Chemistry and Materials Science research report: Weapons-Supporting Research and Departmental Institutional Research and Development: First half FY1989

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5911220· OSTI ID:5911220

The research reported here in summary form was conducted under the auspices of Weapons-Supporting Research (WSR) and Institutional Research and Development (IR and D). The period covered is the first half of FY89. Administratively, WSR is organized into block-funded programs (''thrust areas'') and a few smaller projects led by individual investigators. The results reported here are for work in progress; thus, they may be preliminary, fragmentary, or incomplete. Research on the following are briefly described: high-temperature superconductivity; tritium; interfaces, adhesion, and bonding; plutonium and actinides; high-explosives technology; fundamental mechanisms of metal processing; synchrotron-radiation-based materials science; enzyme mimics for methane conversion; structural characterization and modeling of organic aerogels; ultratrace analysis of explosive residues; site-specific chemistry using synchrotron radiation; electronic structure of systems with reduced symmetry; studies of thin molecular plasmas; and the structure-property link in subnanometer materials.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5911220
• Report Number(s): UCID-20622-89-1; ON: DE89014303
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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