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Boosting battery research

June 12, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Most Americans don’t leave home without at least one lithium battery-powered device, and someday, the house itself may have a battery back-up. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working to make these large back-up batteries less expensive, hold more energy and be less prone to bursting into...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: battery, battery research, grid-scale energy storage, tech transfer

Sandia National Laboratories battery expert Melissa Meyerson works in a glovebox to setup a lithium-sulfur flow battery. These kinds of batteries have huge potential for being large, safe and in-expensive back-ups for a high-renewables grid.

Two Sandians honored with 2024 Women in Tech Award

April 8, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories employees have been honored with the 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Award from the New Mexico Technology Council. The award recognizes remarkable women who drive innovation and excellence in their tech field and inspire and empower others to pursue careers in the...

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

Topics: award, diversity, diversity and inclusion, nm tech council, Sandia, tech transfer, women in tech

Sandia pumps $140B into the economy through technology development

April 2, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To say that the technology and products Sandia National Laboratories researchers have helped imagine, innovate and industrialize have had a massive impact on the country would be an understatement. Two studies commissioned by Sandia and the National Nuclear Security Administration show Sandia’s work has had an overall...

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

Topics: economic impact, national labs, Sandia, tech transfer

Sandia awarded for outstanding work in technology transfer

February 8, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One of Sandia National Laboratories’ core missions is to help the world through innovation. However, transferring some of that innovation from the Labs to industry isn’t always an easy process. Through hard work and ingenuity, some Sandia employees are excelling at moving technology to market, a feat...

Categories: Awards, Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Coronavirus, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: covid, disinfectant, flc, FLC Award, long lasting, tech transfer, TRGR

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

Including everyone at the table

April 12, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In less than three years at Sandia National Laboratories, competitive intelligence specialist Kelli Howie has made waves throughout the federal laboratory complex by creating programs to boost diversity in technology transfer activities.Howie’s target…

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: diversity and inclusion, Federal Laboratory Consortium, FLC Award, tech transfer, technology transfer

Neutralizing antibodies for emerging viruses

December 14, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a platform for discovering, designing and engineering novel antibody countermeasures for emerging viruses. This new process of screening for nanobodies that “neutralize” or disable the virus r…

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: antibodies, antiviral therapeutics, bioscience, COVID-19, medical countermeasures, nanobodies, R&D, tech transfer

Sandia-developed solar cell technology reaches space

September 29, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Somewhere among the glitter of the night sky is a small satellite powered by innovative, next-generation solar cell technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Former Sandia National Laboratories s…

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

Topics: DragonSCALES, Entrepreneurial Separation of Transfer Technology program, ESTT, MEMS, MEPV, MESA, mPower, satellite, satellites, solar cells, solar glitter, solar power, tech transfer, technology transfer

Legendary licenses

April 28, 2021 • Licensing expert Bob Westervelt, who has worked to transfer Sandia National Laboratories technologies in the medical, solar and hydrogen production fields, received the 2021 Outstanding Technology Transfer Professional Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.The consort…

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Bob Westervelt, Federal Laboratory Consortium, flc, FLC Award, intellectual property, licensing, tech transfer, technology transfer

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

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 ex…

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

NM company secures funds, land for medical-isotope producing reactor using Sandia concept

November 21, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico company secured funding this year and located 240 acres of land in the southeastern corner of the state to build a small reactor that will exclusively produce medical isotopes. The concept was developed and licensed by Sandia National Laboratories to help establish a stable...

Categories: Awards, Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Eden Radioisotopes, Federal Laboratory Consortium, FLC Awards, medical isotopes, moly-99, molybdenum-99, tech transfer, technetium-99m, technology transfer

Business partnerships, technology transfer efforts earn Sandia 4 regional awards

September 12, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies.The annual FLC awards program recognizes federal laboratories and their industry partners for outstanding t…

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, Federal Laboratory Consortium, FLC Awards, glass scintillators, Goodyear, organic glass, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, scintillator, tech transfer, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Business development specialist Jason Martinez developed and implemented a strategy that strengthened Sandia National Laboratories’ CRADA portfolio.

First 3-D printed wind-blade mold, energy-saving nanoparticles earn Sandia national awards

April 25, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer’s national 2018 Technology Focus Award for designing the first wind turbine blades fabricated from a 3-D printed mold, which could dramatically shorten the time and expense of developing new wind energy technology. The labs also...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Renewable energy

Topics: 3D printing, energy efficiency, tech transfer, wind energy, wind turbine

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

More small, clean-energy businesses will tap into Sandia technical expertise

April 25, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has chosen five more small, clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to speed the commercialization of next-generation technologies and gain a global competitive advantage for the U.S. “Sandia is excited to bring these small businesses together with our scientists and engineers...

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

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, small business, small business vouchers, tech transfer

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

Sandia Labs, Singapore join forces to develop energy storage

December 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap into the labs’ expertise in energy storage. EMA is the statutory body in Singapore responsible for ensuring a reliable and secure energy supply,...

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

Topics: business, collaboration, CRADA, economic impact, energy storage, national labs, partnerships, tech transfer

Dan Borneo, center in blue shirt, and other researchers from Sandia National Laboratories met with government representatives in the Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore. Sandia will help Singapore’s Energy Market Authority set up the country’s first grid energy storage test-bed through a Comprehensive Research and Development Agreement. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Sandia Science & Technology Park gives local economy a major boost

December 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) has generated $2.6 billion worth of economic activity and produced more than $103 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $15.2 million for the City of Albuquerque since it was established in 1998. That’s the conclusion of...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic impact, partnerships, tech park, tech transfer

Katie Wieck is a student at the Technology Leadership High School, one of the 40-plus businesses and organizations in the Sandia Science & Technology Park. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Small businesses can apply for Sandia clean-energy help

October 10, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the third round of its Small Business Vouchers Pilot, which lets companies in the clean-energy sector apply for technical help from Sandia National Laboratories and other DOE labs. Johanna Wolfson, Technology-to-Market director in the office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable...

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

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

Tech transfer awards recognize Sandia’s work in eye tracking, hydrogen refueling, heat exchange efficiency

September 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won three regional 2016 awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Mid-Continent/Far West regions recognized Sandia’s achievements in the following innovations: GazeAppraise: Eye Movement Analysis Software, which won a Notable Technology Development Award;...

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

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

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mike Haass demonstrates how an eye tracker under a computer monitor is calibrated to capture his eye movements on the screen. Haass and others are working with EyeTracking Inc. to figure out how to capture within tens of milliseconds the content beneath the point on the screen where the viewer is looking. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image

X-ray vision: Bomb techs strengthen their hand with Sandia’s XTK software

September 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the chaos that followed the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon, bomb squads scanned packages at the scene for explosive devices. Two homemade pressure cooker bombs had killed three people and injured more than 250, and techs quickly had to determine if more were waiting...

Categories: Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bomb squads, defense, Homeland security, national labs, tech transfer, X-ray, XTK

More small businesses get Sandia help in clean-energy voucher pilot

August 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of five more small, clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to bring next-generation technologies to market faster. “These are innovative companies working to build the clean-energy economy,” said Mary Monson, Sandia’s senior manager of industrial partnerships....

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

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, partnerships, renewable energy, small business, tech transfer

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