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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.

Bright thinking leads to breakthrough in nuclear threat detection science

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has dramatically improved the science of scintillators -- objects that detect nuclear threats. According to the team, using organic glass scintillators could soon make it even harder to smuggle nuclear materials through America's ports and borders.

Sandia creates better 'fingerprints' to detect elusive, valuable chemical compounds

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories chemists David Osborn and Carl Hayden have created a custom-made instrument that has enhanced the power of a method called photoelectron photoion coincidence, or PEPICO, spectroscopy.

Upgrades at Sandia Lab's Tonopah Test Range help weapons testing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

It's been a challenge for Sandia National Laboratories' Tonopah Test Range to keep decades-old equipment running while gathering detailed information required for 21st century non-nuclear testing. Over the past several years, the Nevada range changed the analog brains in instruments to digital, moved to modern communications systems and upgraded telemetry and tracking equipment and computing systems.

Mechanical engineering society elects 4 fellows from Sandia Labs

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers make up only 3.1 percent of ASME's 107,895 members. Sandia National Laboratories engineers Cliff Ho, Alexander Brown, Hy Tran and Kevin Dowding now are members of that elite group.

'Charliecloud' simplifies Big Data supercomputing

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

At Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to more than 100 supercomputers since the dawn of the computing era, elegance and simplicity of programming are highly valued but not always achieved. In the case of a new product, dubbed 'Charliecloud,' a crisp 800-line code helps supercomputer users operate in the high-performance world of Big Data without burdening computer center staff with the peculiarities of their particular software needs.

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