Russian scientists from SPEKTR, a fledgling Russian company, will meet at Sandia National Laboratories the afternoon of April 26 with the founder and president of the leading African-American-owned investment banking firm, M.R. Beal, to learn how to finance the manufacture of an innovative wheelchair seat intended to prevent development of potentially deadly pressure sores.
A Sandia team has been working with Houston-based Haddington Ventures and its subsidiary Norton Energy Storage LLC to determine the feasibility of using a 2,200-foot-deep inactive mine near Norton, Ohio, as the storage vessel for a compressed air energy storage power plant.
Intelligent nanostructures that report on their environment by changing color from blue to fluorescent red under mechanical, chemical, or thermal stress have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.
A new technique developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories using an inexpensive disposable fiber optics telemetry system to relay real-time information about the drilling process is capturing oil and gas industry attention.
Sandia National Laboratories and the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company Ardesta have joined forces through a new partnership agreement to transfer Labs-developed microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microsystems technologies to start-up companies in the commercial sector.
The latest version of the widely used shock wave physics computer code, CTH, developed by Sandia National Laboratories, will soon be available to customers nationwide. The code simulates high-speed impact and penetration phenomena involving a variety of materials.
A magnetic field that accelerates pellets faster than anything except a nuclear explosion has been developed experimentally at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. (Impact Engineering)
Researchers studying ways to capture radioactive chemicals swimming in a sea of hazardous waste have created a new class of molecular cages that, like lobster traps, let certain species in while keeping others out.
What may be the world's smallest robot -- it "turns on a dime and parks on a nickel" -- is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.
More powerful than an ordinary locomotive and expected to climb steep mountains without losing traction, Seraphim -- a simpler, less expensive US alternative to the magnetically levitated (maglev) trains of Europe and Japan -- is now funded for development at Sandia.
A hopping machine inspired by the clumsy jumping of grasshoppers may soon give robots unprecedented mobility for exploring other planets, gathering war-fighting intelligence, and assisting police during standoffs or surveillance operations.
A tiny bar that in appearance resembles cheesecloth has bent infrared beams with very little loss of light in laboratory experiments at the Sandia National Laboratories. The achievement opens the possibility of dramatically less-pumped lasers and optical computer chips. (Nature, 10-26-00)
You won't find it in tanning salons, but the first ultraviolet solid-state microcavity laser has been demonstrated in prototype by scientists at Sandia and Brown U. Coated with phosphors, it will generate the white light most prized for indoor lighting. (Electronics Letters, 10-12-00)
"Smart" legs ó entire smart lower limbs ó to replace those amputated from tens of thousands of Americans yearly as a result of auto accidents, diabetes, or other causes are expected to be on the market in two years. The limb, digitally controlled, will mimic a real leg.
A simple beam of light adjusts the sizes of trillions of nanoscopic pores in fine filters, sensors, or diffraction gratings to make them work better, offering hope separating oxygen from nitrogen (Science, 10-6-00).
In a "bold and important move," Sandia National Laboratories has spun off a private company, MEMX, Inc., to commercialize Labs-developed microsystems technology.
A research team from Sandia National Laboratories, General Atomics and the University of California at San Diego has discovered a way to keep the fusion plasma from eroding divertor walls inside tokamak fusion machines.
A new way to safely, simply and effectively connect electricity-producing photovoltaic solar systems to utility company power grids has been developed by Sandia National Laboratories.
Pressures that zip from zero to a million crushing atmospheres in a few billionths of a second at Sandia's Z machine are testing materials with unheard-of precision. Z's may create new materials, aid stockpile stewardship, and answer basic physics questions.
A sampling device smaller than the tip of a fingernail promises big results for detecting and analyzing trace chemicals. The tool, developed by the DOE's Sandia National Laboratories, will allow chemical testing using small hand-held instruments, eliminating the need to send samples to a large laboratory.
In a new approach to studying atmospheric corrosion on copper, Sandia National Laboratories researchers are putting multiple corrosion experiments on a single silicon wafer in a type of micro-laboratory.
The Sandia Red Team has successfully attacked every computer system the team has attempted, demonstrating that competent outsiders can hack into almost all networked computers as presently conformed, no matter how well guarded, even when the attack method is announced in advance.
A new solar power initiative of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is bringing electricity to the homes of people living in remote areas of the reservation with support from the Department of EnergyÃs Sandia National Laboratories.
A recent study headed by Sandia suggests that major power emergencies like Monday's statewide conservation alert in California might be averted if power companies adopt new command and control software that predicts future energy demand rather than simply responds to it.
The first 1.3 micron electrically-pumped vertical cavity surface emitting laser grown on gallium arsenide has been developed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers. It promises to reduce the cost of high-speed fiber optics connections.
A recent DOE study headed by Sandia suggests that major power emergencies like Monday's statewide alert in California might be averted if power companies adopt new command and control software that predicts future energy demand rather than simply responds to it.
An intelligent software agent able to defend itself on the Worldwide Web has been created at Sandia National Laboratories. If every node on the Internet was run by one of these agents, the I-Love-You virus would not have got beyond the first machine, says lead scientist.
Enabling technologies for a new thin-film, ultralight deployable mirror that may be the future of space telescopes and surveillance satellites is being developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Kentucky.
Most inks are jumbles of particles but a new ink, created cheaply and rapidly of orderly nanoscopic pores, performs functions: one can use inkjet printers or even pens to write sensor arrays and fluidic or photonic systems directly, rather than mechanically construct them.
Millions of older men who suffer from urinary obstruction and associated pain caused by an enlarged prostate gland could benefit from new treatment technology developed by a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories.
A pilot program to help doctors identify and contain disease outbreaks has begun at Sandia National Laboratories; the program is expected to become operational this summer.
The best-studied model in science to discuss changes in state is the Ising Model; now a computational biologist has shown that a formal proof cannot be achieved in 3-D, so the model may be wrong (Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery's 2000 Symposium on the Theory of Computing, 5-00).
Technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories to remove toxins from groundwater contaminated by nuclear waste may offer clues about how to resolve a catastrophic environmental crisis in Bangladesh where arsenic-polluted wells are slowly poisoning and killing hundreds of thousands of people.
A powerful new portable chemical analysis device that fits in the palm of a hand is being developed by Sandia National Laboratories and will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society.
A "smart scalpel" mechanism to detect the presence of cancer cells as a surgeon cuts away a tumor has been developed in prototype by scientists at Sandia; the dime-sized patented device tells a surgeon when to stop cutting.
An innovative "natural" alternative to cleaning up uranium-contaminated sites is being studied by Sandia National Laboratories scientists as a way to replace costly and sometimes ineffective traditional techniques.
Sandia National Laboratories scientists are researching ways to use a new semiconductor alloy, indium gallium arsenide nitride, as a photovoltaic power source for space communications satellites and for lasers in fiber optics.
Sandia National Laboratories has created what are believed to be the world's first diamond micromachines.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have come up with a new approach to studying how and why engineered systems fail due to the actions or inaction of humans.
Israeli and Palestinian environmental researchers are collaborating and sharing information through a year-old project initiated by the Cooperative Monitoring Center at Sandia National Laboratories.
The same algorithm developed to help a swarm of tiny robots locate the point source of a chemical or biological attack will find an unfortunate skier buried under an avalanche in 1/4 the time of any known method.
Three small wind turbines spinning in the Texas Panhandle promise to answer some big questions researchers have long asked about how to harness wind power to generate electricity.
Micromirrors being developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories may one day be part of the Next Generation Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble that will peruse the universe looking for remnants from the period in which the first stars and galaxies formed.
In an inconspicuous, flat-roofed building on the high desert of New Mexico, a machine that creates temperatures rivaling those of the sun is helping physicists examine up-close what happens to iron in the grip of black holes and neutron stars.
A laboratory dedicated to detailed scientific observation of how alternative fuels, including plant-based biofuels, operate in a working engine is among the new capabilities being unveiled this month at an event celebrating expansion of the Combustion Research Facility, part of Sandia National Laboratories.
A portable chemical sensor system the size of a soccer ball being developed by scientists at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories, promises a new way of detecting and identifying even the smallest traces of explosives under water -- whether in a rice paddy or deep in the ocean.
A new advanced five-level polysilicon surface micromachining process pioneered at Sandia National Laboratories promises that microelectromechanical systems of the future will be more reliable and capable of doing increasingly complex tasks.
The largest construction project ever proposed by Sandia ó the $300 million Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Application (MESA) facility ó received DOE approval for the Laboratories to produce a conceptual design for weapons, business and university applications.
Sandia, a leader in the development of microsystems, seeks partners and contributors for research into MicroElectricalMechanical Systems (MEMs) that meld traditional engineering disciplines. Projects are showcased Sept. 20 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
A simple theoretical concept to solve the staggeringly difficult problem of maintaining intact electrical transmission lines to produce rapidly repeated thermonuclear explosions for peacetime purposes has been proposed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.
RSS
Medicine keyboard_arrow_right
Sciencekeyboard_arrow_right
Life keyboard_arrow_right
Business keyboard_arrow_right
Journal News keyboard_arrow_right
By Location keyboard_arrow_right
Meetings, Grants, and Events keyboard_arrow_right