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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

Entrepreneur teams with scientists to bring vaccines to far reaches of the world

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

With technical help from Sandia National Laboratories through the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, a Santa Fe entrepreneur has developed a solar thermal icemaker to cool high-performance shipping containers that safely transport and store temperature-sensitive vaccines and biopharmaceuticals. Thousands of the systems are now being used throughout the world.

Magnetically stimulated flow patterns offer strategy for heat transfer problems

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories researchers discover how to harness magnetic fields to create vigorous, organized fluid flows in particle suspensions.

Laminar-flow cleanroom inventor honored posthumously by National Inventors Hall of Fame

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized manufacturing in electronics and pharmaceuticals, made hospital operating rooms safer and advanced space exploration.

'Fore!' heads up, wide use of more flexible metallic glass coming your way

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tweaking the shearing characteristics of materials such as glass has important applications well beyond the sporting worldof glass-faced golf clubs, it's a matter of broader impact, aiding such fields as space science, electrical transformers, cell phone cases, and yes, golf clubs, because their mechanical and magnetic properties are highly adjustable.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: National Science Foundation

Portable hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide green, sustainable power to Honolulu port

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Clean hydrogen power that's expected to lower emissions and reduce energy consumption will be coming to the Port of Honolulu in 2015 after the completion of a new fuel cell technology demonstration, one that could lead to a commercial technology for ports worldwide.

Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, DOT/MARAD

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