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Smarter, safer bridges with Sandia sensors
July 3, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Along with flying cars and instantaneous teleportation, smart bridges, roads and subway lines that can send out warnings when they’re damaged are staples of futuristic transportation systems in science fiction. Sandia National Laboratories has worked with Structural Monitoring Systems PLC, a U.K.-based manufacturer of structural health monitoring...
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Man positions small, clear sensor on an old rusty bridge. Blue sky in background. In his other hand is a complex control system.

Sandia light mixer generates 11 colors simultaneously
June 28, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A multicolor laser pointer you can use to change the color of the laser with a button click — similar to a multicolor ballpoint pen — is one step closer to reality thanks to a new tiny synthetic material made at Sandia National Laboratories. A flashy laser...
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Polina Vabishchevich and Igal Brener in a dark room with blue, green, and red laser light reflecting off of a table full of optical mirrors.

Sandia researcher Jeff Brinker elected fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
June 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jeff Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories fellow and University of New Mexico regents’ professor, has been elected fellow of the oldest learned society and independent policy research center in the United States: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy’s 1780 charter states its purpose is “to...
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Solar tower exposes materials to intense heat to test thermal response
June 21, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is using its solar tower to help assess the impact of extreme temperature changes on materials. The tests, now in their second year, take advantage of the ability of Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility to simulate a very rapid increase in temperature followed...
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Arm-based supercomputer prototype to be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories by DOE
June 18, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Microprocessors designed by Arm are ubiquitous in automobile electronics, cellphones and other embedded applications, but until recently they have not provided the performance necessary to make them practical for high-performance computing. Astra, one of the first supercomputers to use processors based on the Arm architecture in a...
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Astra ARM Supercomputer

How microgrids could boost resilience in New Orleans
June 14, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — During Hurricane Katrina and other severe storms that have hit New Orleans, power outages, flooding and wind damage combined to cut off people from clean drinking water, food, medical care, shelter, prescriptions and other vital services. In a year-long project, researchers at Sandia and Los Alamos national...
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Microgrid researcher

Sandia computational mathematician named SIAM fellow
June 13, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories computational scientist and mathematician John Shadid has been named a 2018 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Shadid’s selection by SIAM was based upon his research on solution methods for multiphysics systems, scalable parallel numerical algorithms and numerical methods for strongly...
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John Shadid

Sandia’s robotic work cell conducts high-throughput testing ‘in an instant’
June 11, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Today with 3D printing you can make almost anything in a matter of hours. However, making sure that part works reliably takes weeks or even months. Until now. Sandia National Laboratories has designed and built a six-sided work cell, similar to a circular desk, with a commercial...
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Brad Boyce watches a yellow commercial robot scan a 3D-printed test part with blue light.

Sandia’s Robot Rodeo provides training for bomb squads
June 8, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For a dozen years, robotics experts from the national laboratories have shared their skill with first responders who use robots for hazardous tasks by coordinating annual training competitions to help prepare them for dangerous real-world situations. Next week, Sandia National Laboratories will host the 12th annual Western...
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Foreground: Robot holding an orange bucket. Background: Puddle of water and a robot by some pipes. General messy workshop space around.

Catching dreams
June 7, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories in a new partnership with New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement, or NM MESA, has increased the number of students in Sandia’s Dream Catchers Science Program. The latest hands-on science and engineering program was recently held at the University of New Mexico-Gallup campus....
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International corrosion society elects first Sandia fellow
June 4, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A decade ago, while studying potential corrosion of containers for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist David Enos designed an intricate solution to a sticky problem. Computer simulations showed the likelihood of unusually high heat and humidity deep inside...
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A splash of detergent makes catalytic compounds more powerful
May 30, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Researcher David Rosenberg examines images of a white powder under a powerful scanning electron microscope. Up close, the powder looks like coarse gravel, a heap of similar but irregular chunks. Then he looks at a second image — the same material produced by colleague Hongyou Fan instead...
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Sandia team designs in a new way for additive manufacturing
May 29, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team built a telescope to demonstrate how to design for additive manufacturing, familiarly known as 3D printing, to take advantage of the technique’s strengths and weaknesses. Sandia’s three-year Laboratory Directed Research and Development project proved the feasibility of using additive manufacturing as an...
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Sandia National Laboratories project lead Ted Winrow with the telescope he and his team built using advanced manufacturing techniques.

Raising the heat to lower the cost of solar energy
May 21, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will receive $10.5 million from the Department of Energy to research and design a cheaper and more efficient solar energy system. The work focuses on refining a specific type of utility-scale solar energy technology that uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a...
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Falling particle receiver video

Magnetic nanoparticles leap from lab bench to breast cancer clinical trials
April 30, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories materials chemist Dale Huber has been working on the challenge of making iron-based nanoparticles the exact same size for 15 years. Now, he and his long-term collaborators at Imagion Biosystems will use these magnetic nanoparticles for their first breast cancer clinical trial later this...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Nanotechnology
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Dale Huber, in a blue labcoat holds a small white microfluidic chip beside a large, basket-ball sized round-bottom flask.

Exascale Earth-modeling system is ready to make high-fidelity predictions for energy
April 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Earth modeling system developed over the last four years and unveiled Monday is expected to have one of the finest resolutions ever achieved by supercomputers simulating aspects of the planet’s climate, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Taylor, the project’s chief computational scientist. The Energy Exascale...
Categories: Climate Change, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
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First 3-D printed wind-blade mold, energy-saving nanoparticles earn Sandia national awards
April 25, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer’s national 2018 Technology Focus Award for designing the first wind turbine blades fabricated from a 3-D printed mold, which could dramatically shorten the time and expense of developing new wind energy technology. The labs also...
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3D-printed wind turbine blade

Exploring Arctic clues to secure future with new Sandia, university partnership
April 23, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Arctic is undergoing rapid change, with sea ice melting and temperatures rising at a faster pace than anywhere else in the world. Its changing environment affects global security, politics, the economy and the climate. Understanding these changes is crucial for shaping and safeguarding U.S. security in...
Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Effects of climate change on communally managed water systems softened by shared effort
April 16, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Shared fates and experiences in a community can help it withstand changes to water availability due to climate change, a recent study by Sandia National Laboratories researchers found. “During our research, a community’s ability to withstand natural and social pressures was routinely pinpointed to the fact that...
Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water
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Biologically inspired membrane purges coal-fired smoke of greenhouse gases
April 11, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A biologically inspired membrane intended to cleanse carbon dioxide almost completely from the smoke of coal-fired power plants has been developed by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.[caption id="" align="align…
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Sandia measurements expert named Asian American Engineer of the Year
April 10, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist Hy Tran has been named a 2018 Asian American Engineer of the Year. Tran, whose family came to the United States from Vietnam during the Vietnam War, said "the values of education, har…
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