February 27, 2012 • Sandia National Laboratories has developed an experimental “smart outlet” that autonomously measures, monitors and controls electrical loads with no connection to a centralized computer or system. The goal of the smart outlet and similar innovations is to make the power grid more distributed and intelligent, capable of reconfiguring itself as...
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Asian American Engineer of the Year honors three Sandians
February 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories scientists are among 19 people from across the United States receiving 2012 Asian American Engineer of the Year awards. The AAEOY program and awards ceremony will be held in Albuquerque on March 2-3 at the Marriott Uptown. “It is a great honor to...
SPIDERS microgrid project secures military installations
February 22, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When the lights go out, most of us find flashlights, dig out board games and wait for the power to come back. But that’s not an option for hospitals and military installations, where lives are on the line. Power outages can have disastrous consequences for such critical...
Sandia seeks better neural control of prosthetics for amputees
February 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sandia National Laboratories researchers, using off-the-shelf equipment in a chemistry lab, have been working on ways to improve amputees’ control over prosthetics with direct help from their own nervous systems. Organic materials chemist Shawn Dirk, robotics engineer Steve Buerger and others are creating biocompatible interface scaffolds. The...
Sandia National Laboratories researchers find energy storage “solutions” in MetILs
February 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries. The research, published in Dalton Transactions, might lead to devices that can help economically and reliably incorporate...
Sandia’s Maynard Holliday named Volunteer of the Year by Citizen Schools
February 16, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Maynard Holliday, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named Volunteer of the Year by Citizen Schools California for his work as a volunteer teacher at Oakland’s Elmhurst Community Prep Middle School. An engineer by training who spends his days tackling national security issues for Sandia,...
Categories: Community / Education, Operations / Budget
Anthrax-killing foam proves effective in meth lab cleanup
February 16, 2012 • Sandia’s decontamination foam, developed more than a decade ago and used to decontaminate federal office buildings and mailrooms during the 2001 anthrax attacks, is now being used to decontaminate illegal methamphetamine labs. Mark Tucker, a chemical engineer in Sandia’s Chemical & Biological Systems Dept. and co-creator of the original decontamination...
Sandia employees donating $4.92 million
February 14, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia Labs employees in New Mexico pledged to give a record-breaking $4.66 million to nonprofits through the United Way of Central New Mexico during the annual fall Employee Caring Program campaign. With contributions earlier from Sandia’s employees in Livermore, Calif., the total raised for charitable causes during...
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Sandia tool determines value of solar photovoltaic power systems
January 31, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Consistent appraisals of homes and businesses outfitted with photovoltaic (PV) installations are a real challenge for the nation’s real estate industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Solar Power Electric™ and licensed by Sandia addresses that issue. Sandia scientists, in partnership with Jamie...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Sandia’s self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away
January 30, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters. (Click here for a video showing the prototype’s flight.) Sandia...
Economic Impact report spotlights Sandia Lab’s effect on New Mexico economy
January 26, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent close to $1 billion overall on the procurement of goods and services in fiscal year 2011, and small businesses across the nation were awarded more than half those dollars, $540 million or 59 percent, according to the Labs’ latest economic impact report. The...
Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
January 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Research by a team of Sandia chemists could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste. The Sandia researchers have used metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to capture and remove volatile radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel. “This is one of the first attempts to...
National Nuclear Science Week celebrates nuclear everything from energy to safety to medicine
January 19, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Each day during National Nuclear Science Week, Jan. 23-27, some 250 middle school and high school students will pack the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History for hands-on activities that span the breadth of the nuclear world. They will work on everything from atomic modeling and...
Categories: Community / Education, Nuclear Weapons
Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing
January 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing — and that’s the idea behind a power-over-fiber (PoF) communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. It’s common to isolate communications between systems or devices by using fiber optic cables, said Steve Sanderson of Sandia’s mobility...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia researchers, UK partners publish groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates in Science magazine
January 13, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In a breakthrough paper (full text/PDF) published in this week’s issue of Science magazine, researchers from Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester and Bristol University report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-phase Criegee intermediate using photoionization mass spectrometry. (Click here to see a short video...
Sandia cyber project looks to help IT professionals with complex Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerabilities
January 11, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global IT community better understand Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) and to help them troubleshoot problems. (Click here to see a short video of...
Categories: Computing
Topics: computer, cyber security, DNS, DNSSEC, Domain Name System, internet, national labs, network, research, Sandia
Sandia continues long tradition of holiday giving
December 22, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories continues a more than 50-year tradition of generosity with donations of gifts of shoes, toys, gift cards and food. This year, more than 500 children benefitted from Sandia’s longest holiday tradition, Shoes for Kids, which was started in Sandia’s early days by two scientists...
Vermont-Sandia Partnership announces Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation
December 13, 2011 • Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sandia National Laboratories Vice President Rick Stulen have announced a $15 million, three-year partnership to establish a joint Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation to be housed at the University of Vermont. Researchers at the center will collaborate on research in areas...
Sandia transportation fuels expert says policy makers need to think about practical ways to reach new energy goals
December 8, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A transportation fuels expert from Sandia National Laboratories says policy makers should consider such practical issues as the number of gas stations selling ethanol and how long it takes to get new transportation technologies to market as they introduce aggressive federal and state energy policies. “Policymakers need...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water
Voltage increases up to 25% observed in closely packed nanowires at Sandia Labs
December 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Unexpected voltage increases of up to 25 percent in two barely separated nanowires have been observed at Sandia National Laboratories. Designers of next-generation devices using nanowires to deliver electric currents — including telephones, handheld computers, batteries and certain solar arrays — may need to make allowances for...
Categories: Nanotechnology
Sandia webinar to discuss real estate appraisals for photovoltaic installations
December 1, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Finding a way to appraise residential and commercial properties with photovoltaic installations is a growing challenge facing the nation’s real estate industry. As more homes and businesses turn to solar PV power, the need grows for ways to fairly assess the value of the installations and the...
Categories: Media advisories, Renewable energy
Rankings released for supercomputers doing “big data”
November 15, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—The list of supercomputers entered in the Graph500 competition now features 50 competitors, up from nine in its initial release a year ago, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy, chair of the Graph500 steering committee. New rankings were released Tuesday in Seattle at SC2011, the international conference for...
Categories: Computing, Operations / Budget
Sandia’s Annular Core Research Reactor conducts 10,000th operation
October 31, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – With a muffled “pop,” a flash of blue light and a few ripples through 14,000 gallons of deionized water, Sandia National Laboratories’ Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) recently conducted its 10,000th operation. “The ACRR has been a real workhorse for Sandia, and labs leadership and the nation...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia/California SHARE campaign exceeds goal, pledges $266,750 to regional charities
October 27, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Exceeding their stated goal by more than $10,000, employees at Sandia National Laboratories/California in Livermore pledged more than $266,750 to local and regional charities this year through the Labs’ annual Sandia Helps and Reaches Everyone (SHARE) campaign. “I’m proud of the commitment our employees have demonstrated to...
Categories: Operations / Budget
High-quality white light produced by four-color laser source
October 26, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The human eye is as comfortable with white light generated by diode lasers as with that produced by increasingly popular light-emitting diodes (LEDs), according to tests conceived at Sandia National Laboratories. Both technologies pass electrical current through material to generate light, but the simpler LED emits lights...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science
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