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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

Sandia Formally Proposes To Design Accelerator Expected To Achieve High-YieldFusion

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Permission to prepare a conceptual design for an accelerator, X-1, expected to achieve high-yield fusion by imploding capsules of deuterium and tritium, has been formally requested by Sandia of DOE. The request was made after Sandia's prototype Z accelerator passed its fourth and final milestone last week, producing power, energy and heat far exceeding requirements.

Funder: DOE

Like Sticking A Balloon To A Sweater: Electrostatic Chuck To Improve Microchip Production Patented By Sandia

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A device expected to be potentially more effective than any on the market in helping cool silicon wafers during the chip manufacturing process has been patented in prototype by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.

Funder: DOE/Sematech

Not Science Fiction Any More: Sandia Scientists Develop Quantum Mechanical Transistor

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a transistor based on quantum mechanical principles. The device is much faster than any commecial transistor in use today and is created with readily available manufacturing techniques. .

Journal: Applied Physics Letters
Funder: DOE Defense Programs