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Balloons and drones and clouds; oh, my!

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Last week, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories flew a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system, colloquially known as a drone, together for the first time to get Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than ever before.

The good, the bad and the algae

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is testing whether one of California's largest and most polluted lakes can transform into one of its most productive and profitable. Southern California's 350-square-mile Salton Sea has well-documented problems related to elevated levels of nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural runoff. Sandia intends to harness algae's penchant for prolific growth to clean up these pollutants and stop harmful algae blooms while creating a renewable, domestic source of fuel.

Study reveals exactly how low-cost fuel cell catalysts work

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New work at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge national laboratories is resolving difficult fuel-cell performance questions, both in determining efficient new materials and understanding how they work at an atomic level. The research is described this week in the journal Science

Journal: Science

Single-photon emitter has promise for quantum info-processing

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos National Laboratory has produced the first known material capable of single-photon emission at room temperature and at telecommunications wavelengths.

Journal: Nature Photonics

Simulation reveals universal signature of chaos in ultracold reactions

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have performed the first ever quantum-mechanical simulation of the benchmark ultracold chemical reaction between potassium-rubidium (KRb) and a potassium atom, opening the door to new controlled chemistry experiments and quantum control of chemical reactions that could spark advances in quantum computing and sensing technologies.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Air Force Office of Science, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Army Research Office's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, National Science Foundation

Lighting up the study of low-density materials

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories studies myriads of low-density materials, from laminate layers in airplane wings to foams and epoxies that cushion parts. So Sandia borrowed and refined a technique being studied by the medical field, X-ray phase contrast imaging, to look inside the softer side of things without taking them apart.

Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries focus of Sandia Labs study

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Maritime transportation has emerged as one solution to the traffic gridlock that plagues coastal cities. But with urban passenger ferries operating in sensitive environments and tourist areas, hydrogen fuel cell-powered passenger ferries offer a quiet, zero-emission alternative to conventional diesel vessels.

Funder: US Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration's Maritime Environmental and Technical Assistance program

Algae production research gets boost at Los Alamos

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of three projects to receive up to $8 million, aimed at reducing the costs of producing algal biofuels and bioproducts.

Clean water that's 'just right' with Sandia sensor solution

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Working with Parker Hannifin, Sandia National Laboratories combined basic research on an interesting form of carbon with a unique microsensor to make an easy-to-use, table-top tool that quickly and cheaply detects disinfection byproducts in our drinking water before it reaches consumers.

New Mexico firm uses motion of the ocean to bring fresh water to coastal communities

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Working with scientists at Sandia National Laboratories through the New Mexico Small Business Assistance program, a Santa Fe company has produced a pump system that uses wave power to send pressurized seawater onto shore where it is desalinated without the use of external energy.

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