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Sandia using kinetics, not temperature, to make ceramic coatings

February 21, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researcher Pylin Sarobol explains an elegant process for ultrafine-grained ceramic coatings in a somewhat inelegant way: sub-micron particles splatting onto a surface.That splatting action is a key part of a Sandia National Laboratories project to lay d…

Categories: Materials Science

Asian-American engineer sees prestigious national award as Sandia ‘career achievement’

February 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ireena Erteza has engineering in her blood. She’s had a love for it as far back as she can remember. “My father showed me what it is to be a scholar and an engineer,” she said. “He was playful and creative. He gave me free rein to play...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense

Topics: aaeoy, algorithms, asian american engineer, asian-american, awards, diversity, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia National Laboratories, SAR, STEM, synthetic aperture radar, women in STEM

Origin of spooky meteor noises reappraised by Sandia researchers

February 17, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When a meteor is about to conk your neighborhood and gives fair warning by emitting sizzling, rustling and hissing sounds as it descends, you might think that the universe is being sporting. But these auditory warnings, which do occur, seem contrary to the laws of physics if...

Categories: Physics, Space / Astronomy

Topics: asteroids, astronomy, meteors, photoacoustic, space

Energy work brings Sandia Labs two national technology transfer awards

February 15, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) national 2017 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a heat-exchanger technology that makes power generation more efficient. And Sandia won the FLC’s State and Local Economic Development Recognition award for its work on the New Jersey TRANSITGRID...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, energy, flc, national labs, partnerships, tech transfer

Research at Sandia looking at how brittle materials fail

February 13, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you want to see what happens if your phone falls onto concrete, you can actually drop it or let an engineer work out the consequences in advance.Odds are you’ll go with the engineer.Figuring out how brittle materials inside a device behave, and fai…

Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: brittle materials, computer modeling and simulation

Sandia adds augmented reality to training toolbox

February 6, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When you hear the term “serious gaming” you might envision professional eSports competitors gearing up for a League of Legends World Championship in front of tens of thousands of live fans and tens of millions of streaming fans. At Sandia National Laboratories, serious gaming means something else...

Categories: Homeland security

Topics: augmented reality, global security, international atomic energy agency, international training course, nuclear power, nuclear reactor, physical security, training

Tam Le and Todd Noel use augmented reality

Battling corrosion to keep solar panels humming

February 2, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — People think of corrosion as rust on cars or oxidation that blackens silver, but it also harms critical electronics and connections in solar panels, lowering the amount of electricity produced.“It’s challenging to predict and even more challenging t…

Categories: Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: corrosion, photovoltaics, PV

Sandia receives ENERGISE award to study how to help utilities better manage power systems

January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million award to help utility companies better visualize, manage and protect power systems as they include increasing numbers of distributed energy resources (DER) such as wind and solar. The project creates open-source advanced distribution management system (ADMS) algorithms...

Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement

January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a “home-grown” technology that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The licensing agreement was signed Jan. 23 between mPower Technology Inc. and Sandia for microsystems enabled photovoltaics (MEPV)....

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, energy, licensing, national labs, renewable energy, solar, solar glitter, tech transfer

Designing diagnostic labs that are safe, specific and sustainable

January 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An outbreak is like a wildfire; the sooner it’s caught, the easier it is to fight, said Vips Halkjaer-Knudsen, a lab design expert at Sandia National Laboratories. To detect an outbreak early — whether Ebola, Zika or influenza — healthcare workers must have a local, trustworthy diagnostic...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security

Topics: biorisk management, biosafety, biosecurity, global security, laboratory design, laboratory security, public health, sustainable design

Bill Arndt in biosafety demonstration lab

Small, NM businesses key factor in Sandia’s 2016 economic impact

January 12, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent more than $1 billion on goods and services in fiscal year 2016, up more than $56 million from the previous year, and New Mexico businesses received more than $381 million, or 37 percent of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, contracting, economic development, economic impact, national labs, procurement, small business

Kirk McWethy, owner and president of SDV Construction Inc. of Albuquerque, has been a Sandia contractor since 2006. His service-disabled veteran-owned small business has 44 employees and has completed numerous construction projects at the Labs, including an addition to Bldg. 905 shown in this photo. “I love being a Sandia contractor because it is a true partnership. Both sides work to make the other successful,” says McWethy, an Air Force veteran. “The people at Sandia want us to succeed and continue to grow.” (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hikers provide data for Sandia study of health, performance

January 4, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – It takes a special type of person to hike from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the other in a single day. These motivated, resilient athletes now are helping researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) to collect an…

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: national laboratories, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, unm

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