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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

Sandia's Greg White chosen as a New Face of Engineering 2014

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia engineer Greg White has been chosen as one of the 2014 New Faces of Engineering, a recognition program that highlights the work of engineers ages 30 and younger.

Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Introducition of a secondary, weaker magnetic field into a fusion experiment at Sandia's Z machine unexpectedly reduced the plasma disturbance that customarily sinks fusion efforts.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: National Nuclear Security Administratoin

Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in 'tinker toy' materials to appear in Science

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a novel way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework materials, a development that could have profound implications for the future of electronics, sensors, energy conversion and energy storage.

Journal: Science
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Engineer honored for contributions to precision strike systems

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

The chief engineer of Conventional Prompt Global Strike programs at Sandia National Laboratories has been honored with a national award for his outstanding contributions to precision strike systems.

Combustion chemist to be awarded Polanyi Medal for pioneering work at Sandia Labs

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories combustion chemist Craig Taatjes, whose groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates has provided scientific insight into hydrocarbon combustion and atmospheric chemistry, has been selected to receive the prestigious Polanyi Medal by the International Symposium on Gas Kinetics.

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