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2024 European PVPMC Workshop announces call for abstracts
News Article, April 15, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ PV Performance and Modelling Collaborative has released a call for abstracts for the 2024 European PVPMC Workshop. The Technical University of Denmark, European Energy, and Sandia will host the event taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 21-22, 2024.  Workshop organizers are currently inviting session abstracts on the...
Long line of PV panels with sun setting behind them

2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
News Article, March 1, 2024 • The 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop will be held Sept. 16-20, 2024, at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, manufacturers, and researchers. Speakers and attendees will address the major topics for wind turbine blades, network with colleagues, and...

A SEAT at the global table: Environmental modeling software endorsed by the Ocean Decade
News Article, June 6, 2024 • Figure: Example of a SEAT output showing risk of potential changes in seabed dynamics (i.e., erosion or deposition) caused by modified wave and circulation forces induced by a WEC array interacting with local sediment bed composition. Sandia National Laboratories’ Spatial Environmental Assessment Toolkit has received an endorsement from the United...

Albuquerque mayor honors Sandia researcher who invests in his community
News Article, November 22, 2024 • Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller recently honored Sandia solar researcher Ken Armijo for his outstanding community service and volunteer impact in the local community. Armijo, along with several other volunteers and one volunteer organization, were recognized in late October during a ceremony for their diverse contributions and work to support those...

Algorithm could shorten quality testing, research in many industries by months
News Article, February 16, 2022 • Machine learning used to predict direction-dependent mechanical properties of metals A machine-learning algorithm developed at Sandia could provide auto manufacturing, aerospace and other industries a faster and more cost-efficient way to test bulk materials. The technique was published recently in the scientific journal Materials Science and Engineering: A. Production stoppages are...
Sandia researchers examine data generated by the machine-learning algorithm Material Data Driven Design.

American Chemical Society honors Sandia Labs scientist
News Article, July 2, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Dorina Sava Gallis has been honored by the American Chemical Society with a 2024 Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award, recognizing her excellence in the scientific enterprise demonstrating outstanding promise for contributions to her field. In her 14 years at Sandia, Sava Gallis has accumulated...
Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Dorina Sava Gallis was recently recognized by the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee with a Rising Star Award. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

Arctic Road Rally supported by Sandia
News Article, August 12, 2022 • The northernmost stretch of road in the US is about to become accessible for the first time to electric vehicles. From August 12 to 16, electric vehicle drivers will travel the Dalton Highway to and from the Arctic Ocean as part of the 2022 Arctic Road Rally. Sandia is supporting...
Dalton Highway in Summer, Alaska, USA

At Sandia Labs, a vision for navigating when GPS goes dark
News Article, October 25, 2022 • Words like “tough” or “rugged” are rarely associated with a quantum inertial sensor. The remarkable scientific instrument can measure motion a thousand times more accurately than the devices that help navigate today’s missiles, aircraft and drones. But its delicate, table-sized array of components that includes a complex laser and vacuum...
Sandia National Laboratories atomic physicist Jongmin Lee examines the sensor head of a cold-atom interferometer that could help vehicles stay on course where GPS is unavailable. (Photo by Bret Latter)

Atrisco Heritage Academy High School Solar + Storage Project
News Article, October 27, 2022 • Sandia recently partnered with Albuquerque Public Schools, NM Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the Department of Energy, and OE Solar for the opening of the district’s largest solar installation together with the state’s most extensive battery energy storage system. The $3.2 million solar + storage project at Atrisco Heritage...
Atrisco Heritage Ribbon Cutting

Babu Chalamala elected to National Academy of Engineering
News Article, May 8, 2024 • Since joining Sandia in 2015, Babu Chalamala has diligently worked to improve the safety and reliability of grid storage technologies. In the long run, his efforts support the large-scale integration of grid storage and the modernization of the electricity infrastructure. In the short term, they have earned him election to...

Back to the drawing board: Reinventing offshore wind turbines
News Article, August 16, 2022 • New Sandia software allows for design of innovative floating turbines Brandon Ennis, Sandia National Laboratories’ offshore wind technical lead, had a radically new idea for offshore wind turbines: instead of a tall, unwieldy tower with blades at the top, he imagined a towerless turbine with blades pulled taut like a...
An illustration of a vertical axis wind turbine

Bioenergy Cybersecurity Workshop presentations now available
News Article, November 21, 2023 • Developing and manufacturing biofuels involve automated, networked technologies at many stages of the process. Just as we secure our computers at work or home, how do we ensure that these technologies—and the biofuel production they support—are protected against hacking, malware, and cyberattacks? The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO),...
Algae in petri dishes for experiment

Bioscience research holds promise to help address environmental damage
News Article, February 28, 2024 • Palm kernel oil is used in almost 40% of beauty and food products worldwide, but the $12 billion industry is estimated to account for millions of acres lost to deforestation and 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Sandia bioscientist Di Liu recently demonstrated novel metabolic routes to produce lipids containing...
Waxen red-orange tinted seeds sit atop a rock.

Boosting battery research
News Article, June 18, 2024 • Most Americans don’t leave home without at least one lithium battery-powered device, and someday, the house itself may have a battery back-up. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working to make these large back-up batteries less expensive, hold more energy and be less prone to bursting into flame. One way...

Bruised and bleeding: New materials show where they’re hurt
News Article, March 18, 2024 • Cody Corbin spreads oxygen sensitive material inside two concentric cylinders at Sandia National Labs on Nov. 30, 2023. Once constructed the cylinder will protect contents by indicating if there has been tampering. Photo by Craig Fritz Every over-the-counter medication bottle sports a protective seal, usually a plastic wrap or foam...
Scientist Cody Corbin stands at a lab station, his body is separated from the material he is working with by glass, and his arms are protected by rubber sleeves.

Center of collaboration
News Article, April 28, 2022 • It may not be common knowledge within Sandia that the Labs are home to the Plasma Research Facility, but those who study plasma around the nation and the world are not only acutely aware, they are also coming in great numbers to perform experiments and work with the experts. “There are...
From left, Malik Tahiyat, from University of South Carolina, and Sandia scientists Dirk van den Bekerom, Erxiong Huang, and Jonathan Frank are all performing experiments in the Plasma Research Facility. Photo by Angie Zhang

Creating diamonds to shed light on the quantum world
News Article, September 26, 2022 • Diamonds are a scientist’s best friend. That much is at least true for physicist Andy Mounce, whose work with diamond quantum sensors at Sandia National Laboratories has earned him the DOE’s Early Career Research Award. As a scientist in Sandia’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, he specializes in making microscopic sensors...
Sandia National Laboratories’ Andy Mounce makes microscopic sensors to try to understand quantum materials at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. He is one of four employees to earn DOE’s Early Career Research Award. (Photo by Bret Latter

Creating the self-healing grid of the future
News Article, March 14, 2024 • Michael Ropp, Electrical Engineer Self-healing electrical grids: It may sound like a concept from science fiction, with tiny robots or some sentient tech crawling around fixing power lines, but in a reality not far from fiction a team of researchers is bringing this idea to life. What’s not hard to...
Michael Ropp poses for a photo at Sandia’s Distributed Energy Technology Lab (DETL) on Oct. 13, 2023. His team is working on ways for an energy microgrids to self-heal using computer algorithms. Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Labs

Detecting nuclear materials using light
News Article, November 22, 2023 • Sandia partners with former employee to get tech on the market Sandia National Laboratories researcher Patrick Feng, left, and Former Sandian Joey Carlson, right, hold Organic Glass Scintillators they helped create to detect radioactive materials. (Photo by Randy Wong) LIVERMORE, Calif. — Blueshift Optics, owned by former Sandia employee Joey...
Two researchers hold up a scintillator, a blue disk

eGrid 2024 call for papers now open
News Article, May 6, 2024 • The 9th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2024) will be held on November 19-21, 2024, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. This international workshop — sponsored by IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) and organized by Sandia National Laboratories and University...

eGrid 2024 Workshop registration now open
News Article, October 2, 2024 • The 9th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2024) will be held November 19–21, 2024, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. This international workshop, sponsored by IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) and organized by Sandia National Laboratories, will provide a forum...

Electric vehicle battery safety takes the front seat
News Article, April 27, 2023 • A Sandia-led team is working to test and predict the safety of advanced batteries, including solid-state and lithium-metal, while they are still under development. The goal is to create more affordable, convenient, efficient, and resilient electric vehicle batteries. The team, which includes UL Research Institutes, the University of Maryland and...
Two researchers stand in a lab, their faces lit by the screen and equipment in front of them

Electrical circuits encased in fluid may reshape data-center design
News Article, June 26, 2024 • Keeping electrical circuits dry is generally considered a vital safety measure, but at Sandia National Laboratories’ high-performance computing center, technicians adjust live circuits submerged in liquid. “It’s pretty cool — and a little unusual — to walk into a computing lab and see electrical hardware submerged in fluid,” said Sandia...
A man with a face shield, apron, and gloves works on a computer server submerged in liquid
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