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Quantum research gets a boost at Sandia
October 24, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has awarded Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories $8 million for quantum research — the study of the fundamental physics of all matter — at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. The award will fund two three-year projects enabling scientists at the two labs...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Ed Bielejec

Sandia delivers first DOE sounding rocket program since 1990s
October 22, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new rocket program could help cut research and development time for new weapons systems from as many as 15 years to less than five. Sandia National Laboratories developed the new program, called the High Operational Tempo Sounding Rocket Program, or HOT SHOT, and integrated it for...
Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering
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HOT SHOT

Water use cut in half at federal lab in Colorado, thanks in part to Sandia
October 19, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories engineer has won a Department of Energy environmental award for helping halve the amount of water used to cool a high-performance computer data center in 2017 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. David J. Martinez, engineering project lead for Sandia’s...
Categories: Awards, Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
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David J. Martinez

Some like it cryogenic
October 15, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Rendering of First Element Fuel’s liquid hydrogen retail fuel pump. The pump includes a canopy on top and the fuel storage is pictured in the rear. (Image courtesy of First Element Fuel) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resol…
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Rendering of First Element Fuel’s liquid hydrogen retail fuel pump. The pump includes a canopy on top and the fuel storage is pictured in the rear.

Sandia Labs names first Jill Hruby Fellows
October 11, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has named Mercedes Taylor and Chen Wang its first Jill Hruby Fellows. The honorees have each been awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in technical leadership, comprising national security-relevant research with an executive mentor. Susan Seestrom, chief research officer and associate laboratories director for advanced...
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Mercedes Taylor

Small business recycling ventures propelled by Sandia engineering
September 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Along Route 66 in rural, eastern New Mexico is a defunct ethanol plant in Tucumcari. Still hanging inside the building, calendars from 2010 mark the year it closed, and six massive fermentation tanks — each one 35 feet tall and 55,000 gallons — sit empty. Drought has...
Categories: Materials Science, Renewable energy
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Tucumcari Bio-Energy

Business partnerships, technology transfer efforts earn Sandia 4 regional awards
September 12, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies.The annual FLC awards program recognizes federal laboratories and their industry partners for outstanding t…
Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Business development specialist Jason Martinez developed and implemented a strategy that strengthened Sandia National Laboratories’ CRADA portfolio.

Blast tube tests at Sandia simulate shock wave conditions nuclear weapons could face
September 10, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You can learn a lot from a blast tube. You can learn more when you couple blast experiments with computer modeling. Sandia National Laboratories researchers are using a blast tube configurable to 120 feet to demonstrate how well nuclear weapons could survive the shock wave of a...
Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers are using a blast tube to demonstrate how well nuclear weapons could survive the shock wave of a blast from an enemy weapon and to help validate the computer modeling.

Cracking the code to soot formation
September 6, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The longstanding mystery of soot formation, which combustion scientists have been trying to explain for decades, appears to be finally solved, thanks to research led by Sandia National Laboratories.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia N…
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water
Soot formation

Sandia Science & Technology Park celebrates 20 years, announces positive economic impact
August 24, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park, home to 26 buildings, 47 companies and organizations and more than 2,050 jobs celebrated its 20th anniversary Friday and highlighted the park’s economic impact through 2017.Sandia National Laboratories Directo…
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Progress toward plugging an antibiotic pump
August 20, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Each year in the U.S., at least 23,000 people die from infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Using computer modeling, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are helping to develop the means...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research
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Susan Rempe

Most wear-resistant metal alloy in the world engineered at Sandia National Laboratories
August 16, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you’re ever unlucky enough to have a car with metal tires, you might consider a set made from a new alloy engineered at Sandia National Laboratories. You could skid — not drive, skid — around the Earth’s equator 500 times before wearing out the tread. Sandia’s...
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Large supercrystals promise superior sensors
August 1, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Using an artful combination of nanotechnology and basic chemistry, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have encouraged gold nanoparticles to self-assemble into unusually large supercrystals that could significantly improve the detection sensitivity for chemicals in explosives or drugs. “Our supercrystals have more sensing capability than regular spectroscopy instruments currently...
Categories: Chemistry, Homeland security, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Hongyou Fan

From concept to commercialization: 40 years of concentrating solar power research
July 26, 2018, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From testing space shuttle tiles to making electricity from sunlight, the world’s first multimegawatt solar tower has contributed to energy research, space exploration, defense testing and solar energy commercialization since it was commissioned at Sandia National Laboratories in July 1978. The solar tower is a key component...
Categories: History, Renewable energy
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Historical sepia toned photo of a crowd looking at the Solar Tower.

Dry casks take the heat
July 18, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures change during storage and how the fuel’s peak temperatures affect the integrity of the metal cladding surrounding the spent fuel. Regulators...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
Dry cask simulator

Sandia researchers named fellows of The Combustion Institute
July 16, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Robert Barlow and Jacqueline Chen are among 125 members who have been named inaugural fellows of The Combustion Institute.As dedicated members of the international combustion community, fellows are recognized by …
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Robert Barlow

Generating electrical power from waste heat
July 9, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that is, if you make toast regularly. The opposite, converting heat into electrical power, isn’t so easy. Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tiny silicon-based device that can harness what was...
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Tiny rectangular chip with etch patterns next to a plasma shere.

Sandia materials scientist looks to inspire students through STEM program
July 5, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For 32 years, Sandia National Laboratories’ Black Leadership Committee has brought science, technology, engineering and math to more than 3,000 middle and high school students through the Hands-On, Minds-On Technologies program. HMTech began as an after-school program to inspire African-American students to pursue STEM careers. Ten years...
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