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This device could usher in GPS-free navigation

October 26, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Don’t let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It’s what’s on the inside of this small, curious device that could someday kick off a new era of navigation. For over a year, the avocado-sized vacuum chamber has contained a cloud of atoms at...

Categories: Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: GPS, navigation, quantum sensing

‘I’m melting, melting’ — environmentally hazardous coal waste diminished by citric acid

October 25, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In one of nature’s unexpected bounties, a harmless food-grade solvent has been used to extract highly sought rare-earth metals from coal ash, reducing the amount of ash without damaging the environment and at the same time increasing an important national resource. Coal ash is the unwanted but...

Categories: Chemistry, Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: citric acid, coal ash, computer chips, mining, rare earth, smart phones, supercritical carbon dioxide

1 day. 3 rockets. 23 experiments.

October 22, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One year to design, build and test three rockets. Six weeks to unpack, assemble and test them at the flight range. One day to launch them. Sandia National Laboratories launched three sounding rockets in succession for the Department of Defense on Wednesday. The triple launch was conducted...

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Conventional Prompt Strike, Department of Defense, hypersonics, Long-Range Hypersonic Weapons, sounding rockets

National 2021 Diversity Team Award goes to Sandia National Labs

September 30, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories recently was recognized for its contributions to its organization and communities as a 2021 Diversity Team Award winner by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Fifteen companies and 16 diversity teams are being celebrated this summer for their teamwork to advance the cause of diversity and...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education, HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, diversity, diversity and inclusion, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Labs

Sandia-developed solar cell technology reaches space

September 29, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Somewhere among the glitter of the night sky is a small satellite powered by innovative, next-generation solar cell technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. mPower Technology’s DragonSCALES, consist of small, highly interconnected photovoltaic cells formerly known as solar glitter at Sandia. They are orbiting Earth for the...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: DragonSCALES, Entrepreneurial Separation of Transfer Technology program, ESTT, MEMS, MEPV, MESA, mPower, satellite, satellites, solar cells, solar glitter, solar power, tech transfer, technology transfer

Kauai Test Facility launches its largest missile

September 28, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The largest missile ever to launch from Sandia National Laboratories’ Kauai Test Facility in Hawaii has shown the storied test range is still growing to meet the testing needs of advanced weapons systems. Sandia used the four years leading up the launch to ensure the test facility...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: advanced weapons systems, Kauai Test Facility, missile defense, Missile Defense Agency

Sandia 3D-imaging workflow has benefits for medicine, electric cars and nuclear deterrence

September 14, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have created a method of processing 3D images for computer simulations that could have beneficial implications for several industries, including health care, manufacturing and electric vehicles. At Sandia, the method could prove vital in certifying the credibility of high-performance computer simulations used in...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3D, 3D modeling, academic alliance, computer simulations, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, segmentation

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Major upgrade to HOT Shot rocket program culminates in successful launch

September 13, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories announced that a major upgrade to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s HOT Shot sounding rocket program culminated in a successful launch on Saturday at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. HOT Shot, short for High Operational Tempo Shot, collects scientific data that benefits...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: additive manufacturing, aerospace, NASA, sounding rocket

Redesigning radiation monitors at U.S. ports

September 9, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Every day at ports of entry, hundreds of thousands of vehicles and containers cross into the country. Since 9/11, all incoming vehicles and containers at land crossings, rail crossings, mail facilities and shipping terminals are scanned by Customs and Border Protection officers to detect potential threats, including...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Homeland security, national security, radiation portal monitor, RPM, threat detection

Sandia National Laboratories physicist Will Johnson demonstrates the potential capabilities of the new radiation portal monitor design.

Look who’s turning 25

September 2, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is celebrating 25 years of research conducted at its Z Pulsed Power Facility — a gymnasium-sized accelerator commonly referred to as Z or the Z machine. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, only a limited number of former leaders of the pulsed power program at Sandia...

Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: ions, magnetic, X-ray, Z

Pathways to production

August 30, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Biologists at Sandia National Laboratories developed comprehensive software that will help scientists in a variety of industries create engineered chemicals more quickly and easily. Sandia is now looking to license the software for commercial use, researchers said. Sandia’s stand-alone software RetSynth uses a novel algorithm to sort...

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bioengineering, biomanufacturing, biotechnology, software licensing, synbio, synthetic biology, technology transfer

A graphical illustration of the kind of retrosynthetic analysis conducted by RetSynth software.

With redesigned ‘brains,’ W88 nuclear warhead reaches milestone

August 16, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and its nuclear security enterprise partners recently completed the first production unit of a weapon assembly responsible for key operations of the W88 nuclear warhead. “The arming, fuzing and firing assembly is the brains of the warhead,” said Dolores Sanchez, senior manager of the...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: AF&F, arming and fuzing and firing, computer simulations, nuclear deterrence, nuclear warhead, w88, W88 Alt 370

Sandia joins 16 national labs on transgender-inclusive, name-change process for papers

July 28, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories joins 16 other Department of Energy national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals and other organizations in scientific publishing in announcing the beginning of a partnership to support name-change requests from researchers on past published papers. This agreement will allow researchers who wish to...

Categories: Community / Education, HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: diversity, diversity and inclusion, published papers, research papers, science publishing, scientific papers

Sandia designs better batteries for grid-scale energy storage

July 21, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed a new class of molten sodium batteries for grid-scale energy storage. The new battery design was shared in a paper published today in the scientific journal Cell Reports Physical Science. Molten sodium batteries have been used for many years to...

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Batteries, battery performance, energy storage, grid energy storage, grid-scale energy storage, molten sodium batteries

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New weapons testing capability produces richer data, saves time, cost

July 20, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A team of Sandia National Laboratories engineers developed a new testing capability in support of its nuclear weapons mission. The team completed their first combined-environments test on a full-scale weapons system at the Sandia Superfuge/Centrifuge complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In a successful test, weapons engineers simulated...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: centrifuge, combined-environments testing, nuclear weapons, systems engineering, weapons systems

An experimental test system is mounted on the centrifuge arm prior to combined environments testing at the Sandia National Laboratories Superfuge/Centrifuge Complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The hidden culprit killing lithium-metal batteries from the inside

July 14, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For decades, scientists have tried to make reliable lithium-metal batteries. These high-performance storage cells hold 50% more energy than their prolific, lithium-ion cousins, but higher failure rates and safety problems like fires and explosions have crippled commercialization efforts. Researchers have hypothesized why the devices fail, but direct...

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, imaging, lithium metal battery, scanning electron microscopy

Setting gold and platinum standards where few have gone before

June 24, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Like two superheroes finally joining forces, Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine — generator of the world’s most powerful electrical pulses — and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility — the planet’s most energetic laser source — in a series of 10 experiments have detailed the responses...

Categories: Chemistry, Materials Science, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: gigapascals, gold, NIF, platinum, pulsed power, terapascal, z machine

Cleared for takeoff

June 15, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 30-year program that made flying safer through continued innovations in airplane inspection, maintenance and airworthiness research has ended its tenure at Sandia National Laboratories. The Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Assurance Center, or AANC, operated by Sandia for the FAA, is moving to the National Institute of...

Categories: History, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: accident investigation, aircraft, airplane, airworthiness, aviation, corrosion monitoring, nondestructive inspection, structural health monitoring, structural repair

Using a mineral ‘sponge’ to catch uranium

June 9, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A team of researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley and Pacific Northwest national laboratories tested a “sponge-like” mineral that can “soak up” uranium at a former uranium mill near Rifle, Colorado. The researchers found that the mineral, calcium apatite, soaks up and binds uranium from the groundwater, reducing...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: apatite barrier, apatite remediation, Office of Legacy Management, uranium remediation

Graphic of underground stream with uranium being absorbed by apatite with detection wells upstream and downstream.

World’s smallest, best acoustic amplifier emerges from 50-year-old hypothesis

June 2, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have built the world’s smallest and best acoustic amplifier. And they did it using a concept that was all but abandoned for almost 50 years. According to a paper published May 13 in Nature Communications, the device is more than 10 times...

Categories: Nanotechnology, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: acoustic, acoustoelectric, heterogeneous integration, MESA, radiofrequency, signal processing

Largest aerospace society names Sandia researcher ‘Engineer of the Year’

June 1, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Humberto “Tito” Silva III, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been named Engineer of the Year by the world’s largest aerospace technical society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Selected by a committee of his peers, Silva was cited for improving failure-rate predictions of aerospace flight...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: aerospace, AIAA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, computer simulation, engineer of the year, failure rate

Experimental Impact Mechanics Lab at Sandia bars none

May 25, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s a tiny hidden gem at Sandia National Laboratories that tests the strength and evaluates the impact properties of any solid natural or manmade material on the planet. From its humble beginnings as a small storage room, mechanical engineer Bo Song has built a singular Experimental Impact...

Categories: Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Drop-Hopkinson bar, global security, Hopkinson bar, impact mechanics, Kolsky bar, materials performance, materials science, materials testing, mechanical shock testing, national security, test facility

After 40 years, Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility still driving toward the future

May 18, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The weather on March 6, 1981, was nothing too remarkable for the San Francisco Bay Area — a little drizzle with temperatures in the 50s and fairly calm wind. The remarkable event that day was taking place on Sandia National Laboratories’ California campus, but even those who...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Chemical Kinetics, combustion, Combustion Research Facility, CRF, ducted fuel injection, energy, Ion imaging, Rapid Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides

Simulating sneezes and coughs to show how COVID-19 spreads

May 11, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two groups of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have published papers on the droplets of liquid sprayed by coughs or sneezes and how far they can travel under different conditions. Both teams used Sandia’s decades of experience with advanced computer simulations studying how liquids and gases move...

Categories: Computing, Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: computer modeling and simulation, COVID-19, fluid dynamics, modeling, stockpile stewardship

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Reusable respirator could ease COVID-19 medical mask shortages

April 1, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Many medical professionals and other essential, front-line workers have struggled for the past year with persistent shortages of N95 masks. Soon, they might get relief from a Sandia National Laboratories invention — a comfortable, reusable, sterilizable respirator that could ease demand during current or future health crises....

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Coronavirus, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: aerosol science, COVID-19, mask, n95, pandemic, respirator

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