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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

Techniques could create better material, design in high-consequence uses

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is studying additive manufacturing and its potential for high-consequence applications. Two aspects of that effort are to understand both the properties of newly formed materials and how to design to get just what's needed without over-designing.

Nothing but water: Hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide renewable power to Honolulu port

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A new chapter in clean energy is starting in Hawaii. At Young Brothers Ltd.'s Port of Honolulu facility, Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Maritime Hydrogen Fuel Cell project to test a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered generator as an alternative to conventional diesel generators.

'Laboratory Biorisk Management' details safety, security methods for biosciences sites

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Book Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories announces a new book, titled 'Laboratory Biorisk Management.' It's the first full-length manuscript detailing the implementation of biorisk management principles to improve the safety and security of biosciences labs.

New arena of power generation set in motion with MOU

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and eight other companies and research organizations will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner, more efficient electricity.

Young, Jupiter-like planet discovered

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers has discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could provide a new understanding of how planets formed around our sun.

Journal: Science

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