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Painless microneedles extract fluid for wearable sensors for soldiers, athletes
October 2, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The lab is calm and quiet, clean and well organized; boxes of tiny needles and sample tubes are neatly stacked above a pristine paper-covered countertop. This is a far cry from the hectic emergency room, dusty battlefield or sweaty training center Sandia National Laboratories and University of...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research
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Ronen Polsky positions a prototype 3-D-printed microneedle holder on the arm of Mollie Rappe in a lab.

Sandia Labs wins 5 regional technology transfer awards
September 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won five awards from the 2017 Federal Laboratory Consortium for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies.The annual FLC awards program recognizes federal laboratories and their industry partners for outs…
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Cleaning up subways: Sandia’s 20-year mission to stop anthrax in its tracks
September 18, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you’re like most people, you don’t spend much time thinking about what would happen if anthrax was released into your local subway system.Luckily, Sandia National Laboratories engineer Mark Tucker has spent much of the past 20 years thinking abou…
Categories: Homeland security
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Sandia engineer Mark Tucker with a foam-covered plastic pane.

Nanotechnology experts at Sandia create first terahertz-speed polarization optical switch
September 14, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has for the first time used optics rather than electronics to switch a nanometer-thick thin film device from completely dark to completely transparent, or light, at a speed of trillionths of a second.The team led …
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia Labs researcher wins national award in computational fluid dynamics
September 12, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Pavel Bochev has been awarded the Thomas J.R. Hughes Medal by the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics. The award is given biannually for “outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of computation fluid dynamics.” Sandia manager Michael Parks said Bochev was chosen...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Islamic Center kids, Sandia coach, win big in international STEM competition
September 7, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Motivated by the importance of involving kids in STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math applications, Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Mohamed Ebeida started a robotics program last year at the Islamic Center of New Mexico for boys and girls from 6 to 14 years old. This...
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Radiation analysis software makes emergency responders’ jobs quicker, easier
September 5, 2017 • InterSpec helps decision-makers determine source, type, amount of radiation in real time LIVERMORE, Calif. — When law enforcement officers and first responders arrive at an emergency involving radiation, they need a way to swiftly assess the situation to keep the public an…
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Ethan Chan, Alf Morales, and Will Johnson

Beating the heat with nanoparticle films
August 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It is a truth acknowledged throughout much of the world, that a car sitting in the sun on a summer’s day must be sweltering. However, a partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and Santa Fe, New Mexico-based IR Dynamics may soon challenge that truth. Together they are turning...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Materials physicist Paul Clem holds a sample of nanoparticle coated glass in front of an office building.

Aerospace test at Sandia goes green with alternative to explosives
August 30, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight.The new method — called the Alternative Pyr…
Categories: Space / Astronomy
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Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia’s Z machine
August 28, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine. Z, the most energetic laboratory X-ray source on Earth, can duplicate the X-rays surrounding black holes that otherwise can be watched only from a...
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Sandia Labs joins Innovate ABQ at UNM’s Lobo Rainforest building
August 25, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will open an office this fall in The University of New Mexico’s Lobo Rainforest building, a 160,000-square-foot multiuse center that is the first piece of Innovate ABQ, a seven-acre downtown hub of the Innovation Central district in Albuquerque. “Sandia is an integral part of...
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Biofuels from bacteria
August 21, 2017 • Sandia helps HelioBioSys understand new clean energy sourceLIVERMORE, Calif.—You might not cook with this sugar, but from a biofuels standpoint, it’s pretty sweet. A Bay Area company has patented a group of three single-celled, algae-like organisms that, when grown toget…
Categories: Renewable energy, Transportation

Balloons and drones and clouds; oh, my!
August 14, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Last week, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories flew a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system, colloquially known as a drone, together for the first time to get Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than ever before. In addition to providing more precise data for weather...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water
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Dave Novick examines an octocopter against a background of grey clouds

Trio of Sandia women recognized as leaders in STEM, diversity
August 9, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia women have received a Women Worth Watching Award, presented by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Chemical engineers Carol Adkins and Justine Johannes each received a Women Worth Watching in STEM Award and were recently profiled in the special STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) edition of...
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World’s smallest neutrino detector finds big physics fingerprint
August 3, 2017 • Sandia part of COHERENT experiment to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scatteringLIVERMORE, California — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have helped solve a mystery that has plagued physicists for 43 years. Using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, …
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David Reyna and Belkis Cabrera-Palmer

New Sandia fellowship named after first female director of nuclear security lab
July 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has established a new fellowship program, named after its immediate past director, Jill Hruby, in hopes of attracting and recruiting talented women in engineering and science fields who are interested in becoming technical l…
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Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries focus of Sandia Labs study
July 13, 2017 • LIVERMORE, California — Maritime transportation has emerged as one solution to the traffic gridlock that plagues coastal cities. But with urban passenger ferries operating in sensitive environments and tourist areas, hydrogen fuel cell-powered passenger ferries offer a qui…
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Transportation
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Joe Pratt and Myra Blaylock

Clean water that’s ‘just right’ with Sandia sensor solution
July 11, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Water utilities have a Goldilocks problem: If they don’t add enough chlorine, nasty bacteria that cause typhoid and cholera survive the purification process. Too much chlorine produces disinfection byproducts such as chloroform, which increase cancer …
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology
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Curtis Mowry and Mike Siegal with tiny nanoporous carbon coated SAW sensors in front of blue water pipes

New Mexico firm uses motion of the ocean to bring fresh water to coastal communities
July 5, 2017 • Sandia Labs provides a fourth year of technical help ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hurricane Katrina whipped up huge, powerful waves that caused severe destruction in 2005 along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Their size and strength convinced Phil Kithil of Santa Fe, New Mexico, there had to be a way to harness...
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Scintillating discovery at Sandia Labs
June 29, 2017 • Bright thinking leads to breakthrough in nuclear threat detection scienceLIVERMORE, Calif. — Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has dramatically improved the science of scintillators — objects that detect nuclear threats. Accor…
Categories: Homeland security, Materials Science, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Side-by-side comparison of scintillators made from trans-stilbene and organic glass.

Sandia researchers named IEEE fellows
June 27, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, known as IEEE. Bryan Oliver, senior manager of the Radiation Effects Sciences and Applications Department, was named for his contributions to the theory and simulation of intense particle beams and...
Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering
Bryan Oliver

Finding a molecular needle in a haystack
June 26, 2017 • Sandia Labs creates better ‘fingerprints’ to detect elusive, valuable chemical compoundsLIVERMORE, Calif. — Imagine being able to see the entire Statue of Liberty and a small ant on its nose simultaneously. The drastic difference in size between the two objects would s…
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Bálint Sztáray and David Osborn
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