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Engineering better machines and buildings by understanding mechanics of materials

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is working to fill gaps in the fundamental understanding of materials science through an ambitious long-term, multidisciplinary project called Predicting Performance Margins, or PPM. From the atomic level to full-scale components, the research links variability in materials' atomic configurations and microstructures with how actual parts perform.

Widespread hydrogen fueling infrastructure goal of H2FIRST project

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations' availability and reliability.

Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Airport security officers at TSA gaining insight from Sandia human behavior studies

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent Sandia National Laboratories study offers insight into how a federal transportation security officer's thought process can influence decisions made during airport baggage screening, findings that are helping the Transportation Security Administration improve the performance of its security officers.

Funder: US Transportation Security Administration

Pocket-sized anthrax detector aids global agriculture

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper.

Los Alamos physicist honored with E.O. Lawrence Award

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist John Sarrao is being honored by the US Department of Energy with the 2013 Ernest O. Lawrence Award in Condensed Matter and Materials Sciences.

Wind tunnel tests support improved aerodynamic design of B61-12 bomb

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories has finished eight days of testing a full-scale mock unit representing the aerodynamic characteristics of the B61-12 gravity bomb in a wind tunnel. The tests on the mock-up were done to establish the configuration that will deliver the necessary spin motion of the bomb during freefall and are an important milestone in the Life Extension Program to deliver a new version of the aging system, the B61-12.

Low-cost, hydrogen-powered forklifts with rapid refueling, zero emissions coming soon

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell systems soon could be powering the forklifts used in warehouses and other industrial settings at lower costs and with faster refueling times than ever before, courtesy of a partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers. The goal of the project is to design a solid-state hydrogen storage system that can refuel at low pressure four to five times faster than it takes to charge a battery-powered forklift.

Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Shiny quantum dots brighten future of solar cells

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in collaboration with scientists from University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Their project demonstrates that superior light-emitting properties of quantum dots can be applied in solar energy by helping more efficiently harvest sunlight.

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

Resilient cities focus of new Sandia, Rockefeller Foundation pact to help 100 communities

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories will bring decades of experience solving problems with practical engineering and modeling complex systems to cities around the world under a new agreement to support the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation.

ATHENA desktop human 'body' could reduce need for animal drug tests

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Creating surrogate human organs, coupled with insights from highly sensitive mass spectrometry technologies, a new project is on the brink of revolutionizing the way we screen new drugs and toxic agents. ATHENA, the Advanced Tissue-engineered Human Ectypal Network Analyzer project team, is developing four human organ constructs -- liver, heart, lung and kidney -- that are based on a significantly miniaturized platform.

Funder: Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Meeting: Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting

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