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American Chemical Society honors Sandia Labs scientist

May 8, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Dorina Sava Gallis has been honored by the American Chemical Society with a 2024 Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award, recognizing her excellence in the scientific enterprise demonstrating outstanding promise for contributions to her field. In her 14 years at Sandia, Sava...

Dedication, curiosity earn chemist DOE Early Career Research Award

July 8, 2022 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — After earning a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award, Krupa Ramasesha plans to launch an in-depth study of how interactions of nanoparticles with light drive chemistry — possibly the first step in helping the nation end its dependence on fossil fuels. “The goal of my work...
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New chemical mechanisms identified on road to cleaner, more efficient combustion

March 8, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have identified key chemical mechanisms for the first time that add to the fundamental knowledge of combustion chemistry and might lead to cleaner combustion in engines.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="25…
Researcher Nils Hansen

Cleaning concrete contaminated with chemicals

September 19, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In March 1995, members of a Japanese cult released the deadly nerve agent sarin into the Tokyo subway system, killing a dozen people and injuring a thousand more. This leads to the question: What if a U.S. transportation hub was contaminated with a chemical agent? The hub...
Chemical engineer Craig Tenney analyzes modeling results at the John B. Robert Dam

Optical diagnostics researcher at Sandia wins DOE Early Career award

May 15, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Christopher Kliewer has won a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science for his fundamental science proposal to develop new optical diagn…
Christopher Kliewer

Asian American engineering honorees credit families for success

February 19, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two scientists at Sandia National Laboratories thought back to their roots when they won Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) awards: Somuri Prasad to a village in India and Patrick Feng to a refuge in America. Prasad’s father helped found the first school in his native...

Direct measurement of key molecule will increase accuracy of combustion models

February 5, 2015 • Sandia National Laboratories chemist John Savee, left, identified cycloheptadiene as the best fuel for creating a detectable QOOH, and Sandia computational expert Ewa Papajak, right, and her adviser, Judit Zádor, used quantum c…

Entrepreneur teams with Sandia scientists to bring life-saving vaccines to far reaches of the world

March 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Getting life-saving vaccines to the most remote parts of the world is no easy feat. Biopharmaceuticals are highly sensitive to heat and cold and can perish if their temperature shifts a few degrees. “The vast majority of the world’s population lives in areas where electricity and refrigeration...

Combustion chemist to be awarded Polanyi Medal for pioneering work at Sandia Labs

November 26, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories combustion chemist Craig Taatjes, whose groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates has provided scientific insight into hydrocarbon combustion and atmospheric chemistry, has been selected to receive the prestigious Polanyi …

Fertilizer that fizzles in a homemade bomb could save lives around the world

April 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate a bomb. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in...
Ammonium nitrate

Keeping tabs on the world’s dangerous chemicals

February 15, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In the chemistry labs of the developing world, it’s not uncommon to find containers, forgotten on shelves, with only vague clues to their origins. The label, if there is one, is rubbed away.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia…

National workshop brings career development help to Sandia postdocs, student interns

July 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The American Chemical Society’s ACS on Campus is bringing career development workshops for scientists and engineers to Sandia National Laboratories’ postdoctoral fellows and interns, only the second time the program has come to a national laboratory…

Sandia Labs’ unique approach to materials allows temperature-stable circuits

May 31, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia National Laboratories materials science researcher Steve Dai has come up with a unique approach to creating materials whose properties won't degenerate with temperature swings. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on t…

Sandia Labs technology used in Fukushima cleanup

May 29, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sandia researchers had worked around the clock following the March 2011 disaster to show the technology worked in...

New model of geological strata may aid oil extraction, water recovery and Earth history studies

May 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary rock. By understanding the variety of pore sizes and spatial patterns in strata, geologists can help achieve more production from...

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.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" capti…
MetILs researcher

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...
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