Sensors, TB modeling, cell preparation, and surgical implant safety may all be improved by a Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico discovery that live cells improve nanostructures when inserted in slurry that, drying, self-assembles into them.
A Sandia National Laboratories research team has taken a Labs-developed energy surety model to a tangible level by applying it to military bases. The team, working with the U.S. Army, is looking at how military bases can improve energy generation and transmission through a new system called the Energy Surety.
Sandia is looking at what energy practices can best answer U.S. current needs while not making compromises for future generations. The information is in a recently-released internal SAND report, Toward an Energy Surety Future.
Sandia researchers and their collaborators have won two R&D 100 awards for the Compute Process Allocator, a computer algorithm technology, and the HTSS10V solid-state fluoride-based battery.
On a table in a small meeting room at Sandia National Laboratories rested a picture of the deceased - a row of identical cabinets that formed part of the entity known as ASCI Red, the world's first teraflop supercomputer. Still one of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers after nine years ASCI Red was being decommissioned.
A preemptive spark lasting for nanoseconds that helps find potentially dangerous intermittent electrical short circuits hidden in the miles of wiring behind the panels of aging commercial airliners has been patented by Sandia National Laboratories.
Nanotechnology simulations show what experiments miss...Taking issue with the perception that computer models lack realism, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Eliot Fang told members of the Materials Research Society that simulations of the nanoscale provide researchers more detailed results - not less - than experiments alone.
Sandia National Laboratories' Building Restoration Operations Optimization Model (BROOM) for managing the collection, visualization, and analysis of environmental sampling data is now available to potential licensing partners.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Pat Brady and Tom Hinkebein are putting the final touches on the updated Desalination and Water Purification Roadmap - "Roadmap 2" - that should result in more fresh water in parts of the world where potable water is scarce. The first roadmap identified overall goals and areas of desalination research and was submitted to Congress in 2003.
Now is the time to address the devastating effects of increasing water scarcity and declining water quality around the world, according to a recently released white paper written jointly by Sandia National Laboratories and the Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed an inexpensive, reliable and easy-to-manufacture class of dielectric films that have the capability of enabling programmable antifuses on integrated circuits (IC) at less cost and using easier-to-manufacture methods.
Experiments are underway at Sandia to optimize the combustion of coal to produce the most energy and the least possible pollution. Researchers say coal may remain competitive with other fuels after figuring in the possible benefits of sequestering carbon dioxide and generating both electricity and hydrogen in coal-fired power plants.
A new series of measurements "” the next step in evolution of criteria to determine more accurately the efficiency of supercomputers "” has rated Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm computer the best in the world in two of six new categories, and very high in two other important categories.
RADTRAN, software developed by Sandia National Laboratories for assessing risks and consequences of transporting radioactive material, turns 30 this year.
Sandia's Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin "” hotter than the interiors of stars. The unexpectedly hot output could eventually mean that smaller, less costly nuclear fusion plants would produce the same amount of energy as larger plants.
Researchers have developed a low-density, energy-absorbing foam that could provide a boost to the nation's surfboard manufacturing market. TufFoam(tm) was originally conceived by Sandia for the National Nuclear Security Administration to protect electronic and mechanical structures from harsh environments. But the foam likely has other applications.
Two Sandia researchers are studying key phenomena that control hydrogen-fueled PEM fuel cells. Before PEM fuel cells can be used to routinely power automobiles and homes, improved durability, as well as techniques for managing the water generated as a byproduct of electricity production in fuel cells, must be achieved.
A team of scientists effectually rode molecules to watch pairs of joined nitric oxide molecules (called NO dimers) split after being excited by an ultrashort laser pulse.
Sandia National Laboratories' Power Sources Technology Group is researching ways to make lithium-ion batteries work longer and safer. The research could lead to these batteries being used in new hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in the next five to ten years.
Sandia's recent work on border security is well on its way to providing an enormously valuable national asset by providing federal agencies with a reliable and comprehensive simulation capability that lets officials "test drive" various security solutions prior to investing in them.
Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a workshop in Salt Lake City Jan. 10-11 designed to help gauge future energy and water concerns of water and electric utilities and others.
After a six-month stint taking cloud and aerosol measurements at Point Reyes National Seashore on the California coast, a mobile suite of climate monitoring equipment was moved to Niamey, Niger, in October for a year's deployment there.
A Sandia National Laboratories robot recently withstood enough radiation to kill 40 men in freeing a stuck radiation source -- the size of a restaurant salt shaker -- at a White Sands Missile Range lab so that the cylinder could be safely returned to its insulated base.
Today, as a contractor to the Sandia National Laboratories Sandia Tribal Energy Program, Debbie Tewa provides technical advice about maintaining photovoltaic units to people on Indian reservations who live remotely like she did as a child in a three-room stone house in an isolated area of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.
After four years of preparation, the BiNational Sustainability Laboratory announced itself ready for business in a 4,000-square-foot facility in Santa Teresa, N.M., a short ride east from El Paso and a few miles from the Mexican border.
Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a workshop designed to help gauge the energy- and water-related concerns of water and electric utilities, environmental organizations, policy and regulatory groups, tribal groups, economic development organizations, government agencies, universities, research institutions, and others.
Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a workshop designed to help gauge future energy and water concerns of water and electric utilities, environmental organizations, policy and regulatory groups, tribal groups, economic development organizations, government agencies, universities, research institutions, and others.
A published report developed by a joint team of researchers from SNL and LBNL is being distributed to airport executives and emergency planners and is expected to aid security managers of airports and other transportation facilities in reducing the risk of chemical and biological attacks.
Sandia, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, and Sierra Monolithics demonstrated the Athena Radar-Responsive Tag during a recent military exercise in the U.K. Aircraft on bombing runs used their radar systems to spot unique signals from Athena tags carried on vehicles belonging to friendly forces.
Following up on their well-received first book, Sandia researchers Fred Dickey and Scott Holswade have edited (with David Shealy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham) a compact new volume, Laser Beam Shaping Applications.
A research team from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories has discovered that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement. The research shows that more deadly spores remain after decontamination than previously believed.
A pilot treatment system developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories that tests technologies to remove arsenic from water, supplied by a number of vendors, will be demonstrated at a Rio Rancho well site on Oct. 10 at 1:30 p.m.
Two technologies developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories are expected to soon be checking for toxins and harmful bacteria in the nation's water supplies. Both are based on the microChemLab.
This week, a team of more than 25 international cloud climate scientists are conducting a three-day operations and planning simulation to prepare for a complex experiment that will result in the most detailed data sets ever collected for tropical convection.
For the last two years, tests have been conducted at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility to see how materials used for NASA's future planetary exploration missions can withstand severe radiant heating.
Researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories, together with fellow members of the Joint Water Reuse & Desalination Task Force, in coming months will be studying the best ways to desalinize - and make potable - ocean water, subsurface brines, and wastewater.
In a study, scientists found evidence that dust from an asteroid burning up as it descended through Earth's atmosphere formed a cloud of micron-sized particles significant enough to influence local weather in Antarctica.
Over the next several months a team of researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories will be studying different methods of arsenic removal at the Desert Sands Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association in Anthony in southern New Mexico.
Sandia National Laboratories has completed a two-year study of the potential health effects associated with accidental exposure to depleted uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf War.
For the remarkable achievements of the multi-filament Z-pinch development in the recent years," Sandia researcher Tom Sanford shares the European Physical Society's Hannes Alfven Prize with Malcolm Haines and Valentin Smirnov.
A multi-organizational team is adapting for DOE use a technology that can help keep security adversaries out of DOE sites that contain nuclear assets. The DOE Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance is exploring the potential to use directed energy weapons technology to help protect DOE nuclear assets.
Sandia National Laboratories in cooperation with Time Domain Corporation and KoolSpan Inc. has developed a secure wireless Ultra Wideband data communication network that can be used to help sensors monitor U.S. Air Force bases and DOE nuclear facilities and wirelessly control remotely operated weapon systems.
Researchers flew what is probably the world's smallest fine-resolution synthetic aperture radar in May, making real-time images from the 6-kilometer range with a resolution of four inches, a first for the 25-pound instrument that may soon be used for reconnaissance on near-model-airplane-sized unmanned aerial vehicles.
A project to improve the false alarm rate and to standardize the certification of fire detection systems in cargo compartments of commercial aircraft is underway. Sandia's role in the project was to develop a physics-based Computational Fluid Dynamics model to analyze smoke transport in cargo compartments.
A unique class of materials developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., may prove useful in textile manufacturing, biomedical diagnostics, and other applications requiring the modification of surface properties of liquids or solids.
Sandia National Labs has accelerated a small plate from zero to 76,000 mph in less than a second. The speed of the thrust was a new record for Sandia's Z Machine -- sometimes referred to as the fastest gun in the West.
The National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories recently provided three engineering concepts to small business owner Dale Petty for a gadget that keeps car tires inflated to the right pressure.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a software-based tool called BROOM -- short for Building Restoration Operations Optimization Model -- to assist in the gathering of samples following a release of a biological warfare agents in a public facility.
Sandia National Laboratories recently conducted a series of tests to help NASA understand the fatigue on the space shuttle caused during rollout from the Kennedy Space Center assembly building to the launch pad -- a four-mile trip.
The Sandia Corporation Board of Directors has named Dr. Thomas O. Hunter President of Sandia Corporation and Director of Sandia National Laboratories, effective April 29. Hunter most recently has served as Sandia's senior vice president for Defense Programs, with oversight of the labs nuclear weapons programs.
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