Sandia Labs FY21 LDRD Annual Report

FY21 ANNUAL REPORT

Michael L. McLain was elected vice-chair of the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technology steering committee. McLain was a PI for several LDRD projects focused on radiation effects and high energy density science. Nicholas Argibay, Michael Chandross, and Andrew Kustas were featured in Industrial Heating , where they

describe their success in developing a new alloy with an extraordinary combination of mechanical properties. Each have been successful LDRD PIs in Materials Science and other Sandia research areas. An article, “Variable Laser Ignition Pathways in Al/Pt Reactive Multilayers across 10 Decades of Pulse Duration,” was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C . An illustration from this article, focused on the results from a Sandia LDRD project, was selected as the journal cover art.

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