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Sandia honored for fighting Ebola, analyzing emerging biotechnologies

April 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The work of Sandia National Laboratories at the intersection of biology and national security, including lifesaving efforts during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, has been recognized by the Department of Energy. On April 11, Dmitri Kusnezov, chief scientist and senior adviser to the secretary of energy, visited Sandia...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: biodefense, biological threats, computer modeling, computer modeling and simulation, Department of Energy, DTRA, Ebola, International Biological Threat Reduction, national security, public health, secretary of energy, Secretary of Energy Appreciation Awards, transportation modeling

Paula Austin outside an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

Better living through pressure: functional nanomaterials made easy

April 18, 2017, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Using pressure instead of chemicals, a Sandia National Laboratories team has fabricated nanoparticles into nanowire-array structures similar to those that underlie the surfaces of touch-screens for sensors, computers, phones and TVs. The pressure-based fabrication process takes nanoseconds. Chemistry-based industrial techniques take hours. The process, called stress-induced fabrication,...

Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: flat screens, imprint, nanorods, nanoscale, nanosheets, nanowires, semiconductor defects, stress-induced fabrication, touch-screens

Drop of mock B61-12 is first of new flight tests

April 13, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From a distance, the drop of a mock nuclear weapon — containing only non-nuclear components — was a mere puff of dust rising from a dry lake bed at Nevada’s Tonopah Test Range. However, it marked the start of a new series of test flights vital to...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: B61-12, large-scale testing, Life Extension Program, nuclear weapons, Tonopah

Predicting the limits of friction: Sandia looks at properties of material

March 23, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Normally, bare metal sliding against bare metal is not a good thing. Friction will destroy pistons in an engine, for example, without lubrication.Sometimes, however, functions require metal on metal contact, such as in headphone jacks or electrical syst…

Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

New brain-inspired cybersecurity system detects ‘bad apples’ 100 times faster

March 21, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Cybersecurity is critical — for national security, corporations and private individuals. Sophisticated cybersecurity systems excel at finding “bad apples” in computer networks, but they lack the computing power to identify the threats directly. Instead, they look for general indicators of an attack; call them “apples.” Or the...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Cybersecurity

Topics: cybersecurity, LDRD, neuromorphic computing, neuroscience, partnerships, R&D100

Roger Suppona, John Naegle, and David Follett hold Neuromorphic Cyber Microscope.

Testing for Zika virus: there’s an app for that

March 20, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Add rapid, mobile testing for Zika and other viruses to the list of things that smartphone technology is making possible. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device that weighs …

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

Topics: chikungunya virus, dengue, DNA, mosquito-borne disease, Zika

Power partners: Sandia draws industry into quest for cheaper, cleaner electricity

March 16, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is working with three industry partners to commercialize a distributed power system that can produce cheaper, cleaner, more efficient electricity. The labs signed three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with Peregrine Turbine Technologies of Wiscasset, Maine; Xdot Engineering and Analysis of Charlottesville, Virginia; and...

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

Topics: brayton cycle, business, collaboration, distributed power, economic development, electricity, energy, partnerships, power cycle, tech transfer

Dan Sinars represents Sandia in first energy leadership class

March 13, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dan Sinars, a senior manager in Sandia National Laboratories’ pulsed power center, which built and operates the Z facility, is the sole representative from a nuclear weapons lab in a Department of Energy leadership program that recently visited Sandia. Members of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: Department of Energy, fusion energy, leadership, pulsed power, z machine

Guiding Light: Sandia creates 3-D metasurfaces with optical possibilities

March 9, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Metamaterials don’t exist in nature, but their ability to make ultra-thin lenses and ultra-efficient cell phone antennas, bend light to keep satellites cooler and let photovoltaics absorb more energy mean they offer a world of possibilities. Formed by nanostructures that act as “atoms,” arranged on a substrate...

Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: beams, cell phone antennas, frequency converters, lasers, metamaterials, optical filters, photovoltaics, satellites

Plants at the pump

March 6, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif.—Regular, unleaded or algae?[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories biochemist Carolyn Fisher examines a beaker full of microscopic algae eaters called rotifers being grown for the DISCOVR project. (Photo by Dino Vournas…

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Transportation

Topics: algal biofuels, auto engine, car engine, EERE

Sandia scientist named fellow for diverse contributions to aeronautics, space research

March 2, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gary Polansky, the chief scientist for hypersonic technology development and applications at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). AIAA, the world’s largest aerospace professional society, confers the distinction of fellow to recognize professionals’ notable and valuable...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense

Topics: AIAA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, conventional prompt global strike, hypersonic, kinetic energy projectile, Mars Science Laboratoryic, university of texas

Evaluating nuclear weapons: Sandia Labs taking a modern approach

March 1, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is transforming how it assesses nuclear weapons in a stockpile made up of weapons at different stages in their lifecycles — some systems that have existed for decades alongside those that have undergone life extension prog…

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: nuclear weapon modernization, nuclear weapons, stockpile stewardship

Super plants need super ROOTS

February 28, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Agriculture consumes about 80 percent of all U.S. water. Making fertilizers uses 1 to 2 percent of all the world’s energy each year.[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories' Ronen Polsky, left, Ron Manginell, center, …

Categories: Biology

Topics: agriculture, ARPA-E, crops, drought-tolerant crops, gas chromatography, LDRD, micro-GC systems, microneedles, minimally invasive, plant health, VOCs

Ronen Polsky, Ron Manginell, and Philip Miller hold tiny sensors surrounded by a warehouse of plants.

Exploring the evolution of nuclear deterrence through interviews, historical footage

February 28, 2017, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories explores the evolution of nuclear deterrence in a new documentary that combines modern and historical footage with a wide range of interviews.On Deterrence features interviews with former secretaries of defense, general offi…

Categories: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: Cold War, deterrence, documentary, film, global security

Big changes from a small package for hydrogen storage

February 24, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sometimes, you have to go small to win big. That is the approach a multilab, interdisciplinary team took in using nanoparticles and a novel nanoconfinement system to develop a method to change hydrogen storage properties.[caption id="" align="alignleft"…

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

Sandia intern, mentor win chemical society award

February 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories student intern Julian A. Vigil and researcher Timothy N. Lambert captured a 2017 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research. Vigil will receive a financial stipend and a plaque; his mentor Lambert will receive a plaque for permanent display at Sandia....

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: electrocatalysis, electrocatalytic

Sandia researcher wins early-career computer modeling award

February 23, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Salvatore Campione of Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded the 2017 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Early Career Award “for innovative contributions to the electromagnetic modeling of complex systems and structures, from microwave to optical frequencies.” The ACES Early Career Award honors achievements and contributions in the...

Categories: Awards

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

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