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Dust-size dragonflies and microvalves make mark at annual MEMS student design contest
June 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A dragonfly as small as a dust mote, its four tiny wings beating like it had momentarily alit on a lily pad, and a highly sensitive microvalve were the big winners in this year’s student design contest for extraordinarily tiny devices at Sandia National Laboratories. The winners...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
TTU Novel design

NMSBA program seeks groups of companies facing common challenges to receive technical assistance grants
June 13, 2011 • The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA) is looking for groups of small businesses facing common challenges that could use technical assistance from researchers at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories. The NMSBA is soliciting initial proposals for 2012 leveraged projects, in which two or more small businesses to...
Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

New thermal battery manufacturing method to be industrialized under Sandia, ATB research agreement
June 1, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A new thin-film coating process for manufacturing thermal batteries used in nuclear weapons and other munitions that was invented at Sandia National Laboratories will be industrialized under a new corporate partnership with a Maryland company. The process could lead to create lighter batteries in a variety of...
Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Frank Delnick

Sandia and Cray Inc. to tackle “big data” in new supercomputing institute
May 27, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. are forming an institute focused on data-intensive supercomputers. The Supercomputing Institute for Learning and Knowledge Systems (SILKS), to be located at Sandia in Albuquerque, will take advantage of the strengths of Sandia and Cray by making software and hardware...
Categories: Computing, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Z researcher Dan Sinars awarded $2.5 million DOE Early Career grant
May 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pursuing a fruitful line of inquiry, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Dan Sinars has been awarded a $2.5 million, five-year  “Early Career Research Program” award for measuring fundamental instabilities in magnetically driven Z-pinch explosions.  Sinars’ team was the first to capture, in a series of 3-D images separated...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
Dan Sinars

Second Z plutonium “shot” safely tests materials for NNSA
May 11, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that researchers from Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories have completed their second experiment in the past six months at Sandia’s Z machine to explore the properties of plutonium materials under extreme pressures and temperatures. The information is used...
Categories: Materials Science, Nuclear Weapons
Z Machine

From fork to farm
April 21, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At Sandia’s largest cafeteria, a leftover burrito will be sent off to eventually help some backyard garden bloom. When someone leaves a bit of lunch behind at Thunderbird Café, employees send it out for composting. The composting program began in March 2010 as a pilot to divert...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget
From fork to farm

Sandia and UNM lead effort to destroy cancers
April 18, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Melding nanotechnology and medical research, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center have produced an effective strategy that uses nanoparticles to blast cancerous cells with a mélange of killer drugs. In the cover article of the May issue...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology
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Carley Ashley and Jeff Brinker

Recipe for radioactive compounds aids nuclear waste and fuel storage pools studies
April 14, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Easy-to-follow recipes for radioactive compounds like those found in nuclear fuel storage pools, liquid waste containment areas and other contaminated aqueous environments have been developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. “The need to understand the chemistry of these compounds has never been more urgent, and these...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology
The young Marie Curie?

Scientists’ ideas, businesses’ know-how spark innovation through New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program
April 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rod Dakan, owner of Royal Fiber Spinnery in Ruidoso, N.M., wanted an economical method of baling fleece from small, scattered alpaca herds for transport to the mills, so he turned to the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program for help. Royal Fiber was one of 339...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Royal Spinnery

Sandia, Los Alamos labs to honor businesses’ innovations at New Mexico Small Business Assistance event
April 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A baler design that could economically bring alpaca fleece to market. A method to remove sediment from a northern New Mexico reservoir. An improved pesticide sprayer to reduce disease-carrying mosquitoes in the developing world. These are among the 10 projects by small companies that received technical assistance in...
Categories: Media advisories, Operations / Budget

Sandia named one of ‘New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers’
March 25, 2011 • Sandia Labs was named a winner in New Mexico Business Weekly’s New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers, an award that honors employers that support employee health and wellness. Sandia won in the large company category, for organizations with more than 1,500 employees. Linda Duffy, director of Sandia’s Health, Benefits and Employee Services,...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
Healthy employees at Sandia

Sandia wins 3 national technology transfer awards for bringing ideas, research to market
March 14, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A water blade that is disabling improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan, software that detects water contamination or evidence of terrorists poisoning municipal water systems and a program that provides free technical assistance to New Mexico’s small businesses all have earned national awards for Sandia National Laboratories....
Categories: Awards, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Stingray

Supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton Cycle turbines promise giant leap in thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency
March 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent — an improvement of 50 percent for nuclear power stations equipped with...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

LAMMPS supercomputer code developer earns special recognition
March 3, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Steve Plimpton, who led development of a widely used computer code that models how materials behave, has been invited to present a keynote lecture at the Feb. 27-March 3 Minerals, Materials & Materials Society (TMS) meeting in San Diego. Plimpton developed the LAMMPS...
Categories: Computing, Materials Science
Working with the LAMMPS code

Sandia Labs’ director re-dedicates Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center
February 18, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In recognition of Sen. Pete Domenici’s decades of advocacy and support for the role the national laboratories play in protecting the nation’s security, officials at Sandia National Laboratories today re-dedicated the still relatively new Weapon Integration Facility building as the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center. With the...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
The Senator in front of the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center
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