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Continuing Support For U.S. Nuclear Arsenal: National Study Conducted By University Of New Mexico Shows Public Believes US Faces Nuclear Threats

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Though the Cold War has been over for more than seven years, most Americans continue to believe the U.S. remains at risk of nuclear conflict, and they support maintenance of a stockpile of nuclear weapons to ensure the safety of the country. These were among the many findings of a recently completed study of attitudes about nuclear weapons and national security conducted for Sandia National Laboratories by researchers at the Institute for Public Policy of the University of New Mexico.

Funder: Sandia National Laboratories

Microscopic Machines May Replace Quartz Crystals: Pollen-Grain-Sized Parts May Appear In Watches, TVs, Computers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A microelectromechanical device that functions as a clock source has been built in prototype at Sandia. The miniscule machines with moving parts the size of a pollen grain perform the same job as quarz crystals, the traditional technology used in timing devices in all digital electronics.

Funder: DOE

These Seashells Not Sold At The Seashore: Sandia, UNM Mimic Structure Of Seashells To Create Strong, Tough Coatings

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Seashells have been valued for their beauty and utility for thousands of years. Now, in the journal Nature, Sandia scientists disclose a rapid and efficent method to self- assemble diverse materials into coatings that mimic seashell structures and are twice as strong as the same materials mixed randomly.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Sandia Laboratory Research and Development and National Science Foundation, DOE

Improved Oxygen Bath To Heal Wounds, Lessen Number Of Amputations: Sandia To Sign Agreement With Numotech To Help Create Home-Use Healing Facility

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers are developing inexpensive sensors and pumps to make possible the home use of a relatively inexpensive oxygen bath, carefully calibrated, for the large number of elderly, paraplegics, diabetics, and burn and trauma victims, who suffer wounds, pressure ulcers or sores.

Testing 'Invisible' Machines: Sandia's Reliability Tests Advance Future Of Micromachine Systems

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Work at Sandia National Laboratories to determine the reliability of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) may mean that one day soon, most electronics devices will contain the micron-size machines. Their use may expand and change the electronics industry if they prove to be highly reliable.

Funder: Department of Energy

Rapid Road Repair Vehcile Would Fix Potholes On The Fly

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia lab technician who dreamed of a bus-sized vehicle that would fix potholes as it drove over them has received a patent on his idea. The vehicle would use scanners to see cracks in the road and be equipped with a global positioning system and cell phone to pinpoint and call in the location of really big cracks.

Tracking Hepatitis C: Health Project Demos Worldwide Early-Warning System For Disease Outbreaks; Sandia Tests Disease-Tracking Approach

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As part of a Sandia National Laboratories-led effort to create a worldwide disease tracking network, hospital emergency rooms in three New Mexico cities and in a formerly secret Russian city this week began gathering and posting on the Internet information about an emerging disease, hepatitis C, that physicians say could have major world health implications.

Device Determines Food Not Fit To Eat: Refrozen Food Detector Patented By Sandia

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An inexpensive indicator that warns when a package of frozen food has been thawed and then refrozen has been patented by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Defrosting and then refreezing permits growth of dangerous bacteria and can degrade the taste of food.

Funder: Department of Energy

Hot Research At Sandia May Make Producing Electricity From Geothermal Energy More Cost Competitive

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers may make electricity derived from geothermal energy more economically feasible with new electronic instrument systems that can operate at more than 100 degrees hotter than current instrumentation.

Funder: DOE

Wear-Resistant Diamond Coating Created By Sandia Scientists: Superhard Material Thickly Coats Metals, Plastics, Also Stands Alone

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An ultrahard diamond coating applied as thickly as desired -- something never before achieved -- and at room temperatures has been created by scientists at Sandia National Labs. The advance means improved protection for metal tools, auto parts and even plastics, including biomedical devices.

Journal: Applied Physics Letters
Funder: DOE