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Anthrax-killing foam proves effective in meth lab cleanup

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia's decontamination foam, developed more than a decade ago and used to decontaminate federal office buildings and mailrooms during the 2001 anthrax attacks, is now being used to decontaminate illegal methamphetamine labs.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, NNSA’s Chemical and Biological National Security Program

Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing -- and that's the idea behind a power-over-fiber communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories.

IBEX probe glimpses interstellar neighborhood

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Space scientists, including researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, today described the first detailed analyses of captured interstellar neutral atoms -- raw material for the formation of new stars, planets and even human beings. Full details of the research comprise a six-paper special section in the February edition of Astrophysical Journal Supplements.

Sandia tool determines value of solar photovoltaic power systems

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Consistent appraisals of real estate outfitted with photovoltaic installations are a challenge for the nation's real estate industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Solar Power Electric and licensed by Sandia addresses that issue.

Funder: US Department of Energy/Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Sandia's self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn't be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters.

Nanotube 'glow sticks' transform surface science tool kit

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Many physical and chemical processes necessary for biology and chemistry occur at the interface of water and solid surfaces. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory publishing in Nature Nanotechnology have now shown that semiconducting carbon nanotubes -- light-emitting cylinders of pure carbon -- have the potential to detect and track single molecules in water.

Report spotlights Sandia Lab's impact on the economy

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories spent close to $1 billion overall on the procurement of goods and services in fiscal year 2011, and small businesses across the nation were awarded more than half those dollars, $540 million or 59 percent, according to the Labs' latest economic impact report.

Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research by a team of Sandia National Laboratories chemists could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy

Sandia, UK partners publish groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates in Science magazine

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a breakthrough paper published in this week's issue of Science magazine, researchers from Sandia's Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester and Bristol University report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-phase Criegee intermediate using photoionization mass spectrometry.

Journal: Science
Funder: Office of Basic Energy Sciences., Office of Science

Sandia cyber project looks to help IT professionals with complex DNS vulnerabilities

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global IT community better understand Domain Name System Security and to help them troubleshoot problems.