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2014 Rank Prize for envisioning strained-layer superlattices awarded to Sandia Fellow

April 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In 1982, then-Sandia National Laboratories researcher Gordon Osbourn published a theoretical paper that asserted the previously unthinkable: that ultra-thin layers of mismatched atomic lattices could overcome the strain of their union and successfully form a defect-free bond. Going against the grain of the times, Osbourn’s calculations stimulated...

Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: laser, materials science, military, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, Rank Prize, semiconductors, superlattices

Airport security officers at TSA gaining insight from Sandia human behavior studies

April 21, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— A recent Sandia National Laboratories study offers insight into how a federal transportation security officer’s thought process can influence decisions made during airport baggage screening, findings that are helping the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) improve the performance of its security officers. The TSA-funded project, led by Sandia researchers...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: airport security, cognitive, DHS, Homeland security, human behavior, psychologist, psychology, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

Pocket-sized anthrax detector aids global agriculture

April 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper. Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, is commonly found in soils all over the world and can cause serious, and often fatal,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: anthrax detection, Aquila, BaDx, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, International Biological Threat Reduction, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Low-cost, hydrogen-powered forklifts with rapid refueling, zero emissions coming soon

April 15, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell systems soon could be powering the forklifts used in warehouses and other industrial settings at lower costs and with faster refueling times than ever before, courtesy of a partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers (HHC). The goal of the project is...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: forklift, hydrogen fuel cell

Wind tunnel tests support improved aerodynamic design of B61-12 bomb

April 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has finished eight days of testing a full-scale mock unit representing the aerodynamic characteristics of the B61-12 gravity bomb in a wind tunnel. The tests on the mock-up were done to establish the configuration that will deliver the necessary spin motion of the bomb...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: Air Force, B61, nuclear, nuclear weapons, Sandia National Laboratories, stockpile, wind tunnel test

Resilient cities focus of new Sandia, Rockefeller Foundation pact to help 100 communities

April 1, 2014 • Scientific, engineering solutions for disaster recovery, sustainability ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will bring decades of experience solving problems with practical engineering and modeling complex systems to cities around the world under a new agreement to support the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. The...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Alameda, Berkeley, Boulder, El Paso, Los Angeles, New York City, Norfolk, Oakland, resilience, resiliency, resilient infrastructure, Rockefeller Foundation, San Francisco

Entrepreneur teams with Sandia scientists to bring life-saving vaccines to far reaches of the world

March 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Getting life-saving vaccines to the most remote parts of the world is no easy feat. Biopharmaceuticals are highly sensitive to heat and cold and can perish if their temperature shifts a few degrees. “The vast majority of the world’s population lives in areas where electricity and refrigeration...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Clearing up cloudy understanding on solar power plant output

March 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories engineers have been studying the most effective ways to use solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays — a clean, affordable and renewable way to keep the power on. Systems are relatively easy to install and have relatively small maintenance costs. They begin working immediately and can...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: electrical grid, PV, solar, sunshot, University of California

Moving technologies from the lab to the marketplace

March 13, 2014, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Representatives from national labs, universities and business will gather for a Cleantech Open Business Briefing on March 18 at Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) to highlight how those entities are working together to develop clean technologies and take them into the marketplace. The Cleantech...

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: business, economic development, innovation, Swalwell, technology

Sandia pair honored by Travis AFB for helping service members, families

March 12, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Two members of Sandia National Laboratories’ Military Support Committee (MSC) in Livermore, Calif., have been awarded a special commendation in recognition of their efforts to assist enlisted families in need at Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, Calif. The award ceremony took place March 8, with Brig....

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense

Topics: Air Force, basket brigade, military, veterans

Brig. Gen. John C. Flournoy Jr., second from left, presents a U.S. flag to Heather Egtervanwissekerke, to the left of the flag, and Michele Clark of Sandia National Laboratories' Military Support Committee at the 945th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Travis AFB.

Cargo security partnership takes home national tech transfer award

March 10, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and two collaborators won the national Federal Laboratory Consortium’s 2014 Interagency Partnership Award. The award recognizes agency and/or laboratory employees from at least two organizations who together did outstanding work in transferring technology. The winning partnership included Sandia, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems...

Categories: Awards, Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact, Transportation

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, defense, economic development, economic impact, engineers, flc, Homeland security, military, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer

Magnetically stimulated flow patterns offer strategy for heat transfer problems

March 6, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Jim Martin and Kyle Solis have what Martin calls “a devil of a problem.” They’ve discovered how to harness magnetic fields to create vigorous, organized fluid flows in particle suspensions. The magnetically stimulated flows offer an alternative when heat transfer is difficult because...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemistry, convection, heat transfer, physics

Laminar-flow cleanroom inventor honored posthumously by National Inventors Hall of Fame

March 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized manufacturing in electronics and pharmaceuticals, made hospital operating rooms safer and advanced space exploration. Whitfield, the son of Texas cotton farmers who became...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cleanroom, National Inventors Hall of Fame, patent, semiconductors

Sandia Labs tops $6 million in United Way donations

February 27, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2013 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico by 8.2 percent over the previous year, giving $6,050,426 to the charitable organization. “This level of generosity is astounding,” said Kelly Westlake, Sandia’s 2013 Employee Caring Program campaign chair....

Categories: Community / Education

Topics: community, donations, involvement, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, United Way

Portable hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide green, sustainable power to Honolulu port

February 25, 2014 • Deployment project builds on earlier study’s optimistic results LIVERMORE, Calif.— Clean hydrogen power that’s expected to lower emissions and reduce energy consumption will be coming to the Port of Honolulu in 2015 after the completion of a new fuel cell technology demonstration, one that could lead to a commercial technology...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: EERE, fuel cell, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, Honolulu, hydrogen fuel cell, Young Brothers

Economic impact report spotlights Sandia’s commitment to business

February 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $975 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2013 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $420 million, or 43 percent, of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S. small businesses received nearly $500 million in...

Categories: Community / Education, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, diversity, economic development, economic impact, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, report, small business

Sandia’s Greg White chosen as a New Face of Engineering 2014

February 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia engineer Greg White has been chosen as one of the 2014 New Faces of Engineering, a recognition program that highlights the work of engineers ages 30 and younger. The award is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, now the DiscoverE Foundation, a coalition of engineering...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, B61, Clemson University, engineering, NACME, National Engineers Week

White House honors four early-career Sandia researchers

February 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers Matthew Brake, Adrian Chavez, Seth Root and Daniel Stick have been named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor the U.S. government gives outstanding scientists and engineers who are...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, pecase, Sandia

Agreement lets Sandia, UNM staff work side-by-side

February 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has launched a new kind of collaboration designed to strengthen its research bonds with the University of New Mexico (UNM). “This is another sign of the close and deepening partnership between two of the pre-eminent research institutions in the state,” Sandia Vice President and...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer, technology, University of New Mexico, unm

Threat reduction: Hruby leads Sandia effort to counter weapons of mass destruction

February 14, 2014, Media Advisory • Sandia Labs vice president to speak at AAAS annual meeting CHICAGO, Ill. — Threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction don’t seem as imminent today as they did after terrorists flew hijacked planes into the first World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed in a Pennsylvania field, but...

Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Homeland security

Topics: AAAS, american association for the advancement of science, chicago, Homeland security

Computer power clicks with geochemistry

January 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is developing computer models that show how radioactive waste interacts with soil and sediments, shedding light on waste disposal and how to keep contamination away from drinking water. “Very little is known about the fundamental chemistry and whether contaminants will stay in soil or...

Categories: Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: computing, geochemistry, Geoscience, molecular modeling, national laboratories, national labs, radioactive waste, research, technology, waste disposal

Black Engineer of the Year honoree inspires youth to excel in STEM

January 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s more to receiving a Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) award than being a winner, says Aaron Brundage of Sandia National Laboratories. “The intent of the award is to provide guidance to young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM),” he says....

Categories: Awards, Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, BEYA, black engineers, community, diversity, education, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, STEM

Sandia conducts first impact test in years of B61 nonnuclear components

January 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A ground-penetrating bomb, minus its nuclear components, rammed through a target at the remote Coyote Canyon test range last month in Sandia National Laboratories’ first such rocket-driven impact test in seven years. Engineers said the Sandia components on the weapon performed as expected. “Really nice work,” said...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: B61, bomb, large-scale testing, nuclear, nuclear weapons

Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect

January 9, 2014 • Control of widely recognized distortion may allow greater output at Sandia’s Z machine ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A surprising effect created by a 19th century device called a Helmholtz pair offers clues about how to achieve controlled nuclear fusion at Sandia National Laboratories’ powerful Z machine. A Helmholz coil produces a...

Categories: Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Helmholz coils, instabilities, magLIF, magnetic fields, nuclear fusion, Rayleigh-Taylor, z machine

California educators win Sandia Excellence in Teaching awards

December 20, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore, Calif., site presented two local teachers with Excellence in Teaching Awards at the regular meeting of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District’s Board of Education on Dec. 10. Terry Greenaway, a science specialist at Jackson Avenue Elementary School, and Kathy Hallenbeck, a chemistry...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education

Topics: education, Jackson Avenue Elementary School, Livermore High School, Livermore Valley Education Foundation, STEM, teacher

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