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...
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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...
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...
Annual Robot Rodeo at Sandia National Laboratories to help prepare first responders
May 23, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Media representatives are welcome at the fifth annual Western National Robot Rodeo on Wednesday, May 25, from 8-10 a.m. at Sandia National Laboratories. The Robot Rodeo is a four-day, 10-event technical competition for bomb squads and other public safety organizations that use hazardous duty robots. “This competition...
Categories: Media advisories
Topics: robotics
Conference energizes Vermont-Sandia smart grid partnership
May 20, 2011 • A few years ago, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders attended a field hearing on concentrating solar power at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. The hearing sparked an idea that has blossomed into a nearly unprecedented collaboration to tackle a complex and important challenge to the country’s energy future: modernization of...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget
Sandia National Laboratories unlocks secrets of plague with stunning new imaging techniques
May 16, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a super-resolution microscopy technique that is answering long-held questions about exactly how and why a cell’s defenses fail against some invaders, such as plague, while successfully fending off others like E.coli. The approach is revealing never-before-seen detail of the cell...
Topics: women in STEM
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
Japanese collaboration promises to put Sandia hydrogen program on global track
May 5, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A new hydrogen research initiative based in Japan will leverage Department of Energy (DOE)-funded hydrogen research at Sandia National Laboratories’ California site and will likely become the first research effort to be rolled into a broader laboratory research umbrella aimed at increasing the laboratories’ hydrogen partnerships domestically and...
World’s smallest atomic clock on sale
May 2, 2011 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Darwin Serkland measures the wavelength of a tiny laser called a VCSEL, or vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. The image on the monitor (left) shows a bright circle of light emitted from a VCSEL operating at the wave…
Two Sandia engineers named Influencers and Innovators of Wind Power
April 28, 2011 • Sandia engineers Jose Zayas and Dale Berg were honored by Windpower Engineering magazine as two of the nation’s innovators and influencers in wind energy. Zayas, senior manager of the Renewable Energy Technologies group at Sandia National Laboratories, was named an influencer on wind energy. The magazine also named Berg, principal...
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...
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
Topics: women in STEM
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
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...
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
Local college receives a piece of Sandia/California history
March 23, 2011 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Contractors at Sandia/California prepare the LENS machine for its transfer to nearby Las Positas College. The school’s welding department plans on using the historic piece of equipment to introduce students to metal jo…
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
Sandia seeds culture of nuclear energy safety and security
March 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The growing interest among Middle Eastern nations in establishing nuclear power programs prompted a Sandia National Laboratories team to conceive and lead development of a new institute that will seed and cultivate a regional culture of responsible nuclear energy management. The Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute (GNEII),...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Nonproliferation, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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...
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
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
Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories to showcase hydrogen vehicles
February 17, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories will showcase two buses powered by hydrogen, now operating at both Livermore sites. The collaborative effort is part of a strategy for an energy sustainable future and cleaner environment. The vehicles will be on display in downtown Livermore. The public is...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water
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