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Old ways making way for new

September 24, 2024 • “They say water is life, and that couldn’t be truer,” said Anne Francis, who has spent her life on the Navajo Nation. A new technology is transforming that struggle into a sustainable solution.

Categories: Awards, Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Media advisories, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: livestock, Navajo Reservation, NMSBA, water

Cheers to five more years

April 14, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An initiative that helps businesses transform New Mexico national laboratories’ technologies into viable products and services will continue driving innovations to market into 2027. Passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Michelle …

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

Topics: commercialization, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, intellectual property, licensing, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, tech transfer, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit, technology transfer, TRGR

CRADAs, licenses lead to billions in economic impact since 2000

April 15, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Cooperative Research and Development Agreements and patent license agreements between Sandia National Laboratories and outside partners led to billions in economic impact and supported tens of thousands of high-paying jobs every year for the last two decades, according to a recent study on national economic contributions. CRADAs...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, economic impact, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, tech transfer, techlink report, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit, technology transfer, TRGR

Materials developed at Sandia help extinguish solar panel fires before they ignite

November 19, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As solar panels become popular and their voltages increase, there is a need to have built-in capabilities to extinguish fires caused by arc-faults, which are high-power discharges of electricity that can create explosions or flash events due to damaged …

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

Topics: arc-fault generator, arc-fault prevention, arc-faults, Guardian Sensors, in-line connectors, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, LDRD, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA

Sandia secures six regional technology transfer awards

November 18, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For responding with innovative solutions during the pandemic, developing solar cell and hydrogen research technology, and creatively working with companies, Sandia National Laboratories won six prestigious regional 2020 Federal Laboratory Consortium awa…

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

Topics: BayoTech, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRADA, DragonSCALES, ducted fuel injection, Federal Laboratory Consortium, flc, FLC Awards, intellectual property, IP, licensing, mPower, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, Rapid Technology Deployment Program

Helping protect medical professionals

August 5, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A media comprised of a sandwich of materials, tested by Sandia National Laboratories, is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local medical facilities. The project originated from the urgent need for personal protective equipment when the COVID-19 outbreak began. “I can almost assure...

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

Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, masks, n95, n95-like, n95-like respirators, New Mexico Small Business Assistance, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, personal protective equipment, PPE, respirators

Company moves metals characterization technology forward with help from Sandia Labs

May 20, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When a small business needed help proving that its invention, a tabletop laser system, could characterize metals faster and more easily than current equipment, they turned to Sandia National Laboratories’ expertise in metals characterization. Sandia’s testing verified that Albuquerque-based Advanced Optical Technologies’ patented Crystallographic Polarization-Classification Imaging, or...

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

Topics: Advanced Optical Technologies, AOT, CPCI, metals characterization, New Mexico Small Business Assistance, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, rystallographic Polarization-Classification Imaging, titanium characterization

Sandia tests distillery’s hand sanitizer developed to address severe shortage

May 7, 2020, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Distillery-developed hand sanitizer is leaving a New Mexico warehouse as quickly as it disappeared from grocery stores after Sandia National Laboratories helped confirm the product meets all federal requirements for distribution. In response to the severe, widespread shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wayward Sons Craft-Distillery in Santa...

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

Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, New Mexico Small Business Assistance, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, technical assistance

From innovation to industry

March 16, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A recently signed New Mexico law enables Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories to assist in turning transferred technology into viable products and services, which could boost innovation and create jobs, according to Sandia business development experts. The Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit is a three-year...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, economic development, New Mexico Small Business Assistance, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, tech transfer, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit, technology transfer, TRGR

Small business recycling ventures propelled by Sandia engineering

September 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Along Route 66 in rural, eastern New Mexico is a defunct ethanol plant in Tucumcari. Still hanging inside the building, calendars from 2010 mark the year it closed, and six massive fermentation tanks — each one 35 feet tall and 55,000 gallons — sit empty. Drought has...

Categories: Materials Science, Renewable energy

Topics: composite materials, fluid dynamics, New Mexico Small Business Assistance, NMSBA, renewable energy, structural mechanics

Magnetic nanoparticles leap from lab bench to breast cancer clinical trials

April 30, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories materials chemist Dale Huber has been working on the challenge of making iron-based nanoparticles the exact same size for 15 years. Now, he and his long-term collaborators at Imagion Biosystems will use these magnetic nanoparticles for their first breast cancer clinical trial later this...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Nanotechnology

Topics: breast cancer, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, clinical trials, magnetic nanoparticles, nanoparticles, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA

Dale Huber, in a blue labcoat holds a small white microfluidic chip beside a large, basket-ball sized round-bottom flask.

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

Topics: ARPA-E, nanoparticles, NMSBA, thermochromic, window films, windows

Materials physicist Paul Clem holds a sample of nanoparticle coated glass in front of an office building.

New Mexico firm uses motion of the ocean to bring fresh water to coastal communities

July 5, 2017 • Sandia Labs provides a fourth year of technical help ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hurricane Katrina whipped up huge, powerful waves that caused severe destruction in 2005 along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Their size and strength convinced Phil Kithil of Santa Fe, New Mexico, there had to be a way to harness...

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

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, desalination, economic development, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer, wave power

Lab know-how: Small companies grow with a technical leg up from Sandia, Los Alamos labs

June 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine driving a car with no fuel gauge and no idea how big the gas tank is. You want to go as far as possible before filling up but not so far that you sputter to a halt. “That’s what it’s like to operate an electric plane...

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

Topics: business, collaboration, economic impact, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Suicide bomb detector moves forward with Sandia engineer’s help

February 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On the chilling list of terrorist tactics, suicide bombing is at the top. Between 1981 and 2015, an estimated 5,000 such attacks occurred in more than 40 countries, killing about 50,000 people. The global rate grew from three a year in the 1980s to one a month...

Categories: Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bomb detector, business, collaboration, economic development, Homeland security, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, suicide bombing, suicide vest, tech transfer

New Mexico small businesses prosper with technical help

September 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ski bums need fuel to schuss down mountains day in and day out. Their go-to snack is an energy bar, a backpack staple. “We need something that is quick, healthy, sustaining and cheap,” said Kyle Hawari of Taos, New Mexico. But taste matters too. “We humans crave...

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

Topics: collaboration, economic development, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Sandia helps small security company thwart thieves

May 19, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At a motorcycle shop on a busy city street, crooks devised an elaborate scheme to steal from the storage yard. They jumped the fence and unpacked some newly arrived bikes from crates. They used the crates to build a ramp and run the motorcycles over and out....

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

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, security, small business, tech transfer

Tech transfer awards salute innovation, commercialization at Sandia Labs

August 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC is a nationwide network of more than 300 members that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, DOE, economic development, economic impact, flc, H2FIRST, Mantevo, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, renewable, research, technology, technology transfer

Scientists help entrepreneurs make business dreams come true

May 12, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bill Watts knows a thing or two about data-center computers. One is that they’re dangerous to move. “A server cabinet is 8 feet tall with 3,500 pounds of equipment,” he said. “If it starts to tip over, there’s no way you can stop it.” Watts, an Intel...

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

Topics: assistance, awards, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, engineers, entrepreneurs, innovation, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

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...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Scientists team with entrepreneurs to make business happen

May 2, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hurricane Katrina whipped up huge, powerful waves that caused severe destruction in 2005 along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. The size and strength of the waves convinced Phil Kithil of Santa Fe there had to be a way to harness that energy. His invention of a...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, NMSBA, partnerships, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

Disabled kids inspire musical instrument anyone can play

February 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Not everyone can play music. You need timing and rhythm, an ear for pitch and notes and an ability to interpret sheet music and symbols. You need physical coordination to apply those talents plus control of lungs, lips, arms and fingers to match the mec…

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

Topics: business, collaboration, computing, economic development, education, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology