October 22, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Sandia’s efforts to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regional awards recognized Sandia’s technology transfer work with crystalline silico-titanates (CSTs), biomimetic membranes, the i-Gate Innovation Hub and DAKOTA software. “It...
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Sandia solar researcher chosen as one of continent’s ten most brilliant scientists
September 24, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researcher Greg Nielson is “one of the 10 most promising young scientists working today,” says Popular Science magazine. Nielson garnered one of the magazine’s “Brilliant 10” awards for helping lead the Sandia effort to create solar cells the size of glitter. Past Brilliant 10 honorees have...
Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept
September 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Magnetically imploded tubes called liners, intended to help produce controlled nuclear fusion at scientific “break-even” energies or better within the next few years, have functioned successfully in preliminary tests, according to a Sandia research paper accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters (PRL). To exceed scientific break-even is...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
Topics: beryllium, deuterium, energy, magnetic fields, nuclear fusion, simulations, tritium, Z accelerator, z machine
Solar nanowire array may increase percentage of sun’s frequencies available for energy conversion
June 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers creating electricity through photovoltaics want to convert as many of the sun’s wavelengths as possible to achieve maximum efficiency. Otherwise, they’re eating only a small part of a shot duck: wasting time and money by using only a tiny bit of the sun’s incoming energies. For...
Sandia paper on flat-panel displays is one of Applied Physics Letters’ 50 greatest hits
May 7, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM — A paper by Sandia National Laboratories researchers with implications for early flat panel televisions is one of the 50 most cited papers from the prestigious journal Applied Physics Letters in the last 50 years, according to a listing made public by that journal. The 1996 paper shows...
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
Nanomaterials, nanomedicine lab dedicated at UNM, with help from Sandia
September 9, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It wasn’t exactly the grand opening of a research megacenter, but the dedication Aug. 23 of the third floor of the University of New Mexico’s Centennial Engineering Center for a lab combining nanotechnology and nanomedicine offered a start-up charm of its own. Maybe Los Alamos National Laboratory...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget
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
National Cancer Institute Awards nearly $4M to UNM Cancer Center to support cancer nanotechnology partnership with Sandia Labs
November 9, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The National Cancer Institute recently announced two five-year awards totaling nearly $4 million for a partnership between the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories. One $1.95 million grant will fund the creation of a joint Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnership, and another $1.8 million...
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
Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, Sandia simulations show
October 11, 2010 • Sandia researcher Matt Lane stands before computer simulations of 2-nm. gold particles too small to measure experimentally. The particles aggregate to produce cigar-shaped objects that prefer to sit at the water’s surface. Red represents oxygen, blue carbon, white hydrogen, yellow the sulfur coating. The gold particles are not modeled directly....
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
Kinked nanopores slow DNA passage for easier sequencing
July 30, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an innovation critical to improved DNA sequencing, a markedly slower transmission of DNA through nanopores has been achieved by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researchers. Solid-state nanopores sculpted from silicon dioxide are generally straight, tiny tunnels more than a thousand times smaller than the...
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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...
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
Texas Tech, U of Utah win Sandia microdevice competition
June 15, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The world’s smallest chess board — about the diameter of four human hairs — and a pea-sized microbarbershop were winners in this year’s design contest for, respectively, novel and educational microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), held at Sandia National Laboratories in mid May. The two winning teams will see...
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...
Julia Phillips to speak on solid-state lighting’s contributions to national energy efficiency at AAAS Annual Meeting
February 18, 2010 • SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Solid-state lighting and its potential as a near-term generator of energy efficiencies will be the topic of a presentation by Julia Phillips, director of the Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories, at the 2010 AAAS annual meeting. The meeting runs Feb. 18-22...
Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results
December 21, 2009 • Adventures in microsolar supported by microelectronics and MEMS techniques ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The tiny cells could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger if they were fastened...
Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir
October 27, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces. Researchers currently use all types of processes to try and create mixing, with only “mixed” success. “In small devices,” says Sandia materials scientist Jim Martin “people have tried all kinds...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow
April 30, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations, study how those molecules respond to light, observe how the molecules change shapes, and...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
Jumbo ‘nanotube’ existence confirmed at Sandia/LANL nanotech center
December 8, 2008 • A giant lightweight carbon nanotube with good strength and electrical properties is desirable, all right. A micron-sized carbon tube is easier to exploit commercially than any (so to speak) littler nanocousin.
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia researchers discover way to see how a drug attaches to a cell
November 13, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers John Shelnutt and Yujiang Song have discovered a better way to see where a drug attaches to a cell through a new process that produces novel hollow platinum nanostructures.
Categories: Nanotechnology
Tiny porphyrin tubes developed by Sandia may lead to new nanodevices
March 17, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sunlight splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen using devices too small to be seen in a standard microscope. That’s a goal of a research team from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories. The research has captured...
Categories: Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology research funding list now live at Sandia/LANL CINT website
September 30, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nanotech researchers can shorten their search for funding by visiting the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) Internet site (www.sandia.gov/cint or www.lanl.gov/cint). There, a searchable database of federal government nanotechnology funding...
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