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Sandia experimental package of piezoelectric films to be part of NASA space station experiment

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the past three years a Sandia research team has been investigating the performance of piezoelectric polymer films that might one day become ultra-light mirrors in space telescopes. In 2007, a Labs' experimental package of polymers will be part of a NASA experiment on the upcoming Materials International Space Station Experiment.

Sandia researchers solve mystery of attractive surfaces

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rough hydrophobic surfaces, self-assembled by nanotechnology techniques, attract each other under water over long distances by lowering the pressure between them. This occurs because water, to escape water-hating surfaces, turns into water vapor, creating a cavity of lower pressure than the water around it.

Journal: Nature

Sandia-developed device determines how well wind turbines operate

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia's Wind Energy Technology Department has developed a device, the Accurate Time Linked Data Acquisition System (ATLAS II), to help engineers determine efficiency and health of wind turbines. The device can also provide all of the information necessary to the understand how well a machine is performing.

Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sensors, TB modeling, cell preparation and surgical implant safety may all be improved by a Sandia Labs and University of New Mexico discovery that live cells improve nanostructures when inserted in slurry that, drying, self-assembles into them. The nanostructures support single-cell life forms that are sensitive to and interact with their environment.

Sandia researchers apply energy surety model to military bases

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia National Laboratories research team has taken a labs-developed energy surety model to a tangible level by applying it to military bases.

Sandia applies a surety approach in creating solutions to energy challenges

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia is looking at what energy practices can best answer U.S. current needs while not making compromises for future generations. The information is in a recently-released internal SAND report, Toward an Energy Surety Future.

Sandia wins two R&D 100 awards

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia researchers and their collaborators have won two R&D 100 awards for the Compute Process Allocator, a computer algorithm technology, and the HTSS10V solid-state fluoride-based battery.

Sandia's ASCI red, world's first teraflop supercomputer, is decommissioned

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

On a table in a small meeting room at Sandia National Laboratories rested a picture of the deceased -- a row of identical cabinets that formed part of the entity known as ASCI Red, the world's first teraflop supercomputer. Still one of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers after nine years, ASCI Red was being decommissioned.

Sandia preemptive spark helps find intermittent electrical short circuits in airplanes

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A preemptive spark lasting for nanoseconds that helps find potentially dangerous intermittent electrical short circuits hidden in the miles of wiring behind the panels of aging commercial airliners has been patented by Sandia National Laboratories.

Funder: US Navy, National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Federal Aviation Administration

'Prettier world' of computer modeling provides key details, says Sandia researcher

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nanotechnology simulations show what experiments miss. Taking issue with the perception that computer models lack realism, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Eliot Fang told members of the Materials Research Society that simulations of the nanoscale provide researchers more detailed results - not less - than experiments alone.

Meeting: Materials Research Society Semiannual General Meeting