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Government relations manager at Sandia Labs honored by American Physical Society

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Benn Tannenbaum, manager of Sandia National Laboratories' Washington, DC, office, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was nominated by its Forum on Physics and Society.

Managing the data deluge for national security analysts

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

National security analysts often find that available data is growing much faster than their ability to observe and process it. Sometimes they can't make key connections and often they are overwhelmed struggling to use data for predictions and forensics. Sandia National Laboratories' Pattern Analytics to Support High-Performance Exploitation and Reasoning team has developed solutions that will enable analysts to work smarter, faster and more effectively when looking at complex data in real-time, stressful environments.

Journal: Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal

Nanoscale, multidimensional artificial magnet created

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with a group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source and with other researchers nationwide, have realized a nanoscale, artificial magnet by arranging an array of magnetic nano-islands along a geometry that is not found in natural magnets. Their paper 'Emergent reduced dimensionality by vertex frustration in artificial spin ice' appears on the journal Nature Physics' website today.

W80-4: Sandia California works on nuclear weapon Life Extension Program

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is performing a Life Extension Program on the W80-4 nuclear weapon. The Life Extension Program is refurbishing the W80 warhead with replacement components for aging technology and components that have limited lifespans. Much of the work is being done at Sandia's California site.

Los Alamos-led consortium works to enhance fuel cell technology

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is leading a Department of Energy- Fuel Cells Technologies Office-funded project to enhance the performance and durability of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, while simultaneously reducing their cost.

Bay Area national labs team to tackle long-standing automotive hydrogen storage challenge

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories will lead a new tri-lab consortium to address unsolved scientific challenges in the development of viable solid-state materials for storage of hydrogen onboard vehicles. Better onboard hydrogen storage could lead to more reliable and economic hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Dirt-cheap catalyst may lower fuel costs for hydrogen-powered cars

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bringing closer a mass market for hydrogen-powered cars, Sandia researchers are upgrading $0.37/gram molybdenum disulfide, 'molly' for short, to take the place of $1,500/gram catalyst platinum. Unlike gasoline, hydrogen as fuel releases water, not carbon, into the air.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Large trees -- key climate influencers -- die first in drought

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In forests worldwide, drought consistently has had a more detrimental impact on the growth and survival of larger trees, new research shows. In addition, while the death of small trees may affect the dominance of trees in a landscape, the death of large trees has a far worse impact on the ecosystem and climate's health, especially due to the important role that trees play in the carbon cycle.

Journal: Nature Plants
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Smithsonian Competitive Grants Program for Science, Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Los Alamos explores hybrid ultrasmall gold nanocluster for enzymatic fuel cells

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

With fossil-fuel sources dwindling, better biofuel cell design is a strong candidate in the energy field. In research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Los Alamos researchers and external collaborators synthesized and characterized a new DNA-templated gold nanocluster (AuNC) that could resolve a critical methodological barrier for efficient biofuel cell design.

Los Alamos explores hybrid ultrasmall gold nanocluster for enzymatic fuel cells

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With fossil-fuel sources dwindling, better biofuel cell design is a strong candidate in the energy field. In research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Los Alamos researchers and external collaborators synthesized and characterized a new DNA-templated gold nanocluster (AuNC) that could resolve a critical methodological barrier for efficient biofuel cell design.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society

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