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Sandia conducts tests at Solar Tower to benefit future NASA space explorations

September 7, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the last two years, tests have been conducted at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility to see how materials used for NASA’s future planetary exploration missions can withstand severe radiant heating.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Solar power heats NASA space shield material. The tests apply heat equivalent to 1,500 suns to spacecraft shields.

Asteroid dust may influence weather, study finds

August 25, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth’s weather more than previously believed, researchers have found.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

The asteroid's dust trail as seen by lidar at Davis, Antarctica. The plot shows the strength of the vertical laser light scattered back from the atmosphere as a function of time and altitude above mean sea level. The dust trail, blown by the stratospheric winds, moved through the beam.

Sandia researchers to study techniques for arsenic removal from drinking water

August 24, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the next several months a team of researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will be studying different methods of arsenic removal at the Desert Sands Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association (MDWCA)...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia researchers Malcolm Siegel and Malynda Aragon check out the arsenic treatment system that was built at Sandia and recently relocated to the Desert Sands utility.

Sandia’s dielectrophoresis device may revolutionize sample preparation

August 23, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have developed an enhancement to a well known “force phenomenon” called dielectrophoresis that they say could revolutionize the way biological sample preparation is conducted. Sandia is actively...

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Sandia’s Eric Cummings visually inspects an iDEP device for proper alignment before evaluating it with a fluorescent microscope. Among other potential applications, iDEP may allow for protein isolation and concentration, sample concentration and focusing, analytical chemistry, and mass spectrometry for proteomics and drug discovery.

Sandia assists NASA with several shuttle projects

August 17, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Several Sandia National Laboratories projects were instrumental in helping NASA with its Space Shuttle Discovery’s return-to-flight mission (STS-114).

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Sandia’s orbitor inspection sensor was attached to Discovery's robotic arm.

ElectroNeedles may provide diabetes patients a painless way to check blood glucose levels

August 2, 2005 • Albuquerque, N.M.— Two tiny devices recently developed by researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories could mean the elimination of blood drawing by diabetes patients to test glucose levels or by medical personnel to determine if...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

JEB FLEMMING, project lead for the ElectroNeedle platform, holds a test version of the device. The prickly parts are in the center of the package. A production version could be even smaller and simpler.

Jaime Moya awarded HENAAC Award for Professional Achievement

August 2, 2005 • Albuquerque, N.M.— Jaime Moya, a senior manager for ES&H Planning & Assurance at Sandia National Laboratories, is the winner of a 2005 Award for Professional Achievement from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation. The award will be presented at the 2005...

Categories: Awards

Sandia begins arsenic removal demonstration project in Anthony, N.M.

July 28, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A pilot plant to evaluate commercially available technologies for removing arsenic from municipal drinking water supplies will begin operating in mid-August in Anthony, N.M.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Four R&D 100 Awards won by Sandia Labs

July 28, 2005 • Albuquerque, N.M.— In this year's R&D 100 awards – awarded annually by teams of technical experts selected by Chicago-based R&D Magazine ─ Sandia National Laboratories won four awards, including a joint winning entry with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

Categories: Awards

Sandia and U.S. Army’s America’s Army simulation helps Special Forces learn adaptive thinking and cultural awareness

July 26, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Special Forces soldiers are getting a unique education in adaptive thinking, negotiation, conflict resolution, and leadership within cross-cultural settings as a result of a new multiplayer computer simulation.

Categories: Military / Defense

Sandia completes depleted uranium study

July 21, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has completed a two-year study of the potential health effects associated with accidental exposure to depleted uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf War.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia researcher shares European physics prize for work; observations transformed Z-pinch field

July 13, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some physicists believe that the pulses of power formed in a technique called a Z-pinch may one day be a more efficient source of fusion power than magnetic confinement used by Tokamak reactors, the current leading contender for controlled nuclear fusion.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Silly Putty probe at Sandia yields non-silly results about time-dependent material properties

July 8, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Squaring off with Silly Putty® — a material scientist’s worst nightmare — a Sandia National Laboratories researcher has demonstrated that a unique microscope quick enough to measure changes in this “liquid solid” may be the most effective tool for measuring...

Categories: Materials Science

Sandia researcher Jack Houston stretched his imagination to come up with a novel way to study complex polymer matrices, for which this sample of Silly Putty® served as a proxy material.

Components of Deep Impact rocket checked at Sandia for radiation hardening

July 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the rods of radioactive cobalt-60 rose from their lair, an 18-ft.-deep pool in the Gamma Irradiation Facility of Sandia National Laboratories.

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The largest of GIF’s three test cells, spacious enough to irradiate large objects such as tanks and satellites.

Team investigates Active Denial System for security applications

June 30, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A multi-organizational team is adapting for DOE use a technology that can help keep security adversaries out of DOE sites that contain nuclear assets.

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Nonlethal weaponry — Sandia researchers Willy Morse and James Pacheco fine-tune the small-sized Active Denial System.

Sandia develops secure wireless technology

June 21, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories in cooperation with Time Domain Corporation and KoolSpan Inc. has developed a secure wireless Ultra Wideband (UWB) data communication network that can be used to help sensors monitor U.S. Air Force bases and DOE nuclear...

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Sandia engineer H. Timothy Cooley says the wireless Ultra wideband (UWB) data communication network improves performance to accommodate the increased data rate needed by advanced sensors.

Synthetic aperture radar may soon be used for reconnaissance on small UAVs

June 20, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories flew what is probably the world’s smallest fine-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in May, making real-time images from the 6-kilometer range with a resolution...

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HOW SWEET IT IS — Researchers April Sweet and Michael Holzrichter examine a miniSAR package similar to the configuration that has flown for the first time on a Twin Otter aircraft.

Three Sandia employees named to ‘Top Hispanics in Technology and Business’ list

June 17, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories employees have been named to the “Top Hispanics in Technology and Business” list for 2005 by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine.

Categories: HR / Personnel

Sandia, FAA, NASA create computer model for fire detection in airliner cargo compartments

June 16, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A project to improve the false alarm rate and to standardize the certification of fire detection systems in cargo compartments of commercial aircraft is underway with major participation by Sandia National Laboratories, the Federal Aviation Administration...

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Team discovers unsuspected intermediates in the chemistry of combustion

June 10, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility are part of an international team that has detected a new class of compounds previously unknown in flames, a breakthrough that could lead to soot reduction, decreases in flame...

Categories: Chemistry

This low-pressure, flame-sampling apparatus shows a rich flame burning in the vacuum chamber. The quartz cone through which flame gases are sampled is visible entering from the right of the apparatus. The tip is glowing because of incandescence of soot deposits on the cone. The burner is on the left; it can be moved horizontally so that gases are sampled from different positions in the flame.

Sandia researchers develop unique ‘surfactant’ material

June 7, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – A unique class of materials developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., may prove useful in textile manufacturing, biomedical diagnostics, and other applications requiring the modification of surface properties of liquids...

Categories: Materials Science

Left, a cleavable surfactant in aqueous solution dissolves an oil-soluble dye. Right, that same system forms an emulsion when oil is added.

Z fires objects faster than Earth moves through space

June 6, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Labs has accelerated a small plate from zero to 76,000 mph in less than a second.

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ARE YOU GOOD FOR ANOTHER 15 KM/SEC? — Sandia researcher Marcus Knudson considers his favorite apparatus: the Z insert that sends flyer plates hurling at phenomenal speeds.

Texas Tech wins Sandia MEMS design contest

June 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Students from Texas Tech University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have won this year’s annual MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) design competition sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia, APS, UNM collaborate to meet No Child Left Behind requirement

May 25, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Teachers from middle and elementary schools in Albuquerque and other parts of New Mexico will have the opportunity to build their science teaching skills this summer in an effort to meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirement for “highly qualified”...

Categories: Community / Education

EESAT 2005 conference scheduled for October

May 19, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Electricity Storage Association announced today they are sponsors of EESAT 2005, the fifth biennial conference on Electrical Energy Storage Systems Applications and Technologies, to be...

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

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