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Efficient, 'green' quantum-dot solar cells exploit defects

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Novel quantum dot solar cells developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory match the efficiency of existing quantum-dot based devices, but without lead or other toxic elements that most solar cells of this type rely on.

Journal: Nature Energy
Funder: Office of Basic Energy Sciences., Biosciences and Geosciences Division, Solar Photochemistry Program of the Chemical Sciences

Sandia Labs wins 4 national tech transfer awards

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories won four technology transfer awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. The awards are ranked as some of the most prestigious honors for federal laboratories and industry partners that demonstrate outstanding technology transfer achievements.

Sandia tests distillery's hand sanitizer developed to address severe shortage

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

In response to the severe, widespread shortage of hand sanitizer during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wayward Sons Craft-Distillery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reconfigured its operations to produce a hand sanitizer they named Elbow Bump, and worked with Sandia National Laboratories to test and confirm that it meets standards set by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Teens pay it forward, use 3D printers built at Sandia to make face shields

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Teens who built 3D printers during a weeklong robotics camp at Sandia National Laboratories last year have used them to make more than 3,000 face shields that have been donated to medical professionals and first responders in New Mexico.

Sandia tests distillery's hand sanitizer developed to address severe shortage

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

In response to the severe, widespread shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wayward Sons Craft-Distillery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reconfigured its operations to produce a hand sanitizer they named Elbow Bump, and worked with Sandia National Laboratories to test and confirm that it meets standards set by the World Health Organization and the US Food and Drug Administration.

El Niño-linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research has found that El Niño events are often associated with droughts in some of the world's more vulnerable tropical regions. Associated with warmer than average ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific, El Niños can in turn influence global weather patterns and tropical precipitation, and these changes can lead to massive plant die-offs if other extreme factors are also at play.

Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Sandia tests distillery's hand sanitizer developed to address severe shortage

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Distillery-developed hand sanitizer is leaving a New Mexico warehouse as quickly as it disappeared from grocery stores after Sandia National Laboratories helped confirm the product meets all federal requirements for distribution.

Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office and Los Alamos National Laboratory partner

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office (NLO) and Los Alamos National Laboratory have formed a collaborative research effort to make extremely large data sets indexable and more easily searchable.

Automating complex 3D modeling

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A team of researchers led by Sandia National Laboratories invented a first-of-its-kind software for scientists to create accurate digital representations of complex objects. The software, VoroCrust, incorporates special types of 3D polyhedral cells called Voronoi cells to create the meshes.

Funder: Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, Department of Energy Spent Fuel and Waste Science and Technology Campaign

Self-powered X-ray detector to revolutionize imaging for medicine, security and research

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

2D perovskite thin films boost sensitivity 100-fold compared to conventional detectors, require no outside power source, and enable low-dose dental and medical images.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory, Laboratory Directed Research and Development

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