2022-2023 LANL Collaborative Program Award Announcement
Many strong proposals were submitted to the 2022-2023 edition of The Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office (NLO) Collaborative Research Program with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This multi-element program is designed to increase the number and depth of research collaborations that benefit the A&M System, LANL, and the individuals involved. Today we are announcing the results of two elements of this program.
- Development Fellowships are designed for A&M System researchers who have the skills, knowledge, and interest to develop long-term collaborative ties with LANL researchers and have already identified one or more LANL collaborators who are willing and able to engage in collaborative research.
- Research Projects are designed for A&M System researchers who have mature ties with LANL collaborator(s) and have identified research topics suitable for joint effort and joint funding from the NLO and LANL.
Approximately half of the development fellowship and a quarter of the research project proposals submitted were selected for funding (listed below) through a review process that involved numerous technical experts from the A&M System and LANL. The NLO and LANL are grateful to the many researchers who submitted proposals, and to the experts who provided the independent peer review that is essential to achieving excellence in programs such as these.
Development Fellowships
| Project Title | PI (Texas A&M System) | Collaborator (LANL) |
| High-fidelity Simulations of Shock-accelerated Particles | Iman Borazjani | Daniel Livescu |
| Use of radio frequency (RF) fields in the heating, processing, and joining of carbon-carbon (C-C) composites | Micah Green | Christopher Hamilton |
| Designing Sociotechnical Interventions to Advance the Preservation, Integrity, and Reproducibility of Scholarly Publications | Sarah Potvin; Tina Budzise-Weaver; Kathy Anders | Martin Klein |
| Deciphering the mechanisms behind the operational stability issues associated with current-induced heating in metal halide perovskites (MHPs) optoelectronic devices | Qing Tu | Wanyi Nie |
| Translating Nanowire Assemblies into Precision Manufacture of Adaptive, Multifunctional Devices | Sreeram Vaddiraju | Sergei A. Ivanov |
| Demonstrate high-efficiency hot carrier solar cells | Sy-Bor Wen | Wanyi Nie; Sergei Tretiak |
| Development of the “60R” flight path for university radiation-effects research at LANL LANSCE | Richard Wilkins | Stephen Wender; Elena Guardincerri; Kranti Gunthoti |
Research Projects
| Project Title | PI (Texas A&M System) | Collaborator (LANL) |
| Development and Deployment of a Fully Autonomous in Silico Processing and Materials Discovery Platform | Raymundo Arroyave; Douglas Allaire | Danny Perez; Jan Janssen |
| The Role of Second Law of Thermodynamics in Deriving Turbulence Models and Simplified Reaction Kinetics | Paul G. A. Cizmas | Daniel Livescu |
| Neonicotinoid Exposure in Wild Bird Communities | Sarah Hamer | Jeanne Fair |
| Fieldable NMR/MRI Device for Molecular Analysis and Imaging Using Para-Hydrogen | Christian Hilty | Igor Savukov; Per Magnelind; Robert Williams |
| Precise Control of Redox-Active Macromolecular Microstructure via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly for High Energy Density Redox Flow Batteries | Emily Pentzer | Sandip Maurya |
| Dark Matter and gamma-ray Astrophysics | Louis Strigari | J. Patrick Harding; Andrea Albert |
The NLO looks forward to assisting all interested researchers with furthering their relationships and opportunities with LANL and other National Laboratories.