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Rocks may hold key to storing intermittent renewable energy, expanding its use

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with New Mexico-based CSolPower LLC to develop an affordable method of storing energy from renewable sources. The primary goal of the partnership is to transition to zero-carbon solar and wind energy for generating electricity.

Wearable sensor to monitor ‘last line of defense’ antibiotic

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have combined earlier work on painless microneedles with nanoscale sensors to create a wearable sensor patch capable of continuously monitoring the levels of a ‘last line of defense’ antibiotic.

Journal: Biosensors and Bioelectronics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Chi-Nu experiment ends with data to support nuclear security, energy reactors

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding criticality safety and designing fast-neutron energy reactors. The Chi-Nu project, a years-long experiment measuring the energy spectrum of neutrons emitted from neutron-induced fission, recently concluded the most detailed and extensive uncertainty analysis of the three major actinide elements — uranium-238, uranium-235 and plutonium-239.

Journal: Physical Review C
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Beyond Bennu: How OSIRIS-REx is helping scientists study the sonic signature of meteoroids

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories are partnering with other labs and agencies on a campaign to record and characterize the infrasound and seismic waves generated by NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule as it moves through Earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speed, about 26,000 miles per hour.

Journal: Atmosphere

Sandia National Laboratories engineer named Scientist of the Year

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

A nuclear engineer from Sandia National Laboratories has been named Scientist of the Year by Great Minds in Stem/Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation HENAAC, an organization tasked with highlighting outstanding Hispanics in the STEM field.

Increasing national security with satellites that team together

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories has been working on an autonomy project led by the Air Force Research Laboratory that could improve the nation’s ability to conduct national security missions, including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, climate monitoring and emergency response.

High-tech invisible ink spells trouble for counterfeiters

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A high-tech invisible ink invented at Sandia National Laboratories could become the newest tool for stopping counterfeit goods. The research team is now seeking partnerships to help develop and ultimately commercialize the new technology.

Not too big: Machine learning tames huge data sets

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer’s available memory by identifying a massive data set’s key features and dividing them into manageable batches that don’t choke computer hardware. Developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the algorithm set a world record for factorizing huge data sets during a test run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit, the world’s fifth-fastest supercomputer. Equally efficient on laptops and supercomputers, the highly scalable algorithm solves hardware bottlenecks that prevent processing information from data-rich applications in cancer research, satellite imagery, social media networks, national security science and earthquake research, to name just a few.

Journal: The Journal of Supercomputing
Funder: DNN, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The race to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, again

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia National Laboratories will have made one smaller than a sugar cube. But he’s not the only one pushing the limits of tiny timepieces.

Making materials more durable through science

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A team at Sandia National Laboratories developed a molecule that helps change the way some materials react to temperature fluctuations, which makes them more durable. It’s an application that could be used in everything from plastic phone cases to missiles.

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