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Black Engineer of the Year honoree inspires youth to excel in STEM
January 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s more to receiving a Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) award than being a winner, says Aaron Brundage of Sandia National Laboratories.“The intent of the award is to provide guidance to young people to pursue careers in science, technology, en…
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Sandia conducts first impact test in years of B61 nonnuclear components
January 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A ground-penetrating bomb, minus its nuclear components, rammed through a target at the remote Coyote Canyon test range last month in Sandia National Laboratories’ first such rocket-driven impact test in seven years. Engineers said the Sandia componen…
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Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect
January 9, 2014 • Control of widely recognized distortion may allow greater output at Sandia’s Z machine ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A surprising effect created by a 19th century device called a Helmholtz pair offers clues about how to achieve controlled nuclear fusion at Sandia National Laboratories’ powerful Z machine. A Helmholz coil produces a...
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Sandia to demonstrate robotics capabilities at 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Expo
December 18, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Engineers from Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate real-world robotics successes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013 Expo this week in Florida. The challenge is focused on human-scaled robots that assist in humanitarian aid and disaste…
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Sandia Labs' Gemini Scout Robot

Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in ‘Tinkertoy’ materials to appear in Science
December 9, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a novel way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework (MOF) materials, a development that could have profound implications for the future of electronics, sensors, energy conversion…
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Combustion chemist to be awarded Polanyi Medal for pioneering work at Sandia Labs
November 26, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories combustion chemist Craig Taatjes, whose groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates has provided scientific insight into hydrocarbon combustion and atmospheric chemistry, has been selected to receive the prestigious Polanyi …
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American Indian group names Sandia engineer 2014 Professional of the Year
November 19, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Randy McKee’s passion is engineering excellence. “I’m a process guy,” says the Cherokee Nation member. “I always put that first in anything I do.” Close behind is his desire to help young people become professional engineers. McKee has spent countless hours mentoring in minority recruitment, graduate and...
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Sandia’s Katherine Guzman receives national Hispanic award for technical contributions
October 31, 2013 • [caption id="attachment_8051" align="alignright" width="239"] Sandia's Katherine Guzman, who was recently named a HENAAC 2013 Luminary honoree. (Photo by Dino Vournas) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.[/caption]LIVERMORE, Calif.— The Hispanic Engineer Na…
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Katherine Guzman

Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source
October 30, 2013 • A device like a photonic crystal, but smaller and tunable ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gems are known for the beauty of the light that passes through them. But it is the fixed atomic arrangements of these crystals that determine which light frequencies are permitted passage. Now a Sandia-led team has created...
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Greg Dyer Plasmonic Chip

Electricity storage how-to guide available
September 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has released an updated handbook on energy storage, an internationally known resource for utilities, regulators and others interested in electricity storage and power generation. The book was created in collaboration with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association...
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Sandia Labs harnessing the sun’s energy with tiny particles
September 16, 2013, Media Advisory • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="313"] Joshua Mark Christian working with the falling particle receiver, which more efficiently converts the sun’s energy to electricity in large-scale, concentrating solar power plants. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnai…
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Falling particle receiver

Researching new detectors for chemical, biological threats
September 5, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists are thinking small, building on decades of sensor work to invent tiny detectors that can sniff out everything from explosives and biotoxins to smuggled humans.Their potential seems unlimited. The military needs to…
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Sandia showcase shines a light on research and tech transfer
September 4, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will again take its cutting-edge research and technology to the community at a daylong event that will also spotlight intellectual property and how to do business with the labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs. The second annual Sandia Research &...
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3D Earth model developed at Sandia Labs more accurately pinpoints source of earthquakes, explosions
August 22, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – During the Cold War, U.S. and international monitoring agencies could spot nuclear tests and focused on measuring their sizes. Today, they’re looking around the globe to pinpoint much smaller explosives tests. Under the sponsorship of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D, Sandia...
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Radiation detection to go
August 14, 2013 • Mobile radiation detectors deployed at international ports ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team completed acceptance testing on an enormous mobile scanner that makes smuggling radiological materials more difficult, the eighth such unit that Sandia has deployed worldwide. The Mobile Radiation Detection and Identification System (MRDIS) enables scanning of...
Categories: Homeland security, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
MRDIS in Oman

Motivating business to design a more resilient nation, one building at a time
July 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Anyone who’s ever come home from vacation to find a home partly destroyed by a leaking roof, broken water line or backed-up sewage knows the horror of drywall replacement, rotted rugs, mold tests and other measures of reconstruction that force domestic life to a halt. The crisis...
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Sandia wins three R&D 100 awards
July 8, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...
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