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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...
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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). Titanium-dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles show great promise as fillers to tune the refractive...
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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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AREVA Solar building on Sandia’s molten salt expertise
June 12, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A soaring structure on the south side of the Department of Energy’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) combines two cutting-edge technologies in concentrating solar energy: Compact Linear Fresnel Reflectors and molten salt thermal storage. Using them together is a pioneering concept. Today’s Compact Linear Fresnel systems...
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AREVA

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 nanotubes LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with collaborators from Rice University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, are developing new terahertz detectors based on carbon nanotubes that could lead to significant improvements in medical...
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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...
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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) sector. The society is the world’s largest association for the licensing and intellectual...
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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

High school girls honored for math, science achievements
May 30, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories’ California site recently presented its annual Math and Science Awards to 27 girls from area high schools, celebrating their academic accomplishments and potential. “For more than two decades, Sandia has recognized young women from various public schools for academic excellence,” said the vice president...
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Get ready for the computers of the future
May 27, 2014 • Sandia National Laboratories launches push to innovate next-generation machines ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like, from next-generation supercomputers to systems that learn on their own — new machines that do more while...
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Francois Leonard

Sandia researcher Mike Desjarlais wins 2014 IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award
May 23, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Plasma Science and Applications Award has been won by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mike Desjarlais. His work was cited for “pioneering contributions to the understanding of electrical and thermal transport properties, and [for] equations of state for materials...
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Michael Desjarlais

Planting the “SEEDS” of solar technology in the home
May 20, 2014 • Data-rich predictive models help determine which consumers buy solar equipment and why LIVERMORE, Calif. — In an effort to better understand what persuades people to buy photovoltaic (PV) systems for their homes, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are gathering data on consumer motivations that can feed sophisticated computer models and...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Renewables, other energy issues to be focus of enhanced Sandia, SINTEF collaboration
May 19, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— A decades-long partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Norwegian research organization SINTEF (Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning) will now tackle energy challenges such as renewable energy integration, electric grid modernization, gas technologies and algae-based biofuels, under an expanded agreement. SINTEF is the largest independent research organization...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Transportation

Sandia chemist Mitch Anstey to illuminate the Smithsonian Future Is Here Festival
May 16, 2014, Media Advisory • WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chemist Mitch Anstey of Sandia National Laboratories will join Patrick Stewart, George Takei, Brian Greene, Sara Seager and other notable minds from the galaxy of science and science fiction at Smithsonian Magazine’s The Future Is Here Festival on May 16-18 in Washington, D.C. Anstey’s talk, “Let’s Make...
Categories: Chemistry, Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering
Mitch Anstey

The brain: key to a better computer
May 15, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Your brain is incredibly well-suited to handling whatever comes along, plus it’s tough and operates on little energy. Those attributes — dealing with real-world situations, resiliency and energy efficiency — are precisely what might be possible with neuro-inspired computing. “Today’s computers are wonderful at bookkeeping and solving...
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia National Laboratories researchers are drawing inspiration from neurons in the brain, such as these green fluorescent protein-labeled neurons in a mouse neocortex, with the aim of developing neuro-inspired computing systems to reboot computing

Scientists help entrepreneurs make business dreams come true
May 12, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bill Watts knows a thing or two about data-center computers. One is that they’re dangerous to move. “A server cabinet is 8 feet tall with 3,500 pounds of equipment,” he said. “If it starts to tip over, there’s no way you can stop it.” Watts, an Intel...
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Sandia completes major overhaul of key nuclear weapons test facilities
May 8, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories recently completed the renovation of five large-scale test facilities that are crucial to ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons systems. The work supports Sandia’s ongoing nuclear stockpile modernization work on the B61-12 and W88 Alt, assessments of current stockpile systems...
Categories: History, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
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American Physical Society names four Sandia fellows
May 7, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four Sandia researchers have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society, an honor that indicates recognition by scientific peers of exceptional contributions to physics. No more than one half of 1 percent of APS membership can be elected in a given year. Those honored are: Charles...
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Engineering better machines and buildings by understanding mechanics of materials
May 5, 2014 • Sandia project to fill gaps by linking atomic structure with how parts perform ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Humans have used metals for thousands of years, but there’s still a lot about them that isn’t fully understood. Just how much stretching, bending or compression a particular metal will take is determined by...
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Sandia National Laboratories researcher Brad Salzbrenner tests laser-welded objects in pure tension, shear and mixed tension-shear loading. One pilot study in Sandia's long-term Predicting Performance Margins program involves laser welds, which are widely used in engineered systems.

Cyber Technologies Academy at Sandia offers free classes to high school students
May 2, 2014, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In the rapidly changing world of cybersecurity, who better to learn from than the professionals who live in that world every day? High school students are getting just that opportunity through Sandia National Laboratories’ Cyber Technologies Academy, free classes for high school students interested in computer science...
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Cyber Technologies Academy

Widespread hydrogen fueling infrastructure goal of H2FIRST project
April 30, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— As hydrogen fuel cell vehicles continue to roll out in increasing numbers, the infrastructure for fueling them must expand as well. To this end, a new project launched by the Energy Department and led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Rene…
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IEEE honors two Sandia researchers as fellows
April 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Mike Cuneo and Igal Brener have been selected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Cuneo was selected for “developments in inertial confinement fusion with magnetically-driven-implosions and electrode cleaning.” Over the course of his 25-year Sandia career, he has pursued...
Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Tech transfer program shares Sandia’s science, creates jobs for two decades
April 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For 20 years, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been able to leave to start or join small companies, knowing they can return. Their work has made a difference: creating jobs, bringing Sandia expertise into the private sector and boosting economic development, a new survey shows. “The Entrepreneurial...
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