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Nanoscale engineering boosts performance of quantum dot light emitting diodes

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dramatic advances in the field of quantum dot light emitting diodes could come from recent work by the Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy team at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Water for future Mars astronauts?

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Within its first three months on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover saw a surprising diversity of soils and sediments along a half-kilometer route that tell a complex story about the gradual desiccation of the Red Planet. Perhaps most notable among findings from the ChemCam team is that all of the dust and fine soil contains small amounts of water.

Journal: Science

Study could help improve nuclear waste repositories

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are studying the movement of iodine-129 from spent nuclear fuel through a deep, clay-based geological repository. Understanding that process is crucial as countries worldwide consider underground clay formations for nuclear waste disposal.

Sandia Labs harnessing the sun's energy with tiny particles

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with partner institutions Georgia Tech, Bucknell University, King Saud University and the German Aerospace Center, are using a falling particle receiver to more efficiently convert the sun's energy to electricity in large-scale, concentrating solar power plants.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Researching new detectors for chemical, biological threats

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories scientists are building on decades of sensor work to invent tiny detectors that can sniff out everything from explosives and biotoxins to smuggled humans.

Shape-shifting alloys hold promise

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories researchers think shape-memory alloys could be used to improve safety in weapons components in a fire or other accident.

3-D Earth model developed at Sandia Labs more accurately pinpoints source of earthquakes, explosions

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Under the sponsorship of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory have partnered to develop a 3-D model of the Earth's mantle and crust called SALSA3D, or Sandia-Los Alamos 3D. The purpose of this model is to assist the US Air Force and the international Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, Austria, more accurately locate all types of explosions.

Sandia's Nancy Jackson named American Chemical Society Fellow

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

A Sandia National Laboratories chemical engineer whose team partners with chemistry labs around the world to ensure chemicals are handled safely and securely has been named a 2013 American Chemical Society Fellow.

Radiation detection to go

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A Sandia National Laboratories team completed acceptance testing on an enormous mobile scanner that makes smuggling radiological materials more difficult, the eighth such unit that Sandia has deployed worldwide.

Funder: NNSA's International Material Protection & Cooperation Office/Second Line of Defense

Low-temperature combustion enables cleaner, more efficient engines

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As demand climbs for more fuel-efficient vehicles, knowledge compiled over several years about diesel engines and a new strategy known as "low-temperature combustion" might soon lead auto manufacturers and consumers to broader use of cleaner diesel engines in the United States. The journal Progress in Energy and Combustion Science published a summary of recent research on diesel LTC in a review article titled "Conceptual models for partially premixed low-temperature diesel combustion."

Journal: Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

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