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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

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:
Carley Ashley and Jeff Brinker

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

Registration open for Sandia-sponsored 4th International Conference on Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources
November 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Registration is open for the 4th International Conference on the Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources, the premier event for technical discussion of electric integration of new energy resources. Jointly sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada, Public Service Company...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Water’s interaction with platinum demands closer examination, Sandia researchers find
October 13, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Basic assumptions about water’s adsorption to platinum do not hold true, Sandia researchers have found. “The way that water molecules prefer to arrange themselves on platinum has always been largely a matter of speculation,” Sandia researcher Peter Feibelman said. Accurate knowledge is important because the first layer of water...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Tom Friedmann awarded NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal
July 12, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Tom Friedmann was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal (EEAM) at a ceremony June 15 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. He received the award for the quality of the diamond-like carbon thin films he contributed to the Genesis science...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget

Sandia Labs reports first successful integration of a terahertz quantum-cascade laser and diode mixer into a monolithic solid-state transceiver
June 29, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have taken the first steps toward reducing the size and enhancing the functionality of devices in the terahertz (THz) frequency spectrum. By combining a detector and laser on the same chip to make a compact receiver, the researchers rendered unnecessary the precision alignment...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Sandia paper on steric confinement of proteins published in PNAS journal
April 14, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A paper authored by Sandia National Laboratories researchers Jeanne Stachowiak, Carl Hayden and Darryl Sasaki is featured in the April 13 edition of PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, “Steric confinement of proteins on lipid membranes can drive curvature and tubulation,” presents...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

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.
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