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MEMS student design contest winners announced by Sandia

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Teams from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are winners of Sandia's third annual University Alliance competition for student microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) designs.

Sensor to have applications in homeland defense, safeguarding warfighters, clinical diagnostics

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia National Laboratories research team is developing a new type of electrochemical sensor that uses a unique surface chemistry to reliably and accurately detects thousands of differing biomolecules on a single platform.

Sandia decon formulation, best known as an anthrax killer, takes on household mold

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Scott's Liquid Gold Mold Control 500 -- a product based on a technology originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories -- is now available on the shelves of hardware stores across the country.

Rapid-fire pulse brings Sandia Z method closer to goal of high-yield fusion reactor

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary experiments and computer simulations at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine facility.

Sandia researchers take new approach to studying how cells respond to pathogens

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia research team is taking a new approach to studying how immune cells respond to pathogens in the first few minutes and hours of exposure. Their method looks at cells one at a time as they start trying to fight the invading pathogens.

Sandia researchers help to understand climate change

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers Mark Ivey and Bernie Zak are members of a research team from around the world whose work on the cold tundra in northern Alaska is helping to transform scientists' understanding of what the future may hold for Earth's climate.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Sandia handheld instrument assesses dental disease in minutes

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

According to a paper in the March 27 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a recently completed pilot study conducted with the University of Michigan shows that a Sandia handheld device determined in minutes -- from a tiny sample of saliva alone -- not only if a patient has gum disease but quantitatively how advanced the disease is.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Ice created in nanoseconds by Sandia's Z machine

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia's huge Z machine, which generates termperatures hottter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds. However, don't expect anything commercial just yet: the ice is hotter than the boiling point of water.

Theory aims to describe fundamental properties of materials

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Gold is shiny, diamonds are transparent and iron is magnetic. Why is that? The answer lies with a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories about a material's electronic structure, which determines its electrical, optical and magnetic properties.

Sandia helps develop new wind turbine blade design

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia developed in partnership with Knight & Carver of San Diego should significantly reduce the cost-of-energy (COE) of wind turbines at low-wind-speed sites. Named "STAR" for Sweep Twist Adaptive Rotor, the blade is the first of its kind produced at a utility-grade size.