April 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper. Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, is commonly found in soils all over the world and can cause serious, and often fatal,...
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Low-cost, hydrogen-powered forklifts with rapid refueling, zero emissions coming soon
April 15, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell systems soon could be powering the forklifts used in warehouses and other industrial settings at lower costs and with faster refueling times than ever before, courtesy of a partnership between Sandia National Laboratories…
Topics: forklift, hydrogen fuel cell
Wind tunnel tests support improved aerodynamic design of B61-12 bomb
April 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has finished eight days of testing a full-scale mock unit representing the aerodynamic characteristics of the B61-12 gravity bomb in a wind tunnel.The tests on the mock-up were done to establish the configuration that will d…
Categories: Nuclear Weapons
Resilient cities focus of new Sandia, Rockefeller Foundation pact to help 100 communities
April 1, 2014 • Scientific, engineering solutions for disaster recovery, sustainability ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will bring decades of experience solving problems with practical engineering and modeling complex systems to cities around the world under a new agreement to support the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. The...
Entrepreneur teams with Sandia scientists to bring life-saving vaccines to far reaches of the world
March 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Getting life-saving vaccines to the most remote parts of the world is no easy feat. Biopharmaceuticals are highly sensitive to heat and cold and can perish if their temperature shifts a few degrees. “The vast majority of the world’s population lives in areas where electricity and refrigeration...
Topics: biomedicine, biopharmaceuticals, business, chemistry, collaboration, containers, economic development, economic impact, engineers, health, materials science, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, refrigeration, research, small business, solar icemaker, tech transfer, technology, vaccines, World Health Organization
Clearing up cloudy understanding on solar power plant output
March 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories engineers have been studying the most effective ways to use solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays — a clean, affordable and renewable way to keep the power on. Systems are relatively easy to install and have relatively small main…
Moving technologies from the lab to the marketplace
March 13, 2014, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Representatives from national labs, universities and business will gather for a Cleantech Open Business Briefing on March 18 at Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) to highlight how those entities are working together to …
Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia pair honored by Travis AFB for helping service members, families
March 12, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Two members of Sandia National Laboratories’ Military Support Committee (MSC) in Livermore, Calif., have been awarded a special commendation in recognition of their efforts to assist enlisted families in need at Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, C…
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense
Cargo security partnership takes home national tech transfer award
March 10, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and two collaborators won the national Federal Laboratory Consortium’s 2014 Interagency Partnership Award. The award recognizes agency and/or laboratory employees from at least two organizations who together did outstanding work in transferring technology. The winning partnership included Sandia, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems...
Magnetically stimulated flow patterns offer strategy for heat transfer problems
March 6, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Jim Martin and Kyle Solis have what Martin calls “a devil of a problem.” They’ve discovered how to harness magnetic fields to create vigorous, organized fluid flows in particle suspensions. The magnetically…
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Laminar-flow cleanroom inventor honored posthumously by National Inventors Hall of Fame
March 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized manufacturing in electronics and pharmaceuticals, made hospital operating rooms safer and advanced space exploration. Whitfield, the son of Texas cotton farmers who became...
Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia Labs tops $6 million in United Way donations
February 27, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2013 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico by 8.2 percent over the previous year, giving $6,050,426 to the charitable organization. “This level of generosity is astounding,” said Kelly Westlake, Sandia’s 2013 Employee Caring Program campaign chair....
Categories: Community / Education
Portable hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide green, sustainable power to Honolulu port
February 25, 2014 • Deployment project builds on earlier study’s optimistic results LIVERMORE, Calif.— Clean hydrogen power that’s expected to lower emissions and reduce energy consumption will be coming to the Port of Honolulu in 2015 after the completion of a new fuel cell technology de…
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
Economic impact report spotlights Sandia’s commitment to business
February 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $975 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2013 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $420 million, or 43 percent, of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S. small businesses received nearly $500 million in...
Sandia’s Greg White chosen as a New Face of Engineering 2014
February 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia engineer Greg White has been chosen as one of the 2014 New Faces of Engineering, a recognition program that highlights the work of engineers ages 30 and younger.The award is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, now the DiscoverE F…
Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering
White House honors four early-career Sandia researchers
February 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers Matthew Brake, Adrian Chavez, Seth Root and Daniel Stick have been named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor the U.S. go…
Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering
Agreement lets Sandia, UNM staff work side-by-side
February 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has launched a new kind of collaboration designed to strengthen its research bonds with the University of New Mexico (UNM). “This is another sign of the close and deepening partnership between two of the pre-eminent research institutions in the state,” Sandia Vice President and...
Threat reduction: Hruby leads Sandia effort to counter weapons of mass destruction
February 14, 2014, Media Advisory • Sandia Labs vice president to speak at AAAS annual meeting CHICAGO, Ill. — Threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction don’t seem as imminent today as they did after terrorists flew hijacked planes into the first World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed in a Pennsylvania field, but...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Homeland security
Computer power clicks with geochemistry
January 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is developing computer models that show how radioactive waste interacts with soil and sediments, shedding light on waste disposal and how to keep contamination away from drinking water. “Very little is known about the fundamental chemistry and whether contaminants will stay in soil or...
Black Engineer of the Year honoree inspires youth to excel in STEM
January 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s more to receiving a Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) award than being a winner, says Aaron Brundage of Sandia National Laboratories. “The intent of the award is to provide guidance to young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM),” he says....
Topics: awards, BEYA, black engineers, community, diversity, education, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, STEM
Sandia conducts first impact test in years of B61 nonnuclear components
January 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A ground-penetrating bomb, minus its nuclear components, rammed through a target at the remote Coyote Canyon test range last month in Sandia National Laboratories’ first such rocket-driven impact test in seven years. Engineers said the Sandia componen…
Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect
January 9, 2014 • Control of widely recognized distortion may allow greater output at Sandia’s Z machine ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A surprising effect created by a 19th century device called a Helmholtz pair offers clues about how to achieve controlled nuclear fusion at Sandia National Laboratories’ powerful Z machine. A Helmholz coil produces a...
Categories: Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering
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