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Labs Director to make historic visit to Navajo Nation

March 10, 2023, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On March 17, Sandia National Laboratories Director Dr. James Peery will make an historic visit to Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, New Mexico, marking the first time a sitting national lab director has visited a tribal college or university. The event is designed to build on the...

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: advanced manufacturing, chemical engineering, diversity, diversity and inclusion, electrical engineering, energy, internship opportunities, mechanical engineering

New superalloy could cut carbon emissions from power plants

February 16, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As the world looks for ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have shown that a new 3D-printed superalloy could help power plants generate more electricity while producing less carbon. Sandia scientists, collaborating with researchers at Ames National Laboratory, Iowa State University and...

Categories: Materials Science

Topics: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, advanced materials, climate change, energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, LDRD, materials science, power plants

New testing method yields pathway to better, longer-lasting batteries

December 2, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Using a microscopic method for measuring electrical potential, a team of scientists at Sandia National Laboratories may have discovered how to make a longer-lasting, more efficient battery. The team of Elliot Fuller, Josh Sugar and Alec Talin detailed their findings in an article published Oct. 19 in...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Batteries, energy, lithium-ion, Sandia, solid-state batteries

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

Record neutron numbers at Sandia Labs’ Z machine fusion experiments

October 27, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— A relatively new method to control nuclear fusion that combines a massive jolt of electricity with strong magnetic fields and a powerful laser beam has achieved its own record output of neutrons — a key standard by which fusion efforts are judged — at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: ;high yield, break-even, energy, fusion, laser, magLIF, magnetic, plasma, Z

Sandia, Puerto Rican university collaborate to develop energy projects for global tropics

March 6, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new 10-year agreement between Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, has the potential to bring more reliable electricity to remote communities and the latest in electrical grid technology to rural areas in the worl…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: CRADA, energy, Sandia National Laboratories, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez

Sandia Labs names new leader for California site

September 4, 2019 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Andrew McIlroy has been named the new associate labs director for Sandia National Laboratories' California site. (Photo by Lonnie Anderson) Click the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.[/caption]LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia N…

Categories: HR / Personnel

Topics: Andrew McIlroy, energy, Homeland security, Sandia California, Sandia National Laboratories

Longtime Sandia leader named second-in-charge of national security lab

June 5, 2019 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Integrated Security Solutions Associate Labs Director Dori Ellis named deputy laboratories director effective June 28 after leading Sandia National Laboratories' California site. (Photo by Randy Wong) Click on the thumbnail for …

Categories: HR / Personnel

Topics: diversity, energy, Homeland security, Livermore, women in STEM

Exascale Earth-modeling system is ready to make high-fidelity predictions for energy

April 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Earth modeling system developed over the last four years and unveiled Monday is expected to have one of the finest resolutions ever achieved by supercomputers simulating aspects of the planet’s climate, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Taylor, the project’s chief computational scientist. The Energy Exascale...

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

Topics: cryosphere, Earth models, energy, exascale

Reducing power plants’ freshwater consumption with Sandia’s new silica filter

October 18, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation’s freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons daily. To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for...

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

Topics: cooling, cost, energy, filter, freshwater, hydrotalcite, material, method, power, process, recycle, silica, water

Power partners: Sandia draws industry into quest for cheaper, cleaner electricity

March 16, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is working with three industry partners to commercialize a distributed power system that can produce cheaper, cleaner, more efficient electricity. The labs signed three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with Peregrine Turbine Technologies of Wiscasset, Maine; Xdot Engineering and Analysis of Charlottesville, Virginia; and...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: brayton cycle, business, collaboration, distributed power, economic development, electricity, energy, partnerships, power cycle, tech transfer

Energy work brings Sandia Labs two national technology transfer awards

February 15, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) national 2017 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a heat-exchanger technology that makes power generation more efficient. And Sandia won the FLC’s State and Local Economic Development Recognition award for its work on the New Jersey TRANSITGRID...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, energy, flc, national labs, partnerships, tech transfer

Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement

January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a “home-grown” technology that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The licensing agreement was signed Jan. 23 between mPower Technology Inc. and Sandia for microsystems enabled photovoltaics (MEPV)....

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, energy, licensing, national labs, renewable energy, solar, solar glitter, tech transfer

Wave energy researchers dive deep to advance clean energy source

October 13, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One of the biggest untapped clean energy sources on the planet — wave energy — could one day power millions of homes across the U.S. But more than a century after the first tests of the power of ocean waves, it is still one of the hardest energy sources...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: clean energy, energy, water, water power, wave, wave energy, wave power, WEC

Exascale Computing Project awards $39.8 million for application development

September 9, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Improved computer climate models of the Earth’s clouds and more accurate simulations of the combustion engine are goals for two projects led by Sandia National Laboratories that were funded in the first round of activities from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP). Sandia also will...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: climate, collaboration, computing, energy, exascale, high performance computing, national labs, NSCI, partnerships

The Exascale Computing Project ... Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Blowing bubbles to catch carbon dioxide

September 1, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have created a powerful new way to capture carbon dioxide from coal- and gas-fired electricity plants with a bubble-like membrane that harnesses the power of nature to reduce CO2 emissions efficiently. CO2 is a primary greenhouse gas,...

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science

Topics: bio-inspired, biomimicry, carbon capture, carbon dioxide, clean coal, collaboration, energy, flc, greenhouse gas, liquid membrane, membrane, R&D 100, R&D100, University of New Mexico

Lessons from Fukushima

August 16, 2016 • Sandia helps industry learn from Japanese reactor accident ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. –When you’re an operator or engineer at a nuclear power plant, there are things you want to know long before you’re faced with an emergency. Reactor safety experts from Sandia National Laboratories and elsewhere are sharing lessons learned in Japan’s...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: energy, Fukushima, national labs, nuclear accident, nuclear power

DOE funding moves two Sandia energy programs closer to the marketplace

June 27, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories are among 54 energy projects that will receive nearly $16 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help bring them to market. The projects involve 12 national labs and 52 private-sector partners. Funding comes through the Technology Commercialization...

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

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, economic development, energy, national labs, tech transfer

Sandia Labs tapped again to lead national solar evaluation centers

May 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won a three-year renewal of a Department of Energy contract to manage the U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs), a network of five sites across the country where industry can assess the performance, reliability and economic viability of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The program currently...

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, energy, partnerships, PV, renewable energy, RTCs, solar, solar electricity, tech transfer

Nothing but water: Hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide renewable power to Honolulu port

August 28, 2015 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] "We are pleased to help expand this clean energy technology to new applications," said Young Brothers, Ltd., President Glenn Hong. Young Brothers is hosting a project led by Sandia National Laboratories to test a hydrogen-fuel-c…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Transportation

Topics: clean energy, energy, Hawaii, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, maritime, renewable energy, Sandia National Laboratories

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…

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: awards, chemistry, Christopher Kliewer, combustion chemistry, Combustion Research Facility, Early Career Research Program, energy, interfacial combustion interactions, Office of Science, optical diagnostic tools, soot formation

Twistact and Optimization of Building Efficiency projects chosen for DOE’s LabCorps

April 1, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Twistact and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Optimization of Building Efficiency projects were selected today as the Livermore Valley Site’s participants in the Energy Department’s LabCorps pilot program. “This program underscores the value of the partnership between Sandia Livermore, Lawrence Livermore and i-GATE to...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, clean energy, commercialization, energy, entrepreneurship, LabCorps, technology transfer, twistact

Geophysicist Marianne Walck named vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory

March 12, 2015 • New role includes leadership of Energy and Climate programLIVERMORE, Calif.—Sandia National Laboratories has appointed Marianne Walck vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory. She replaces Steve Rottler, who will become the deputy director and executive vice pres…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, HR / Personnel

Topics: climate change, energy, NISAC, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, renewable energy, women in STEM

Sandia releases interface to help standardize supercomputer power and energy systems

November 11, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To help moderate the energy needs of increasingly power-hungry supercomputers, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have released an application programming interface (API) with the goal of standardizing measurement and control of power- and energy-relevant features for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The High Performance Computing — Power API...

Categories: Computing, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: API, energy, HPC, power, supercomputers

Combining ‘Tinkertoy’ materials with solar cells for increased photovoltaic efficiency

November 3, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have received a $1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to develop a technique that they believe will significantly improve the efficiencies of photovoltaic materials and h…

Categories: Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: electricity, energy, metal-organic framework, MOF, renewable energy, solar, sunshot

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Vitalie Stavila inserts a substrate patterned with electrodes into a temperature-controlled liquid-phase reactor for depositing MOF thin films. Sandia's research team plans to combine MOFs with dye-sensitized solar cells, a technique it believes will lead to advancements in photovoltaic technology. (Photo by Dino Vournas)

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