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Beating the heat with nanoparticle films
August 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It is a truth acknowledged throughout much of the world, that a car sitting in the sun on a summer’s day must be sweltering. However, a partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and Santa Fe, New Mexico-based IR Dynamics may soon challenge that truth. Together they are turning...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Materials physicist Paul Clem holds a sample of nanoparticle coated glass in front of an office building.

Super plants need super ROOTS
February 28, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Agriculture consumes about 80 percent of all U.S. water. Making fertilizers uses 1 to 2 percent of all the world’s energy each year.[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories' Ronen Polsky, left, Ron Manginell, center, …
Categories: Biology
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Ronen Polsky, Ron Manginell, and Philip Miller hold tiny sensors surrounded by a warehouse of plants.

Sandia’s Z machine receives funding aimed at fusion energy
June 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A two-year, $3.8 million award has been received by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) to hasten the day of low-cost, high-yield fusion reactions for energy purposes. High-yield means much more energy emerging from a fusion reaction than is put...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Physics, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Amplified light passes through the large tubes of Sandia National Laboratories’ Z-Beamlet laser, one of the most powerful in the world.