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Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Technologies

Page • Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Technologies Increasing efficiency and reducing the carbon intensity of manufacturing technologies and industrial processes Through our advanced manufacturing and industrial technologies programs, Sandia supplies innovative technology, development, and analysis to support manufacturing and industrial efficiency. Sandia studies and develops advanced materials and technologies to help manufacturers...

Advanced Manufacturing for Energy Technologies

Page • Materials science, experts, and facilities to support and strengthen the manufacturing sector. Sandia’s advanced manufacturing program applies our manufacturing expertise and capabilities for energy technology manufacturing. Our foundational and applied R&D can solve a variety of emerging national problems facing the manufacturing sector. After more than seventy years of delivering...

Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML)

Facility • The Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML) is one of seven laboratories that comprise Sandia’s Materials Science and Engineering Center. The AML has expertise in the development of materials and coatings for marine renewable energy and provides consultation and solutions for industry needs. About the Facility This unique Sandia facility is located on...

Advanced Microgrids

Page • Sandia’s microgrid research and development addresses real-time controls, operational optimization, power electronics, protection standards, and community resilience methods and tools. Microgrid Architectures A microgrid is a small-scale version of an interconnected electric grid. Microgrids can locally mange the operation of distributed energy resources, such a photovoltaics (PV), wind, electric vehicles,...

Advanced Power Electronic Conversion Systems (APEX) Laboratory

Facility • The Advanced Power Electronic Conversion Systems (APEX) Laboratory supports the development of advanced power conversion topologies and intelligent control strategies. Research in the APEX laboratory focuses on robust and fault-tolerant conversion systems for utility-scale energy storage. Applications of interest range from individual cell-level battery interfaces to cascaded and modular multilevel...

Advanced Reactor Safeguards and Security

Page • The Advanced Reactor Safeguards and Security (ARSS) program area in the Department of Energy, Nuclear Energy (DOE NE) seeks to support domestic deployment of advanced nuclear reactors by mitigating safeguards and security roadblocks. The program applies laboratory research and development to address near-term challenges advanced reactor vendors face in meeting...

Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls

Page • Bode plot of the hydrodynamic admittance of the FOSWEC v2 aft flap. Click the diagram to open full-size image in a new tab. Numerous studies have shown that advanced control of a wave energy converter (WEC) power take off (PTO) can provide significant increases (on the order of 200-300%) in WEC energy...

Alan Hsieh

Staff Page • CFD and Aeronautical Researcher. Biography Dr. Alan Hsieh is a CFD and Aeronautical Researcher in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. His current research interests include the verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification of wind farm computational models, atmospheric boundary layer simulations of different...

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...

Alex Bates

Staff Page • Mechanical Engineer. Biography Alex Bates is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Power Sources Technology Group at Sandia National Laboratories. Alex has been working in the energy storage field for 15 years including direct work on fuel cells, flow batteries, Li-ion batteries, and solid-state batteries. His current work...

Algae scrubbing for waterway remediation and biofuel production

News Article, December 3, 2024 • Photo caption: Principal Investigator Ryan Davis and team have advanced an algae flow-way system that reclaims major nutrients, metals, and organic and inorganic carbon from surface waters. Sandia researchers are advancing algae flow-way systems that screen out pollutants from the environment. Designed to simultaneously remediate water and grow algae for...
A researcher in a lab coat sits beside a flow way containing algae

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.

Alicia Keow

Staff Page • Postdoctoral Appointee. Biography Alicia Keow is a postdoctoral appointee in the Water Power Technologies Program at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research focuses on the use of control co-design methodologies to develop next generation Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) systems. Alicia received her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Wichita State University in...

Amalie Frischknecht

Staff Page • Physicist. Biography Amalie L. Frischknecht is a Principle Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and a staff scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), a DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center and user facility at Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs. She received her PhD in Physics from...

Amanda Peretti

Staff Page • Laboratory Technologist. Research Interests Ceramics ProcessingNanomaterialsXRD analysisTissue processing, RNA extraction Education M.Sc. in Biomedical Science, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM), 2015M.Sc. in Biology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, NM), 2012B.Sc. in Biology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, NM), 2008 Publications

Amanda Wachtel

Staff Page • Principal Member of Technical Staff. Biography Amanda Wachtel is a principal member of technical staff in the Mathematical Analysis and Decision Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Her primary research areas include resilience, system-of-systems modeling and simulation, and developing analytical capabilities for DoD, DOE, defense energy, and community applications. She...

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)

Analytics

Page • QuESt is a Python-based, open source energy storage software suite developed by Sandia. Analytics is an important component of Sandia’s energy storage research. We perform research that develops and analyzes storage-based solutions to a variety of technical challenges for the electrical grid such as improving grid reliability and resilience and...

Andrea Ambrosini

Staff Page • R&D S&E, Chemistry. Biography Since 2018, Andrea Ambrosini has been a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Concentrating Solar Technologies department. Andrea’s research involves the synthesis, characterization, and development of functional oxide materials for renewable energy applications, particularly concentrating solar power and solar-thermal chemistry. She has over 50...

Andrea Mammoli

Staff Page • Principal Member of Technical Staff. Biography Andrea Mammoli is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration program. Andrea was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory between 1995 and 1997 and joined the University of New Mexico’s Department of Mechanical Engineering...

Andrew Kurzawski

Staff Page • Mechanical Engineer. Research Interests Fire Modeling, Heat Transfer, Inverse Problems, Bayesian Statistics, Wildland Fire, Fire Forensics, Parallel Programming, Machine Learning Education Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas (Austin,TX), 2017M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas (Austin, TX), 2013B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas (AustinTX), 2011...

Ansel Blumenthal

Staff Page • R&D, S&E Mechanical Engineer . Biography Ansel Blumenthal is a mechanical engineer and member of the technical staff in the Concentrating Solar Power program at Sandia National Laboratories. Ansel’s research includes the refurbishment of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility heliostat field with new heliostat dual axis controller hardware and...

Anthony Martino

Staff Page • Manager. Biography Anthony Martino manages the Photovoltaics (PV) and Materials Technology Department at Sandia National Laboratories. The Department’s Applied Research and Development (R&D) programs focus on performance characterization and models, reliability, degradation, and new materials and fabrication technologies for PV modules and systems. Materials R&D is leading to new PV...

Applied Biosciences Lab (ABL)

Facility • Bioscience is one of Sandia's research foundations, an area considered key to the success of the Lab's national security programs. In the Applied Bioscience Laboratory (ABL) at Sandia California, the bioscience research focus is two-pronged: advancing the bioeconomy and transforming the nation’s biopreparedness. Learn more and take a virtual tour...
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Approach and Methodology

Page • Sandia’s approach and methodology to Space Nuclear Launch Safety is centered around the modeling of detailed simulations, combined with Monte Carlo sequence codes, to create a probabilistic risk analysis. This methodology combination aids in the identification and mitigation of the main sources of risk to create a basis for a successful...
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