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Registration open for Sandia-sponsored 4th International Conference on Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources
November 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Registration is open for the 4th International Conference on the Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources, the premier event for technical discussion of electric integration of new energy resources. Jointly sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada, Public Service Company...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, Sandia simulations show
October 11, 2010 • Sandia researcher Matt Lane stands before computer simulations of 2-nm. gold particles too small to measure experimentally. The particles aggregate to produce cigar-shaped objects that prefer to sit at the water’s surface. Red represents oxygen, blue  carbon, white hydrogen, yellow the sulfur coating. The gold particles are  not modeled directly....
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia National Laboratories helping to safeguard world’s dangerous biological agents
September 2, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Safeguarding the world’s most dangerous biological agents has been a top priority for a dedicated group of Sandia scientists for more than a decade, and now, this team is training laboratory leaders from around the world to secure deadly agents such as anthrax and HIV from accidental...
Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia National Laboratories and SunPower Corp. extend solar energy research partnership
July 28, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and SunPower Corp. recently formalized an agreement to conduct research on integrating large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems into the grid. By signing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), the organizations will leverage approximately $1 million of combined U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and SunPower...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia to play major role in DOE-funded simulation of “virtual” nuclear reactor
June 14, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories computational scientists will lead two of five technical areas in a U.S. Department of Energy effort to create a “virtual” nuclear reactor, to be headquartered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This state-of-the-art simulator will use advanced capabilities of the world’s most powerful computers...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Breaking the logjam: improving data download from outer space
May 18, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Satellite systems in space keyed to detect nuclear events and environmental gasses currently face a kind of data logjam because their increasingly powerful sensors produce more information than their available bandwidth can easily transmit. Experiments conducted by Sandia National Laboratories at the International Space Station preliminarily indicate...
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Biofuel combustion chemistry more complex than petroleum-based fuels, say Sandia and Lawrence Livermore researchers
May 12, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels. And that’s exactly what researchers at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are doing. The journal Angewandte Chemie devotes its May 10 cover to a paper co-authored by Sandia’s...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
Aspects of biofuel combustion chemistry cover

Sandia’s Bob Carling to speak at upcoming conference on future auto engines
May 11, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Bob Carling, director of Sandia National Laboratories’ Transportation Energy Center in California, will give a plenary presentation on May 31 at 10 a.m. local time during the 11thInternational Conference on Present and Future Engines for Automobiles. The conference is scheduled to run May 30-June 3 in Shanghai,...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Bob Carling

Sandia National Laboratories leads reliability workshop for growing field of photovoltaic systems integration
May 11, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is using its expertise and long history in photovoltaic (PV) research and development to accelerate the adoption of reliability tools within the growing industry of PV power generation. Sandia’s PV team and the Department of Energy recently hosted a workshop specifically for PV systems...
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Jennifer Granata and Michael Quintana examine a photovoltaic solar panel at Sandia National Laboratories.

City of Pittsburgh honors Sandia for solar work
May 5, 2010 • Albuquerque, N.M. — The city of Pittsburgh has honored solar researchers from Sandia National Laboratories for training city staff to install and maintain solar thermal and photovoltaic panels on city facilities. The formal proclamation, signed by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, recognizes the Sandia researchers “who braved sleet, snow, ice, and frigid...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Powering tribal lands: Sandia researcher to discuss off-grid, green technologies for rural areas at law seminar
April 30, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandra Begay-Campbell, leader of Sandia’s Tribal Renewable Energy Program and member of the Navajo Nation, will present “The Potential for Tribal Energy Resource Development in the Southwest” at the Tribal Energy in the Southwest Conference May 3-4 at Sandia Resort and Casino. Many tribes in the Southwest...
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Sandra Begay-Campbell stands in front of Window Rock with a solar panel.

MTI satellite continues to serve after 10 years in orbit
April 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For engineers and scientists at Sandia, the evening of Friday, March 12, marked a proud moment in exceptional service to the nation. Hundreds of miles above the Earth, the Multispectral Thermal Imager satellite reached its 10th anniversary of service as it completed its 55,000th orbit — far...
Categories: Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy
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Brian Post stands under an antenna at the ground station at Sandia National Labs during the MTI satellite’s 55,000th orbit (photo by Randy Montoya).

Sandia paper on steric confinement of proteins published in PNAS journal
April 14, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A paper authored by Sandia National Laboratories researchers Jeanne Stachowiak, Carl Hayden and Darryl Sasaki is featured in the April 13 edition of PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, “Steric confinement of proteins on lipid membranes can drive curvature and tubulation,” presents...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program helps 320 small businesses in 2009
April 5, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA) helped 320 companies in 25 counties in 2009 to solve technical challenges, including creating high-speed video of an exploding frozen pipe and explaining how silver-coated bandages speed healing. A partnership of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia researchers awarded 73 million supercomputing simulation hours by DOE INCITE program
February 23, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three computationally based projects proposed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been awarded 73 million of 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours offered by the Department of Energy’s INCITE program to advance cutting-edge work. Another Sandia researcher is participating in a Los Alamos National Laboratory-led proposal that was...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Understanding the secrets of water on a surface
February 22, 2010 • In Physics Today cover story, Peter Feibelman traces progression of an idea ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It may seem a harmless question to ask how molecules of water arrange themselves to cover a surface, but the answer has big consequences. For instance, the drag experienced by water flowing past a surface...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Peter J. Feibelman

Julia Phillips to speak on solid-state lighting’s contributions to national energy efficiency at AAAS Annual Meeting
February 18, 2010 • SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Solid-state lighting and its potential as a near-term generator of energy efficiencies will be the topic of a presentation by Julia Phillips, director of the Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories, at the 2010 AAAS annual meeting. The meeting runs Feb. 18-22...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
Julia Phillips

Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results
December 21, 2009 • Adventures in microsolar supported by microelectronics and MEMS techniques ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The tiny cells could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger if they were fastened...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
Representative thin crystalline-silicon photovoltaic cells – these are from 14 to 20 microns thick and 0.25 to 1 millimeter across.

Sandia adds water power to clean energy research portfolio
December 18, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories will receive more than $9 million over three years from a Department of Energy competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of advanced water power technologies. Sandia, through a partnership with several national laboratories and academic institutions, will lead two of the four topic areas...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia’s Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory awarded $4.2 million in stimulus funds
December 16, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will use $4.2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to modify and enhance its existing Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab), with the goal of developing low-cost batteries for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Sandia’s BATLab is internationally recognized as a leader...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
Peter Roth, Sandia battery lab
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