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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…

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...

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 screen…
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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...

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)...
Jill Hruby

Ice sheet modeling of Greenland, Antarctica helps predict sea-level rise

February 11, 2016 • Sandia Labs research part of five-year multi-partner project titled Predicting Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution at Extreme Scales (PISCEES) LIVERMORE, Calif. — The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will make a dominant contribution to 21st century sea-level rise if current…
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Sandia Labs takes home three national tech transfer awards

February 4, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2016 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a decontamination product that neutralizes chemical and biological agents and for software that helps emergency responders disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Business development specialist Bianca Thayer was named Outstanding Technology...

Nondestructive testing: Sandia looks inside composites

February 1, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researcher David Moore holds a rectangle of hard carbon composite material, smooth with a faint woven pattern on its surface. The sample shows normal wear and tear until he turns it over to reveal a circular impact mark with cracks radiating from it.The…
Sandia National Laboratories technologist Andrew Lentfer passes a roller probe over a composite as researcher David Moore checks data on a screen. The nondestructive testing technique sends sound waves into the composite material, returning data with each swipe of the roller probe.

Enormous blades could lead to more offshore energy in U.S.

January 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new design for gigantic blades longer than two football fields could help bring offshore 50-megawatt (MW) wind turbines to the United States and the world. Sandia National Laboratories’ research on the extreme-scale Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR) is funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced...
Todd Griffith

Unique phononic filter could revolutionize signal processing systems

January 12, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A unique filtering technology that combines light and sound waves on a single chip is expected to better detect radar and communications frequencies. “We have developed a powerful signal filtering technology that could revolutionize signal processing systems that rely solely on conventional electronics,” said Patrick Chu, manager...
Charles Reinke

Thor’s hammer to crush materials at 1 million atmospheres

January 5, 2016 • Sophisticated features may influence eventual Z-machine rebuildALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest and most powerful pulsed-power accelerat…

Supercomputer benchmark gains adherents

December 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A software program that ranks supercomputers on their ability to solve complex problems rather than on raw speed alone continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community. More than 60 supercomputers were ranked by the emerging tool, termed the High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark, in...
Michael Heroux

Sandia researcher elected physics fellow after ‘remarkable impact’ in pulsed power

November 18, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Daniel Sinars has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) through its Division of Plasma Physics. The distinction is awarded to no more than one half of one percent of the society’s membership. Sinars’ citation reads, “For scientific contributions and...
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DOE aims to boost economy through national lab tech transfer

October 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is intensifying efforts to move technology developed at the national laboratories into the private sector to boost the economy and create jobs, says the acting director of the department’s new Office of Technology Transitions. “Tech transfer is a mission of the...

An ‘apatite’ for radionuclides

October 20, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories geochemist Mark Rigali and his colleagues are developing and deploying apatite-based technologies to protect groundwater at sites contaminated by radionuclides and heavy metals. Apatite is currently being used at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State and the Fukushima Dai-ichi...

Sandia researchers win ‘best paper’ award from AIAA

October 1, 2015 • Paper focuses on scramjet engines used for supersonic flightLIVERMORE, Calif. — The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has recognized Sandia National Laboratories researchers Joe Oefelein and Guilhem Lacaze with a best paper award for their work on s…
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New Mexico small businesses prosper with technical help

September 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ski bums need fuel to schuss down mountains day in and day out. Their go-to snack is an energy bar, a backpack staple. “We need something that is quick, healthy, sustaining and cheap,” said Kyle Hawari of Taos, New Mexico. But taste matters too. “We humans crave...

Techniques could create better material, design in high-consequence uses

September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a table with sinuous legs resembling the twisting shape of an inverted swamp cypress trunk. Those flowing legs might make the table stronger, better able to handle whatever someone piles on it.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Topol…

Sandia Labs HENAAC honorees find common threads in diversity

September 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Thousands of miles separate the hometowns of Patrick Sena and Abraham Ellis. Sena grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Ellis in Chitre, Panama, but they shared upbringings centered on family, community and culture. “What does it mean to be Hispanic?” said Ellis, manager of Photovoltaic...
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