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Understanding hazardous combustion byproducts reduces factors impacting climate change
August 25, 2016 • Sandia researchers focus on soot, furans, oxygenated hydrocarbons LIVERMORE, Calif. – Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility are developing the understanding necessary to build cleaner combustion technologies that will in turn reduce climate impact. Their work focuses on understanding the oxidation chemistry of organic carbon species critical to...
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rid El Gabaly

Lessons from Fukushima
August 16, 2016 • Sandia helps industry learn from Japanese reactor accident ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. –When you’re an operator or engineer at a nuclear power plant, there are things you want to know long before you’re faced with an emergency. Reactor safety experts from Sandia National Laboratories and elsewhere are sharing lessons learned in Japan’s...
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Researchers at Sandia, Northeastern develop method to study critical HIV protein
August 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – More than 36 million people worldwide, including 1.2 million in the U.S., are living with an HIV infection. Today’s anti-retroviral cocktails block how HIV replicates, matures and gets into uninfected cells, but they can’t eradicate the virus. Mike Kent, a researcher in Sandia National Laboratories’ Biological and...
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Mike Kent with specially designed Languir trough.

Sandia researcher wins high-voltage award
August 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Awards arrive at different levels of intensity, but no one can deny that Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Savage has won the highest voltage prize of all — the IEEE William G. Dunbar Award — for work achieved at extremely high voltage. Asked why he was selected...
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Mark Savage

Sandia physicist Jim Bailey wins major physics award for 10-year study of the sun
July 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By testing bits of iron at the temperature of the sun, Sandia National Laboratories physicist Jim Bailey and his team have provided key data to improve the Standard Solar Model, widely used by astrophysicists to help model the behavior of stars. For this work, Bailey will receive...
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Sandia celebrates 30 years of STEM program for local students
July 27, 2016, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Since 1986, Sandia National Laboratories has helped more than 3,000 middle and high school students get involved in fun, hands-on science and engineering activities and explore a variety of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. That 30-year milestone will be celebrated July 29 with former students,...
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A student works on an HMTech project. HMTech began in 1986 as an after-school program at Albuquerque's Career Enrichment Center.

Joining forces: Military students get a taste of national lab research
July 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Two years ago, West Point cadet Willahelm Wan signed on to spend a few summer weeks at Sandia National Laboratories in a real-world research environment. What he learned changed his career. “At Sandia, everything is connected,” he said. “Projects have multiple components and overlap between departments. I...
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Sandia storing information securely in DNA
July 11, 2016 • Sandia researchers explore a biologically inspired information storage system ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider generate 15 million gigabytes of data per year. That is a lot of digital data to inscribe on hard drives or beam up to the “cloud.” George Bachand, a Sandia National Laboratories...
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Marlene and George Bachand show off their new method for encrypting and storing sensitive information in DNA

New Mexico African American Affairs office honors two from Sandia
July 7, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories employees have been named recipients of 2016 Outstanding Service Awards from the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs (OAAA). Research engineer Conrad James and Theresa A. Carson, a senior manager in Sandia’s Supply Chain Management Center, were recognized for their strong commitment...
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Theresa Carson

DOE funding moves two Sandia energy programs closer to the marketplace
June 27, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories are among 54 energy projects that will receive nearly $16 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help bring them to market. The projects involve 12 national labs and 52 private-sector partners. Funding comes through the Technology Commercialization...
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Microwave imaging expert at Sandia Labs honored as SPIE fellow for radar work
June 21, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Armin Doerry has been named a SPIE fellow for his technical achievements in imaging microwave radar technology development, design and analysis. Doerry is one of 32 new fellows honored this year by SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics established in 1955...
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Armin Doerry

Lab know-how: Small companies grow with a technical leg up from Sandia, Los Alamos labs
June 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine driving a car with no fuel gauge and no idea how big the gas tank is. You want to go as far as possible before filling up but not so far that you sputter to a halt. “That’s what it’s like to operate an electric plane...
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Sandia explores aggressive high-efficiency sparkplug-free gasoline auto engines
June 13, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility are helping to develop sparkplug-free engines that will help meet ambitious automotive fuel economy targets of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. They are working on low-temperature gasoline combustion (LTGC) operating strategies for affordable, high-efficiency engines that will meet...
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Isaac Ekoto

World’s fastest multiframe digital X-ray camera created at Sandia
June 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An adversary who steps inside a boxer’s sense of rhythm may land a punch the boxer never saw coming. A similar problem faces physicists struggling to achieve laboratory-scale nuclear fusion: A rogue event occurring between successively monitored images may knock an otherwise promising experiment off-kilter without anyone...
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Ultrafast camera

Thin film work is poster child for getting research and development to industry
May 19, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Paul Vianco sees his work on thin films as a poster child for the way research and development based on nuclear weapons work can boost U.S. industry. Since the 1970s, laboratories researchers have taken studies originally performed to support the weapons program and...
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Lessons from cow eyes: The long-term impacts of studying cornea biomechanics
May 17, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Nature has had millennia to optimize biomaterials for useful properties, from lightweight strength to walking on smooth, vertical surfaces. Mother-of-pearl, spider silk, cholla wood “skeletons” and gecko feet are all good examples of nature’s brilliant materials engineering. The study of gecko feet spurred research into dry nano-adhesives,...
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Brad Boyce with load frame

Sandia plasma-materials researcher wins DOE Early Career Award
May 10, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Robert Kolasinski has received a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science to support his work on how intense fusion plasmas interact with the interior surfaces of fusion reactors. Kolsinski’s research will develop...
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Robert Kolasinski

Sandia dial-a-fire test complex ignites huge blaze
April 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Though researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories Thermal Test Complex study a variety of fires, they focus on those that rotate rather than burn in place. Whirls generate much higher heat fluxes than non-rotational fires.Massive flames billow from…
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CRADA boom sets records, forges ties at Sandia Labs
April 21, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories entered into a vast array of new Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) in the past three years, bringing dozens of new partners to the labs. “This is a great mechanism for getting national laboratory technology into the private sector,” said Sandia CRADA specialist...
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Sandia, UCLA develop screening libraries to discover drug targets for viral infections
April 4, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — As headlines highlight the threat of viruses like Ebola and Zika, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have teamed up to discover and uncover the viral mechanisms of infection by creating screening libraries based on CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short...
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Award-winning Sandia engineer traded sewing for a shot at science
March 31, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pierrette Gorman built a successful career as a seamstress and tailor, working her way from bridal and clothing stores to owning a business in upstate New York. But she wanted more. “I wanted a college education and had a goal,” Gorman said. She wanted to be an...
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Chinese nuclear security center opens with help from Sandia Labs
March 24, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Principal Deputy Administrator Madelyn Creedon, Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director Jill Hruby and other experts and international guests joined with leaders of China on March 18 to commission the Chinese Center of Excellence (COE)...
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Jill Hruby

New ways of looking at glass-to-metal seals
March 1, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Components housed in stainless steel for protection against extreme environments seen in the aerospace and defense industries require paths for electricity to power them and communicate with them. Those paths in turn need a reliable insulation seal to prevent contact with the metal case that could short...
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