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New project is the ACME of computer science to address climate change
August 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — High performance computing researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working with the Department of Energy (DOE) and other national laboratories and institutions to develop and apply the most complete climate and Earth system model, to address the most challenging and demanding climate change issues. Accelerated Climate Modeling...
Categories: Climate Change, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Chief Computational Scientist Mark Taylor

New way to report purchases better shows how Sandia Labs spends money
August 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has changed the way it categorizes purchased goods and services by linking each acquisition to a specific industry code. “This change in our data systems allows Sandia to better describe to our stakeholders, customers and the general public how we spend our money,” said...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Tech transfer awards salute innovation, commercialization at Sandia Labs
August 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC is a nationwide network of more than 300 members that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies...
Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Watching neurons fire from a front-row seat
July 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don’t know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Joint hire increases materials science collaboration for Sandia Labs, UNM
July 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have hired Fernando Garzon, a nationally recognized scientist and inventor, to work for both institutions. It is the first joint hire recruited together by Sandia and UNM. “Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Survivor: Sandia ensures US nuclear weapons deterrent can remain effective, credible
July 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It may sound strange to say that nuclear weapons must survive radiation. But as part of its mission of ensuring the nation’s stockpile is safe, secure and effective as a deterrent, Sandia National Laboratories must make sure crucial parts can function…
Categories: Computing, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Security professional at Sandia nationally recognized with annual NNSA award
July 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories security professional Paulette Solis has received the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Bradley A. Peterson Contractor Security Professional of the Year Award. This year’s federal honoree is Susan Christian-Payne of the Nevada Field Office, who received the NNSA’s Bradley A. Peterson Federal Security Professional...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
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Vehicle fuel efficiency, biofuels, climate change to be explored by world’s leading combustion scientists
July 14, 2014, Media Advisory • International symposium to feature foremost experts on fuel and combustion research LIVERMORE, Calif.— Nearly 1,500 of the world’s foremost fuels and combustion scientists and engineers will gather in San Francisco on Aug. 3-8 for the 35th International Symposium on Comb…
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Sandia researchers win three R&D 100 awards
July 11, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...
Categories: Awards, Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security
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More California gas stations can provide H2 than previously thought, Sandia study says
July 8, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concludes that a number of existing gas stations in California can safely store and dispense hydrogen, suggesting a broader network of hydrogen fueling stations may be within reach.The report examin…
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Diamond plates create nanostructures through pressure, not chemistry
June 27, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You wouldn’t think that mechanical force — the simple kind used to eject unruly patrons from bars, shoe a horse or emboss the raised numerals on credit cards — could process nanoparticles more subtly than the most advanced chemistry. Yet, in a recent paper in Nature Communications,...
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Hongyou Fan

IED detector developed by Sandia Labs being transferred to Army
June 26, 2014 • Copperhead Synthetic Aperture Radar system helps troops by detecting IEDs day or night, in any weather ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Detecting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan requires constant, intensive monitoring using rugged equipment. When Sandia researchers first demonstrated a modified miniature synthetic aperture radar (MiniSAR) system to do just that, some...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense
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Copperhead

Novel nanoparticle production method could lead to better lights, lenses, solar cells
June 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has come up with an inexpensive way to synthesize titanium-dioxide nanoparticles and is seeking partners who can demonstrate the process at industrial scale for everything from solar cells to light-emitting diodes (LEDs).Tit…
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers Dale Huber, left, and Todd Monson have come up with an inexpensive way to synthesize titanium-dioxide nanoparticles, which could be used in everything from solar cells to light-emitting diodes.

Moly 99 reactor using Sandia design could lead to U.S. supply of isotope to track disease
June 16, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque startup company has licensed a Sandia National Laboratories technology that offers a way to make molybdenum-99, a key radioactive isotope needed for diagnostic imaging in nuclear medicine, in the United States. Known as moly 99, it is made in aging nuclear reactors outside the country,...
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Improvements in MRIs, passenger screening, other image-detection applications on the horizon
June 11, 2014 • Sandia, Rice University, Tokyo Institute of Technology developing terahertz detectors with carbon nanotubesLIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with collaborators from Rice University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, are developing n…
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DOE Early Career award won by Sandia researcher Stephanie Hansen
June 9, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has been won by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Stephanie Hansen for her fundamental science proposal to improve existing atomic-scale models for high-energy-density matter. Thirty-five winners were chosen by peer...
Categories: Awards, Nuclear Weapons, Physics
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Stephanie Hansen

Licensing executive named distinguished fellow by international organization
June 5, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Craig Smith, a licensing and business development specialist at Sandia National Laboratories, has been selected as a distinguished fellow by the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) and its Chemicals, Energy, Environment and Materials (CEEM…
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Prototype electrolyte sensor provides immediate read-outs
June 3, 2014 • Painless wearable microneedle device may reduce trips to doctors’ offices ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Patients trying to navigate today’s complex medical system with its costly laboratory analyses might prefer a pain-free home diagnostic device, worn on the wrist, that can analyze, continuously record and immediately remedy low electrolyte levels. Runners, athletes...
Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry
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Ronen Polsky
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