanoparticles
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Joint Physical and Numerical Modeling of Water Distribution Networks
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Large Scale Simulation for Human Behavior Modeling
Leveraging Multi-way Linkages on Heterogeneous Data
Lightweight Storage and Overlay Networks for Fault Tolerance
Low Cost, Meso-Scale Parts Fabricated from Nanocrystalline Metals
Low Dislocation GaN via Defect-Filtering, Self-Assembled SiO2-Sphere Layers
Low Impedance Z-Pinch Drivers Without Post-Hole Convolute Current Adders
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Managing Thermal Emission: Subwavelength Diffractive Optics Technology in Support of SOF
Massive Multithreading Applied to National Infrastructure and Informatics
Measuring High-Pressure Strength on Pulsed Power Machines
MEMS Sensors and Telemetry For Prognostic Health Management
MEMS-enabled Integrated Optical Circuits for Nuclear Weapons Applications
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MESA ASML Scanner Based Reticle Field-Stitch Capability Enabling Wafer Scale Integration with Direct Impact on Mega-Pixel Focal Plane Array Synthesis
Metal Fires and Their Implications for Advanced Reactors
Microalgal Biodiesel, Feedstock Improvement by Metabolic Engineering
Microbial Agent Detection using Near-IR Electrophoretic and Spectral Signatures for Rapid Identification in Detect-to-Warn Applications
Microfabricated Wire Arrays for Z-Pinch
MicroKelvin Molecule Production
Microrheology of Polymeric Materials at High Strain Rates
Microscale Immune Study Laboratory (MISL)
Microstructure-based Approach for Predicting Crack Initiation and Early Growth in Metals
Mid-Infrared Quantum Dot Emitters Utilizing Planar Photonic Crystal Technology
Millimeter- and Submillimeter-wave Nanoscience
Miniature Flow Cytometer for Medical Diagnostics and Pathogen Detection
Mobile Agent Systems for Distributed Embedded System Reasoning and Complex Warfare Simulation
Model Reduction of Large Dynamic Systems with Localized Nonlinearities
Modeling and Design of Microstructures with Tailored Adhesive Properties
Modeling Aspects of Human Memory and Reasoning for Scientific Study
Multi-Length Scale Algorithms for Failure Modeling in Solid Mechanics
Multi-Mode Energy Scavenging from the Environment
Multi-Scale Behavioral Analyses of Integrated Surety Designs
Multiscale Schemes for the Predictive Description and Virtual Engineering of Materials
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Nanocrystalline Aluminum Alloys for Structural Applications
Nanoengineering by Optically Directed Self Assembly
Nanoengineering for Solid State Lighting
Nanoengineering of Active Interfaces for Organic-Inorganic Optoelectronics
Nanolithography by Combined Self-Assembly and Directed-Assembly
Nanomechanics of Films on Compliant Substrates to Enable New Flexible MEMS and NEMS Devices
Nanoparticle Flow, Ordering and Self-Assembly
Nanopatterned Ferroelectrics for Ultrahigh Density Rad-Hard Nonvolatile Memories
Nanostructured Electrocatalyst for Fuel Cells: Silica Templated Synthesis of Pt/C Composites
Nanotransport and Control of Molecules Through Molecular Gates
Network Architecture Design for Next Generation Supercomputers
Network Design Optimization of Fuel Cell Systems and Distributed Energy Devices
Network Discovery, Characterization and Prediction
Neural Assembly Models Derived through Nano-Scale Measurements
Neural Correlates of Attention and Intention in Decision-Making of Macaques and Humans: Selective Lesioning of Posterior Parietal Areas during Electrophysiology and fMRI
New Hash Function for Data Protection
New Methods for Development of Broad Spectrum Drugs Against Biowarfare Agents
Novel Collaboration and Situational Awareness Environment for Leaders and their Support Staff via Self Assembling Software
Novel Diagnostic for Advanced Measurements of Semiconductor Devices Exposed to Adverse Environments
Novel Foam Encapsulation Materials and Processes
Novel Instrumentation for Selective Photo-Ionization and Trapping of Fine Particles
Novel Virus Coagulants for Water Treatment and Biomolecular Structural Science
Nuclear Facility Counterproliferation
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On the Role of Numerical Error in Turbulence Simulations
Optical Gaseous Atmosphere Sensing and Monitoring Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy and Custom Optic Coatings
Optical Properties of Plasmonic Metal-dielectric Composites
Optimized Nanoporous Materials
Oxygen Insensitive Anode Chemistry to Enable the Spray Paintable Battery
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Parallel Computing in Enterprise Modeling: A Hybrid Approach
Passive and Active Electromagnetic Frequency Selective Surfaces for High-Power Beam Applications
Passive High-Flux Thermal Management of Electrochemical Systems with in situ Microchannel Phase Change
Peridynamics as a Rigorous Coarse-Graining of Atomistics for Multiscale Materials Design
Phase Conjugate Interferometer for Time-Resolved Measurement of Material Morphology
Phase Imprint Lithography for Large Area 3D Nanostructures
Phenomenological Basis for Safety Assessment of Nuclear Process Facilities
Phonon Engineering for Nanostructures
Photonics for Ultrawideband Intrasatellite Communications
Physics of Intense, High Energy Radiation Effects
Physiological Models and Inference Based on Optical Imaging
Piezoelectric Properties of Arrayed Nanostructures of Zinc Oxide for Sensor Applications
Plasmonic Antireflection Coatings (PARC)
Plastic Neutron Detectors
Practical Reliability and Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Hierarchical Systems
Precise Distributed Control and State/Parameter Estimation for Multi-body Satellites and Satellite Formations
Predicting Fracture in Brittle Micro-scale Structures
Predictive Modeling of Microenergetics
Programmed Assembly of Nanoscale Three-Dimensional Networks of Inorganic Materials
Psychologically Plausible Learning Mechanisms for Sandia's Cognitive Framework
Pumping Up CO2 and Its Conversion into Synthetic Fuels and Other Useful Molecules
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Radiation Hardened Components for Space Qualified Point-of-Load Power Conversion
Rapid Manufacturing Innovations for Monitoring Systems
Rapid Spectroscopy for Gas Cloud Analysis
Reduced Order Modeling of Fluid-Structure Interaction
Remotely Interrogated Passive Polarizing Dosimeter (RIPPeD)
Resolving Dynamics of Cell Signaling via Real-Time Imaging of the Immunological Synapse
RF/Microwave Properties of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Rheological Properties of Nanocomposites
Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability of a Membraneless Gas Interface
Risk-based Decision Making for Staggered Terrorist Attacks - Situational Awareness, Resource Markets and Systemic Risk Reduction Under "Reload" Scenarios
Robust Tunable Multifunction Amplifiers Using GaN and RF MEMS Technology
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Scalable Solutions for Processing and Searching Very Large Document Collections
Scaling I/O for High Performance Commodity Clusters
Scaling of X-pinch x-ray sources from 1 MA to 6 MA
Scannerless Range Imaging for Autonomous Rendezvous and Capture
Science at the Interface: Grain Boundaries in Nanocrystalline Metals
Shear Horizontal Surface Acoustic Wave Microsensors for Class A Viral and Bacterial Detection
Shotgun Protein Sequencing
Signature Molecular Descriptor: Advanced Applications
Solar Hydrogen Generation with Porous Semiconductor Electrodes
Solution Methods for Very Highly Integrated Circuits
Spatial Optimization for Regional Stormwater Infrastructure: Balancing Water Quality, Supply Augmentation and Ecosystem Function
Spectroscopic Radiation Detectors for Extreme Environments
Stress-Induced Chemical Detection Using Flexible Coordination Polymers
Studies of the Viscoelastic Properties of Water Confined Between Surfaces of Specified Chemical Nature
Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle Test-Loop Development, Controls, Testing, and Model Validation
Surface Rheology and Interface Stability
Synthetic Biology of Novel Thermophilic Bacteria For Enhanced Production Of Ethanol From 5-Carbon Sugars
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Templated Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Ultracapacitors
The Many Mechanisms for Strain Relaxation in III-Nitride Heterostructures: How, When and Why?
The Physics of 1D and 2D Electron Gases in III-Nitride Heterostructure Nanowires
Theory and Exploration of Quantum-dot Optical Nonlinearities and Coherences
Thermal Microphotonic Focal Plane Array (TM-FPA) for High Sensitivity Room Temperature Infrared Imaging
Three-dimensional Analysis for Nanoscale Materials Science
Toward Developing Real-time Individualized Training Vectors for Experiential Learning
Tracking Nuclear Materials Processing: Metabonomics of Indigenous Species
Tritium Storage Material
Tuned Micro-Cavity Magnetometer / Quantum Computation Device
Tunnel Gap Modulation Spectroscopy: An Ultrasensitive Technique for Measuring Small Mass Change
Two-pulse Rapid Remote Surface Contamination Measurement
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Ultrathin Optics for Low-Profile, Innocuous Imager
Understanding Surface Breakdown in Electronegative Gases
Using Reconfigurable Functional Units in Conventional Microprocessors
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Verification and Validation R&D for Computational Cognitive and Social Models
Virulence Membrane Protein Organization and Complex Formation in Francisella novicida
Volumetric Plasma Source Development and Characterization
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Water-splitting Nanodevices for Solar Hydrogen Production
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