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Huge pressures that melt diamond on planet Neptune determined by Sandia researchers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined 10 times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ever before.

Journal: Science

Research highlights potential for improved solar cells

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication -- when a photon creates multiple electrons -- is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of extraneous effects that mimic carrier multiplication. The research, explained in a recent issue of Accounts of Chemical Research, shows the possibility of solar cells that create more than one unit of energy per photon.

Journal: Accounts of Chemical Research
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Biofuels can provide viable, sustainable solution to reducing petroleum dependence

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. has found that plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030.

Funder: General Motors

Sandia adopts new agreement forms to allow universities/industry to use facilities

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is adopting two new Department of Energy model agreements that will simplify the way universities and industry use the Labs facilities.

More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, Sandia simulation shows

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The multicore dilemma: More cores on a single chip don't necessarily mean faster clock speeds, a Sandia simulation has determined.

Sandia's microencapsulation project gives local entrepreneur warm glow

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories resident microencapsulation expert, Duane Schneider, is working with an Albuquerque company to use microencapsulation technology in a novel self-warming hand and body lotion.

Los Alamos observatory fingers cosmic ray 'hot spots'

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Los Alamos National Laboratory cosmic-ray observatory has seen for the first time two distinct hot spots that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays. The research calls into question nearly a century of understanding about galactic magnetic fields near our solar system.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation

Los Alamos scientists see new mechanism for superconductivity

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have posited an explanation for superconductivity that may open the door to the discovery of new, unconventional forms of superconductivity.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Sandia aids cleanup of Iraqi nuclear facilities, rad waste

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia scientists are helping train Iraqi scientists and technicians to clean up radioactively contaminated sites and safely dispose of the radioactive wastes as part of the Iraqi Nuclear Facility Dismantlement and Disposal Program.

Funder: US Department of Agriculture/Cooperative State Research

Sandia, SES win Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Innovator Award

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Chuck Andraka, Sandia National Laboratories engineer, and Bruce Osborn, chief operating officer of Stirling Energy Systems, were honored with a Popular Mechanics magazine Breakthrough Innovator Award Oct. 15 during a ceremony at the Hearst Tower in New York City.

Funder: Stirling Energy Systems