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Sandia Labs Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory undergoing $4.2 million stimulus fund renovation

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia's world-renowned Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory is undergoing a major renovation so Sandia researchers can test larger batteries for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

Sandia National Labs completes final scan of space shuttle heat shield

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

After Columbia's debris-damaged heat shield failed in 2003, causing the tragic accident that took the lives of all seven on board, Sandia developed a laser dynamic range imager, or LDRI, which generates 3-D images from 2-D video.

Sandia's CANARY software protects water utilities from terrorist attacks and contaminants

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Americans are used to drinking from the kitchen tap without fear of harm, even though water utilities might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants. Now, thanks to CANARY Event Detection Software -- an open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- public water systems can be protected through enhanced detection of such threats.

Researchers find potential key for unlocking biomass energy

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a potential key for unlocking the energy potential from non-edible biomass materials such as corn leaves and stalks, or switch grass.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society

Fuel cell mobile lighting system featured at Space Shuttle Atlantis launch

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Fuel cells are used in the space shuttle as one component of the electrical power system, so perhaps it was appropriate that a hydrogen fuel cell-powered mobile lighting system could be seen on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center as the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched into space last week, the 135th and final mission for the NASA Space Shuttle Program.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Sandia's 'cooler' technology offers fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technology with the potential to dramatically alter the air-cooling landscape in computing and microelectronics and lab officials are now seeking licensees in the electronics chip cooling field to license and commercialize the device. The "Sandia Cooler," also known as the "Air Bearing Heat Exchanger," is a novel, proprietary air-cooling invention developed by Sandia researcher Jeff Koplow.

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

Micro-dragonflies and microvalves make mark at annual MEMS student design contest

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

A dragonfly as small as a dust mote, its four tiny wings beating like it had momentarily alit on a lily pad, and a highly sensitive microvalve were the big winners in this year's student design contest for extraordinarily tiny devices at Sandia National Laboratories. The winners -- Texas Tech University for the novel insect and Carnegie Mellon University for the valve -- were announced at a recent Sandia awards ceremony.

Funder: International Society for Optics and Photonics, Sandia National Labs

Solar wind samples give insight into birth of solar system

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first oxygen and nitrogen isotopic measurements of the Sun are complete, demonstrating that they are very different from the same elements on Earth. These results were the top two priorities of NASA's Genesis mission, which crashed on reentry to Earth. But the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Solar Wind Concentrator survived the crash and eventually yielded today's solar secrets.

Journal: Science
Funder: NASA

Los Alamos National Laboratory earns 3 R&D 100 Awards

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have won three of R&D Magazine's 2011 R&D100 Awards. Recognized as the "Oscars of Invention" by the Chicago Tribune, these awards honor the top 100 proven technological advances of the past year. The winning Laboratory technologies include a molecular beacon that targets specific nucleic acids, a spacer fluid for oil wells that shrinks when heated, and a better way to produce thorium, an elemental sustainable energy source.

Sandia captures 4 R&D 100 Awards

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Four R&D awards in a range of fields have been awarded Sandia Labs researchers.