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Glowing designer sponges: New nanoparticles engineered to image and treat cancer

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A team of Sandia National Laboratories researchers led by materials chemist Dorina Sava Gallis recently designed and synthesized metal-organic framework nanoparticles that glow red or near infrared for at least two days in cells, useful properties for tracking cancer growth and spread.

New radiation detectors developed at Sandia used for New START inspections

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories designed and produced new radiation detection equipment for New START Treaty monitoring. New START is a treaty between the United States and Russia that, among other limits, reduces the deployed nuclear warheads on both sides to 1,550 by Feb. 5.

Researchers at Sandia work on new way to image brain

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories researchers want to use small magnetic sensors to image the brain in a way that's simpler and less expensive than the magnetoencephalography system now used.

New Sandia balloon-borne infrasound sensor array detects explosions

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Danny Bowman, a Sandia National Laboratories geophysicist, launched a fleet of five solar-powered hot air balloons last year. They reached a height of 13 to 15 miles, twice as high as commercial jets, and detected the infrasound from a test explosion. Infrasound is sound of very low frequencies, below 20 hertz, which is lower than humans can hear, and can be used to monitor explosions, including those caused by nuclear tests.

Pioneering smart grid technology solves decades old problematic power grid phenomenon

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and Montana Tech University have demonstrated an R&D 100 award-winning control system that smooths out inter-area oscillations using new smart grid technology in the western power grid. The new system allows utilities to push more electricity through transmission lines, leading to lower costs for utilities and consumers and greater stability for the grid.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Bonneville Power Administration

Tweaking quantum dots powers-up double-pane solar windows

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboraotry are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and also create shading and insulation. It's all made possible by a new window architecture which utilizes two different layers of low-cost quantum dots tuned to absorb different parts of the solar spectrum. The approach complements existing photovoltaic technology by adding high-efficiency sunlight collectors to existing solar panels or integrating them as semitransparent windows into a building's architecture.

Journal: Nature Photonics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Energy Frontier Research Centre

Sandia computer modeling aids solder reliability in nuclear weapons

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Solder isn't the first thing that comes to mind as essential to a nuclear weapon. But since weapons contain hundreds of thousands of solder joints, each potentially a point of failure, Sandia National Laboratories has developed and refined computer models to predict their performance and reliability.

Sandia researchers make solid ground toward better lithium-ion battery interfaces

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research at Sandia National Laboratories has identified a major obstacle to advancing solid-state lithium-ion battery performance in small electronics: the flow of lithium ions across battery interfaces.

Journal: Nano Letters

Goodyear, Sandia Labs mark 25 years of using computer simulations to improve tire design

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company have worked together for 25 years to create better vehicle tires and more advanced computational mechanics.

Superior hydrogen catalyst just grows that way

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A printing process uses natural forces to grow an inexpensive catalyst to replace platinum to lower the cost of hydrogen-powered cars.

Journal: Advanced Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, University of California Merced University

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