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Sandia effort images the sea monster of nuclear fusion: The Rayleigh-Taylor instability

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new X-ray imaging capability has taken pictures of a critical instability at the heart of Sandia's huge Z accelerator. The effort may help remove a major impediment in the worldwide, multi-decade, multi-billion dollar effort to harness nuclear fusion to generate electrical power from sea water.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Meeting: American Physical Society Annual Plasma Physics Meeting

National Cancer Institute awards nearly $4 million to University of New Mexico Cancer Center

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

The National Cancer Institute recently announced two five-year awards totaling nearly $4 million for a partnership between the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories.

Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute

Scientists produce transparent, light-harvesting material

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric charge over a relatively large area. The material, described in the journal Chemistry of Materials, could be used in development of transparent solar panels.

Journal: Chemistry of Materials

Consortium to design human trials of mosaic HIV vaccine

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Bette Korber is part of an international team of investigators working to design and implement the first human trial of a mosaic HIV vaccine candidate. The vaccine represents a novel strategy for fighting the virus that causes AIDS by attempting to address one of the most daunting challenges in HIV vaccine design: the virus's extensive genetic diversity.

Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, Sandia simulations show

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

It may seem obvious that dunking relatively spherical objects in a sauce -- blueberries in melted chocolate, say -- will result in an array of completely encapsulated berries.

Rain or shine, Sandia researchers find new ways to forecast large photovoltaic power plant output

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a new system to monitor how clouds affect large-scale solar photovoltaic power plants. By observing cloud shape, size and movement, the system provides a way for utility companies to predict and prepare for fluctuations in power output due to changes in weather. The resulting models will provide utility companies with valuable data to assess potential power plant locations, ramp rates and power output.

Sandia researcher: Amateur astronomers open potential lab in outer space for planetary scientists

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two amateur astronomers who independently observed and videotaped an asteroid striking the giant planet Jupiter on June 3 have opened the possibility, in effect, of a giant research lab in space for planetary scientists.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Letters

LEDs promise brighter future, not necessarily greener

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Solid-state lighting pioneers long have held that replacing the inefficient Edison light bulb with more efficient solid-state light-emitting devices (LEDs) would lower electrical usage worldwide, not only "greenly" decreasing the need for new power plants but even permitting some to be decommissioned. But, in a paper published Thursday in the Journal of Physics D, leading LED researchers from Sandia National Laboratories argue for a shift in that view.

Mimicking the moon's surface in the basement

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists used an ion beam in a basement room at Los Alamos National Laboratory to simulate solar winds on the surface of the moon. The table-top simulation helped confirm that the moon is inherently dry.

Kinked nanopores slow DNA passage for easier sequencing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an innovation critical to improved DNA sequencing, a markedly slower transmission of DNA through nanopores has been achieved by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researchers.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences, Sandia Laboratory-Directed R&D