SQUID devices can detect magnetic fields which can show strains and fractures in materials.
Detection and Measurement Science (D&MS) encompasses an envelope of S&T capabilities and activities ranging from molecular detection to non-destructive evaluation techniques, from gamma spectroscopy to protein sequencing. INL has historically been strong in D&MS in several areas. The term "world-class" may be an overused colloquialism, but is accurate for INL in the areas of radiation measurement, isotopic analyses, and nondestructive analyses. In addition, INL is functionally proficient in many conventional areas of analyses such as those made in physics, chemistry, and biochemistry. Further, INL is emerging in a number of areas, including biomolecular measurement, spatial imaging on a molecular scale, and molecular dynamics measurements for validating computational chemistry results.
These areas of D&MS support many applications, including detection and characterization of weapons of mass destruction (radiological, chemical and biological), process control (nuclear and more conventional industrial), failure diagnosis and prediction, and geospatial characterization of the environment. These applications are supported by an envelope of customers that includes DOE (NA, SC, EM), DOD (DARPA, Army, Navy), DHS (FAA), and industrial sponsors.
- Applied cultural research
- Autonomous platforms
- Bioprocessing
- Characterization of low-volatile contaminants
- Chemical cassette recorder
- Conventional mass spectrometry analyses
- Conventional nondestructive evaluation
- Development of harsh environment sensors
- Development of tensiometer and other down-hole technologies
- Eddy current analyses
- Fundamental cluster reactivity and computational validation
- Geochemistry
- Geophysics
- Geophysics: conductor and semiconductor sensors in soil, RF induction of surfaces
- Geospatial science and engineering
- Hydrologic
- Inductively coupled plasma measurements
- Ion mobility spectroscopy research
- Isotope ratio measurements
- Laser acoustics
- Laser diagnostics
- Molecular biology and genomics
- Nuclear/radiological monitoring
- Open software for rapid processing integrated with work flow processing.
- Optics
- Proteomics
- Pulsed electric field
- Radiation-based inspection
- Radiochemistry
- Spatially resolved surface characterization
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal spray diagnostics
- Vibrational spectroscopy
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- Adaptive Robotics
- Applied Geosciences
- Biotechnology
- Center for Advanced Modeling and Simulation (CAMS)
- Chemistry
- Geosciences Research
- Materials Science
- Subsurface Science
- Contacts:
- Gary Groenewold, (208) 526-2803, Send E-mail