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Reducing the traffic jam in batteries
December 12, 2017 • Sandia researchers make solid ground toward better lithium-ion battery interfacesLIVERMORE, Calif. – Research at Sandia National Laboratories has identified a major obstacle to advancing solid-state lithium-ion battery performance in small electronics: the flow of lithium …
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Forrest Gittleson, left, and Farid El Gabaly investigate the nanoscale chemistry

Wind energy team to compete nationally after winning Sandia Labs’ first pitch competition
November 27, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an effort to help researchers think about their ideas from a business perspective, Sandia National Laboratories collaborated with startup accelerator ABQid in the labs’ first Pitch Competition this fall.A team working to commercialize wind energy f…
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New engine optics to fuel future research
November 3, 2017 • Sandia team develops optical diagnostic that helps improve fuel economy while reducing emissions[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Scott Skeen, left, and Lyle Pickett, center, and former Sandia researcher Julien Manin discu…
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Clean Engine Optics

Reducing power plants’ freshwater consumption with Sandia’s new silica filter
October 18, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation’s freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons daily. To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for...
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Balloons and drones and clouds; oh, my!
August 14, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Last week, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories flew a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system, colloquially known as a drone, together for the first time to get Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than ever before. In addition to providing more precise data for weather...
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Dave Novick examines an octocopter against a background of grey clouds

Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries focus of Sandia Labs study
July 13, 2017 • LIVERMORE, California — Maritime transportation has emerged as one solution to the traffic gridlock that plagues coastal cities. But with urban passenger ferries operating in sensitive environments and tourist areas, hydrogen fuel cell-powered passenger ferries offer a qui…
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Joe Pratt and Myra Blaylock

Clean water that’s ‘just right’ with Sandia sensor solution
July 11, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Water utilities have a Goldilocks problem: If they don’t add enough chlorine, nasty bacteria that cause typhoid and cholera survive the purification process. Too much chlorine produces disinfection byproducts such as chloroform, which increase cancer …
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Curtis Mowry and Mike Siegal with tiny nanoporous carbon coated SAW sensors in front of blue water pipes

Reversing the curse
May 3, 2017 • Sandia develops math techniques to improve computational efficiency in quantum chemistry[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Prashant Rai, left, Habib Najm, center, and Khachik Sargsyan discuss mathematical techniques used t…
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Sandia researchers develop mathematical methods

Power partners: Sandia draws industry into quest for cheaper, cleaner electricity
March 16, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is working with three industry partners to commercialize a distributed power system that can produce cheaper, cleaner, more efficient electricity. The labs signed three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with Peregrine Turbine Technologies of Wiscasset, Maine; Xdot Engineering and Analysis of Charlottesville, Virginia; and...
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Dan Sinars represents Sandia in first energy leadership class
March 13, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dan Sinars, a senior manager in Sandia National Laboratories’ pulsed power center, which built and operates the Z facility, is the sole representative from a nuclear weapons lab in a Department of Energy leadership program that recently visited Sandia. Members of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership...
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Daniel Sinars

Energy work brings Sandia Labs two national technology transfer awards
February 15, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) national 2017 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a heat-exchanger technology that makes power generation more efficient. And Sandia won the FLC’s State and Local Economic Development Recognition award for its work on the New Jersey TRANSITGRID...
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Sandia receives ENERGISE award to study how to help utilities better manage power systems
January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million award to help utility companies better visualize, manage and protect power systems as they include increasing numbers of distributed energy resources (DER) such as wind and solar. The project creates open-source advanced distribution management system (ADMS) algorithms...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement
January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a “home-grown” technology that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The licensing agreement was signed Jan. 23 between mPower Technology Inc. and Sandia for microsystems enabled photovoltaics (MEPV)....
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Sandia Labs, Singapore join forces to develop energy storage
December 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap into the labs’ expertise in energy storage. EMA is the statutory body in Singapore responsible for ensuring a reliable and secure energy supply,...
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Dan Borneo, center in blue shirt, and other researchers from Sandia National Laboratories met with government representatives in the Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore. Sandia will help Singapore’s Energy Market Authority set up the country’s first grid energy storage test-bed through a Comprehensive Research and Development Agreement. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Tritium introduced in fusion experiments at Sandia
November 9, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z Machine have opened a new chapter in their 20-year journey toward higher fusion outputs by introducing tritium, the most neutron-laden isotope of hydrogen, to their targets’ fuel. When Z fires, its huge electromagnetic field crushes pre-warmed fuel, forcing it to fuse....
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Dean Rovang

Turning ubiquitous lignin into high-value chemicals
September 16, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Arul Varman, left, and Seema Singh, who is the principal investigator, are part of a team that mapped the metabolic pathway of a bacteria that lives solely off lignin. The breakthrough, p…
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Water-energy dependence around Pacific Rim mapped in new Sandia study
September 15, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wide-ranging analysis of water vulnerability across the Pacific — including the U.S., China, Russia and Japan — has identified hundreds of locations where energy production depends upon scarce water supplies. The Sandia National Laboratories study, “Mapping Water Consumption for Energy Production Around the Pacific Rim,” was...
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When hurricanes take aim officials can get Sandia’s guidance
September 13, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – When a hurricane approaches landfall, local, state and tribal governments must work together to decide whether and how they should evacuate large populations to save lives. Emergency managers must make quick decisions, often with outdated information an…
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Hurricane work
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