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Sandia experiments may force revision of astrophysical models of the universe
March 15, 2012 •  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The idea of compressing water is foreign to our daily experience. Nevertheless, an accurate estimate of water’s shrinking volume under the huge gravitational pressures of  large planets is essential to astrophysicists trying to model the evolution of the universe. They need to assume how much space is...
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Experimental smart outlet brings flexibility, resiliency to grid architecture
February 27, 2012 • Sandia National Laboratories has developed an experimental “smart outlet” that autonomously measures, monitors and controls electrical loads with no connection to a centralized computer or system. The goal of the smart outlet and similar innovations is to make the power grid more distributed and intelligent, capable of reconfiguring itself as...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Anthony Lentine with the smart outlet

Asian American Engineer of the Year honors three Sandians
February 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories scientists are among 19 people from across the United States receiving 2012 Asian American Engineer of the Year awards. The AAEOY program and awards ceremony will be held in Albuquerque on March 2-3 at the Marriott Uptown. “It is a great honor to...
Categories: Awards, Conferences / Symposia, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Asian American Engineer

Sandia seeks better neural control of prosthetics for amputees
February 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sandia National Laboratories researchers, using off-the-shelf equipment in a chemistry lab, have been working on ways to improve amputees’ control over prosthetics with direct help from their own nervous systems. Organic materials chemist Shawn Dirk, robotics engineer Steve Buerger and others are creating biocompatible interface scaffolds. The...
Categories: Biology, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers find energy storage “solutions” in MetILs
February 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries. The research, published in Dalton Transactions, might lead to devices that can help economically and reliably incorporate...
Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
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MetILs researcher

Sandia tool determines value of solar photovoltaic power systems
January 31, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Consistent appraisals of homes and businesses outfitted with photovoltaic (PV) installations are a real challenge for the nation’s real estate industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Solar Power Electric™ and licensed by Sandia addresses that issue. Sandia scientists, in partnership with Jamie...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
PV Tool

Sandia’s self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away
January 30, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters. (Click here for a video showing the prototype’s flight.) Sandia...
Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Bullet prototype

Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
January 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Research by a team of Sandia chemists could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste. The Sandia researchers have used metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to capture and remove volatile radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel. “This is one of the first attempts to...
Categories: Chemistry, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing
January 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing — and that’s the idea behind a power-over-fiber (PoF) communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. It’s common to isolate communications between systems or devices by using fiber optic cables, said Steve Sanderson of Sandia’s mobility...
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Power-over-fiber cable

Sandia researchers, UK partners publish groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates in Science magazine
January 13, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In a breakthrough paper (full text/PDF) published in this week’s issue of Science magazine, researchers from Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester and Bristol University report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-phase Criegee intermediate using photoionization mass spectrometry. (Click here to see a short video...
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Criegee intermediates

Sandia’s Annular Core Research Reactor conducts 10,000th operation
October 31, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – With a muffled “pop,” a flash of blue light and a few ripples through 14,000 gallons of deionized water, Sandia National Laboratories’ Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) recently conducted its 10,000th operation. “The ACRR has been a real workhorse for Sandia, and labs leadership and the nation...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
ACRR

Sandia designs mobile facility to measure greenhouse gases
September 8, 2011 •  LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed and built a mobile research facility to trace and identify the origin of greenhouse gases.  In addition to pinpointing the chemicals’ location, the unique mobile facility can help researchers learn whether the gases are biogenic (coming from plant sources) or...
Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
Mobile measurement facility

Big machines: two radiation generators mark major milestones in helping protect the U.S.
September 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two remarkable pulsed-power machines used to test the nation’s defenses against atomic weapons have surpassed milestones at Sandia National Laboratories: 4,000 firings, called ‘shots,’ on the Saturn accelerator and 9,000 shots on the HERMES III accelerator. Saturn — originally projected to last 5 to 10 years — began...
Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
The Rings of Saturn

Tribal Energy Program at Sandia empowers Native American students while powering tribal lands
August 15, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Most Americans take electric power for granted, but for thousands of people living on tribal lands, getting to the grid can be a challenge. A lack of infrastructure, transmission capabilities and policies impede the availability of electricity within the reservations and to outlying tribal areas. A program...
Categories: Community / Education, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Interns with Sandra Begay-Campbell

Sandia hosts 2011 Wind Turbine Reliability Workshop
August 1, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories will hold its biennial Wind Turbine Reliability Workshop, Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 2-3, 8 a.m. -5 p.m. at the Marriott Pyramid North in Albuquerque. Speakers include Steve Chalk, deputy assistant secretary for renewable energy in Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
2011 Wind Turbine Reliability Workshop

Sandia donating historically significant robots to Smithsonian Institution
July 18, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In a nod to Sandia Labs’ contributions to the field of robotics, the Smithsonian Institution has obtained nine of Sandia’s historically significant robots for its permanent collection at the National Museum of American History. “For the Smithsonian to request Sandia technology for their collections is an external...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
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MINIATURE AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VEHICLES

Sandia Labs Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory undergoing $4.2 million stimulus fund renovation
July 12, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia’s world-renowned Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory is undergoing a major renovation so Sandia researchers can test larger batteries for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The nation’s leading facility for battery testing was built in 1991, and has conducted thousands of critical scientific studies to evaluate the...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
Chris Orendorff at the Battery Abuse Testing Lab

Sandia National Laboratories partners with TUV Rheinland PTL, LLC to advance nation’s photovoltaic industry
June 23, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Testing techniques from Sandia National Laboratories are helping accelerate the growth of the nation’s photovoltaic solar power industry through a partnership with TUV Rheinland PTL, LLC, a private testing and certification company in Tucson, Arizona. “The unique, multiplatform test capabilities developed at Sandia Labs are providing a...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
TUV-PTL yard

Sandia wins four R&D 100 Awards
June 22, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest, and were cowinners of a fourth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Dust-size dragonflies and microvalves make mark at annual MEMS student design contest
June 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A dragonfly as small as a dust mote, its four tiny wings beating like it had momentarily alit on a lily pad, and a highly sensitive microvalve were the big winners in this year’s student design contest for extraordinarily tiny devices at Sandia National Laboratories. The winners...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
TTU Novel design

Z researcher Dan Sinars awarded $2.5 million DOE Early Career grant
May 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pursuing a fruitful line of inquiry, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Dan Sinars has been awarded a $2.5 million, five-year  “Early Career Research Program” award for measuring fundamental instabilities in magnetically driven Z-pinch explosions.  Sinars’ team was the first to capture, in a series of 3-D images separated...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
Dan Sinars

Supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton Cycle turbines promise giant leap in thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency
March 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent — an improvement of 50 percent for nuclear power stations equipped with...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Labs’ director re-dedicates Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center
February 18, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In recognition of Sen. Pete Domenici’s decades of advocacy and support for the role the national laboratories play in protecting the nation’s security, officials at Sandia National Laboratories today re-dedicated the still relatively new Weapon Integration Facility building as the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center. With the...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
The Senator in front of the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center

Sandia MOU to assist MEMS students at University of Guadalajara
February 3, 2011 • Tiny microelectronic mechanical systems to improve Mexican economy, aid US defense  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will help Mexican engineering students learn to design tiny microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), according to a memorandum of understanding between Sandia and the University of Guadalajara. The rationale for the agreement is that the...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
10 Mexican professors and three Sandia researchers at a SUMMit design course for MEMS devices held at Sandia in December, 2009. Ernest Garcia is third from right.
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