nanotechnology

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Quantum research gets a boost at Sandia

October 24, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has awarded Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories $8 million for quantum research — the study of the fundamental physics of all matter — at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. The award will fund two three-year projects enabling scientists at the two labs...

Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, Ion Beam Laboratory, nanotechnology, nuclear magnetic resonance, quantum

A splash of detergent makes catalytic compounds more powerful

May 30, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Researcher David Rosenberg examines images of a white powder under a powerful scanning electron microscope. Up close, the powder looks like coarse gravel, a heap of similar but irregular chunks. Then he looks at a second image — the same material produced by colleague Hongyou Fan instead...

Categories: Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Physics

Topics: Advanced Materials Lab, catalyst, David Rosenberg, detergent, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hongyou Fan, modeling, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, synthesis, University of New Mexico

Clean water that’s ‘just right’ with Sandia sensor solution

July 11, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Water utilities have a Goldilocks problem: If they don’t add enough chlorine, nasty bacteria that cause typhoid and cholera survive the purification process. Too much chlorine produces disinfection byproducts such as chloroform, which increase cancer risks. The amount of chlorine needs to be “just right” for safe...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology

Topics: chloroform, graphene, nanoporous carbon, nanotechnology, public health, SAW detector, surface acoustic wave sensor, trihalomethanes, water, water purification

Curtis Mowry and Mike Siegal with tiny nanoporous carbon coated SAW sensors in front of blue water pipes

Nanotechnology manager elected president of Materials Research Society

November 11, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Senior manager Sean Hearne, who leads the Center of Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT) group for Sandia National Laboratories, has been elected president of the Materials Research Society. MRS is an international organization that promotes interdisciplinary materials research with 15,000 members from academia, industry and national labs. Hearne will...

Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology

Topics: Arizona State University, Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, CINT, Materials Research Society, materials science, nanotechnology, president

Sandia storing information securely in DNA

July 11, 2016 • Sandia researchers explore a biologically inspired information storage system ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider generate 15 million gigabytes of data per year. That is a lot of digital data to inscribe on hard drives or beam up to the “cloud.” George Bachand, a Sandia National Laboratories...

Categories: Biology, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: basic research, Biology, biomimicry, Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, DNA, encryption, fundamental science, information storage, LDRD, nanotechnology

Marlene and George Bachand show off their new method for encrypting and storing sensitive information in DNA

Two Sandia student interns named Goldwater Scholars

June 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories student interns Hattie Schunk and Julian A. Vigil have been named 2016 Goldwater Scholars. The undergraduate scholarship, established by Congress in 1986 to honor former Sen. Barry Goldwater, annually pays tuition, fees, books and room and board for 250 college sophomores and juniors pursuing...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education

Topics: electrocatalysts, Goldwater, nanoparticles, nanotechnology

Hongyou Fan chosen for prestigious lecture on creating nanomaterials

April 2, 2015, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Hongyou Fan has been selected by the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Kavli Foundation to deliver the 2015 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lecture in Nanoscience. Fan is the first lecturer identified with a national laboratory to be so honored. “I am glad that...

Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Kavli, materials, Materials Research Society, nanomaterials, nanotechnology

Diamond plates create nanostructures through pressure, not chemistry

June 27, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You wouldn’t think that mechanical force — the simple kind used to eject unruly patrons from bars, shoe a horse or emboss the raised numerals on credit cards — could process nanoparticles more subtly than the most advanced chemistry. Yet, in a recent paper in Nature Communications,...

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

Topics: embossing, flexible electronics, force, LEDs, nanotechnology, solar cells

Improvements in MRIs, passenger screening, other image-detection applications on the horizon

June 11, 2014 • Sandia, Rice University, Tokyo Institute of Technology developing terahertz detectors with carbon nanotubes LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with collaborators from Rice University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, are developing new terahertz detectors based on carbon nanotubes that could lead to significant improvements in medical...

Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: carbon nanotubes, MRI, nanotechnology, Rice University, terahertz

Get ready for the computers of the future

May 27, 2014 • Sandia National Laboratories launches push to innovate next-generation machines ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like, from next-generation supercomputers to systems that learn on their own — new machines that do more while...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: computer, computing, Moore's law, nanotechnology, supercomputing

2014 Rank Prize for envisioning strained-layer superlattices awarded to Sandia Fellow

April 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In 1982, then-Sandia National Laboratories researcher Gordon Osbourn published a theoretical paper that asserted the previously unthinkable: that ultra-thin layers of mismatched atomic lattices could overcome the strain of their union and successfully form a defect-free bond. Going against the grain of the times, Osbourn’s calculations stimulated...

Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: laser, materials science, military, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, Rank Prize, semiconductors, superlattices

Already “outstanding poster” selected for international exhibit

July 22, 2013 • Sandia researchers score MRS “outstanding” rating two years running ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Hongyou Fan was honored for his “outstanding poster” at the 2013 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in San Francisco. His was one of only 12 posters selected out of 2,147 at...

Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Topics: coatings, films, nanotechnology, optical, reflectors