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November 16, 2009
Why huge bands of iron formed billions of years ago on Earth’s surface
Ironing out a longstanding geological puzzle
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — No one knows why massive formations of banded iron — some ultimately hundreds of kilometers long, like a sleeping giant’s suspenders — mysteriously began precipitating on Earth’s surface about [...]
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November 2, 2009
Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland [...]
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October 28, 2009
Sandia, others funded to sequence microbial genes for potential biofuels use
The 454 genome sequencing instruments (shown here at the Joint Genome Institute’s Walnut Creek, Calif., headquarters) are among the platforms to be utilized in the grasslands project. Photo courtesy of Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Click the image to [...]
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October 27, 2009
Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir
Sandia researcher solves problem of mixing liquids in tiny volumes
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.
Researchers currently use all types of processes to try and create mixing, with only “mixed” success. “In [...]
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October 21, 2009
Sandia, SRC win LES award for NINE program outreach
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ National Institute for Nano-Engineering (NINE) program, operated in conjunction with the Semiconductor Research Corp., has won a “Deal of Distinction” award from the Licensing Executives Society (U.S. and Canada), Inc. The award — a glass sculpture — [...]
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September 11, 2009
Sandia hopping robots to bolster troop capabilities
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and
PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by Sandia to develop the next generation of the Precision Urban Hopper, meaning Sandia‘s hopping robots may soon be in combat.
When fully operational, the four-wheeled [...]
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July 28, 2009
Sandia computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists Ron Minnich (foreground) and Don Rudish (background) have successfully run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines, an achievement that will allow cybersecurity researchers to more effectively observe behavior found in malicious botnets. [...]
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July 21, 2009
Purer water made possible by Sandia advance
A single atom makes a big difference
This bar graph shows the efficacy of removing wild-type bacteriophage from Rio Grande water using the all-aluminum coagulant (yellow), the gallium-aluminum coagulant (pink) and a germanium-aluminum coagulant (green). While the gallium-aluminum coagulant is most effective, the germanium-aluminum coagulant [...]
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July 20, 2009
Sandia wins five R&D 100 awards, plays role in sixth
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs — received five R&D 100 Awards this year, and played a role in a sixth.
R&D Magazine presents the awards each [...]
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June 22, 2009
Salt block unexpectedly stretches in Sandia experiments
Nanoscopic discovery may have implications for smog, asthma, cloud formation
That’s a stretch — Sandia-developed interfacial force microscope (IFM) tip unexpectedly creates a tendril from a block of salt as the tip retreats from the salt surface. The picture was taken by a transmission electron [...]
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June 9, 2009
‘Microswimmer’ and extremely tiny testing tool are big winners at Sandia student MEMS contest
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A “microswimmer” about the diameter of a human hair won the “novel design” category of the fifth annual Sandia National Laboratories-sponsored MEMS University Alliance Design Competition.
The microswimmer, which resembles a tiny fish, is designed to have [...]
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June 4, 2009
New type of membrane developed at Sandia may help make hydrogen hybrid cars a reality
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers may have developed the key to making hydrogen cars a commercial reality.
A major roadblock in the development of hydrogen cars has been the lack of a reliable hydrogen fuel cell [...]
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May 26, 2009
Sandia signs MOU with Japanese national institute
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have signed an agreement to conduct and share research of mutual interest.
Areas of immediate importance named in the memorandum of understanding include photovoltaics, nanoelectronics, nanomaterials and computational investigations [...]
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May 7, 2009
Sandia successfully completes hydrogen storage system for GM
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilizes a complex metal hydride material known as sodium alanate. The system, developed through a multiyear project funded by General Motors Corp., [...]
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April 30, 2009
Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations, study how those [...]
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April 7, 2009
Sandia research points way toward chameleon-like camouflage
‘Nano-camo’ for fashionistas and environmentalists
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Certain fish species blend with their environment by changing color.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have demonstrated that, in theory, they could cause synthetic materials to change color like fish do.
“Camouflage outfits that blend with a variety of environments without [...]
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March 25, 2009
We saw it coming: Asteroid monitored from outer space to ground impact
Sandians Mark Boslough and Dick Spalding watch it in real time
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Reports by scientists of meteorites striking Earth in the past have resembled police reports of so many muggings — the offenders came out of nowhere and then [...]
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March 19, 2009
Desalination of saline and brackish water becoming more affordable
Sandia water researcher Mike Hightower discusses intersection of freshwater and water treatment costs
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Treating brackish water for human consumption “can be done and be done affordably” here in New Mexico and other parts of the country, says Mike [...]
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March 12, 2009
Sandia receives DoD “trusted design” accreditation
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received accreditation to provide “trusted design” services for both unclassified and classified integrated circuits at its Albuquerque, N.M., facility.
Sandia’s Category 1A status was awarded through the Trusted IC Supplier Accreditation Program (www.dmea.osd.mil/trustedic.html) of the Department of Defense (DoD)’s [...]
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February 17, 2009
Huge pressures that melt diamond on planet Neptune determined by Sandia researchers
Technique may provide data for NIF nuclear fusion effort
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers [...]
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February 16, 2009
Sandia’s diamond-like films on board NASA satellite
IBEX looks at materials coming into solar system
Friedmann says the project took about one and a half months to complete and he says he was pleased with the outcome. Now the IBEX team is awaiting the results from the mission.
Eric Hertzberg, from Lockheed Martin Advanced [...]
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January 26, 2009
Sandia researchers win 2009 DOE INCITE award to fight disease
One million processor hours — how long is that?
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Mike Heroux and Laura Frink have been awarded a 2009 DOE INCITE multiyear award of one million processor hours on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Cray XT machines [...]
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January 13, 2009
More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, Sandia simulation shows
16 multicores perform barely as well as two for complex applications
The problem is, if each clerk doesn’t have access to the groceries, he or she doesn’t necessarily help the process. Worse, the clerks may get in each other’s way.
Similarly, it seems a [...]
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