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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

Ready-to-sign license speeds up Sandia tech transfer

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is building a portfolio of intellectual property that can be licensed by businesses in as little as an hour.

Van Allen Probes pinpoint driver of speeding electrons

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers believe they have solved a lingering mystery about how electrons within Earth's radiation belt can suddenly become energetic enough to kill orbiting satellites. Thanks to data gathered from an intrepid pair of NASA probes roaming the harsh space environment within the Van Allen radiation belts, scientists have identified an internal electron accelerator operating within the belts.

Journal: Science

Hurricane season: Predicting in advance what could happen

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

The Department of Homeland Security's National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center, jointly housed at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, studies how hurricanes and other disasters disrupt critical infrastructure, such as roads, electricity and water systems.

Wildfires may contribute more to global warming than previously predicted

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wildfires produce a witch's brew of carbon-containing particles, as anyone downwind of a forest fire can attest. But measurements taken during the 2011 Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos National Laboratory show that the actual carbon-containing particles emitted by fires are very different than those used in current computer models, providing the potential for inaccuracy in current climate-modeling results.

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

SWiFT commissioned to study wind farm optimization

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University commissioned the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility today at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The SWiFT is the first public facility of its kind to use multiple wind turbines to measure how wind turbines interact with one another in a wind farm.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

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