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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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Sandia and Arizona State University sign MOU
August 30, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University have signed a formal partnership agreement on important renewable energy challenges. The goals of the memorandum of understanding are to encourage collaborative research, build educational and workforce development programs and inform policy endeavors. The agreement enables the two institutions to...
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Shape-shifting alloys hold promise
August 27, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine untwisting a finger-size spring, then holding the flame from a lighter underneath the unraveled section. Like magic, it twirls itself into a spring again because the metal alloy remembered its original shape. Sandia National Laboratories researchers think such shape-memory alloys could be used to improve safety...
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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...
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Low-temperature combustion enables cleaner, more efficient engines
August 13, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— As demand climbs for more fuel-efficient vehicles, knowledge compiled over several years about diesel engines and a new strategy known as “low-temperature combustion” (LTC) might soon lead auto manufacturers and consumers to broader use of cleaner diesel engines in the United States. The journal Progress in Energy and...
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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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Power for seaports may be the next job for hydrogen fuel cells
June 27, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Providing auxiliary hydrogen power to docked or anchored ships may soon be added to the list of ways in which hydrogen fuel cells can provide efficient, emissions-free energy. Hydrogen fuel cells are already powering mobile lighting systems, forklifts, emergency backup systems and light-duty trucks, among other applications. Now,...
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Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility event
June 25, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University will host the commissioning of the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility on Tuesday, July 9, at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The event will feature speakers from the U.S. Department of...
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Sandia hosts annual Robot Rodeo
June 17, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories is hosting the seventh annual Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise, a lively and challenging five-day event that draws civilian and military bomb squad teams from across the country to see who can most effectively defuse dangerous situations with the help of robots....
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“Popcorn” particle pathways promise better lithium-ion batteries
June 11, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have confirmed the particle-by-particle mechanism by which lithium ions move in and out of electrodes made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, or LFP), findings that could lead to better performance in lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, medical equipment and aircraft. The research is...
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High-impact Sandia physicist publishes technical, yet personal, memoir
June 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is in a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course of research at particle accelerators around the world. His experiments in the mid-1990s made the Z accelerator a more effective candidate to achieve peacetime fusion...
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Sandia, SRI International sign pact to advance hydrogen and natural gas research for transportation
May 30, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories and SRI International, an independent research and innovation center, will join forces to explore, test and evaluate a broad range of hydrogen and natural gas fuel systems and components for transportation applications under a new agreement. The five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) is the first...
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Key hydrogen report now available on OpenEnergyInfo wiki site
May 28, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— As part of the Open Government initiative launched by the Obama administration, Sandia National Laboratories’ Technical Reference on Hydrogen Compatibility of Materials has made its debut on the Energy Dataset of OpenEnergyInfo, or OpenEI. Many in the industry working to increase the competitiveness of clean hydrogen-powered fuel cell...
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Softening steel problem expands computer model applications
April 16, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Lisa Deibler and Arthur Brown had a ready-made problem for their computer modeling work when they partnered with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant to improve stainless steel tubing that was too hard to meet nuclear weapon requirements. When steel is too hard it...
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Researchers measure reaction rates of second key atmospheric component
April 11, 2013 • Science magazine LIVERMORE, Calif.— Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester, Bristol University, University of Southampton and Hong Kong Polytechnic have successfully measured reaction rates of a second Criegee intermediate, CH3CHOO, and proven that the reactivity of the atmospheric chemical depends strongly on which way...
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New instrument will quickly detect botulinum, ricin, other biothreat agents
April 2, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a medical instrument that will be able to quickly detect a suite of biothreat agents, including anthrax, ricin, botulinum, shiga and SEB toxin.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" captio…
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Alloy developed at Sandia has potential for electronics in wells
March 19, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An alloy that may improve high-temperature electronics in oil and geothermal wells was really a solution in search of a problem. Sandia National Laboratories first investigated the gold-silver-germanium alloy about 15 years ago as a possible bonding material in a new neutron tube product. But a design...
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