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Sandia switches to hydrogen weather balloons
News Article, May 24, 2023 • Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Sandia National Laboratories researchers ensure the collection of important weather and climate data. By switching the gas used in their weather balloons, they have reduced their metaphorical footprint on the fragile Arctic ecosystem. More than three years ago, the Sandia-operated atmospheric measurement...
A hydrogen-filled weather balloon launches automatically from a Department of Energy atmospheric measurement facility in Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. About three years ago, Sandia National Laboratories switched from launching helium-filled balloons to launching hydrogen-filled balloons to reduce costs and carbon emissions. (Photo by Ben Bishop)

Sandia to study snow-related energy losses using Morgan Solar’s sensor
News Article, August 11, 2023 • Photovoltaic researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are partnering with tech-company Morgan Solar to identify and quantify the amount of energy lost when a solar PV plant is covered in snow. Scientists will evaluate Morgan’s I IOT sensor, the IV DAQ, which captures continuous in situ data and can operate in...

Sandia wins 5 R&D 100 awards and a silver specialty award
News Article, September 19, 2022 • Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, Sandia National Laboratories researchers captured four R&D 100 Awards this year and supported a fifth. One entry also won the R&D 100’s Special Recognition Market Disrupter Silver Award. R&D World Magazine — formerly R&D Magazine — presents the awards...
A researcher from Sandia holds a device

Sandia-led team develops an end-to-end Generative AI platform to automate and protect confidential communications 
News Article, September 30, 2025 • A Sandia-led team, in partnership with Idaho National Laboratory, recently made a significant step toward secure and efficient inter-organizational collaboration using advanced generative AI technologies.   Large Language Models (LLMs) are part of artificial intelligence systems that rely on massive datasets to understand and generate human language. LLMs use patterns...

Sandia’s Grid Modernization team for PR100 report receives Secretary’s Honor Award
News Article, March 28, 2024 • A multi-laboratory research team, including members from Sandia’s Grid Modernization group, received a 2023 Secretary’s Honor Award for its contributions to the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100).The prestigious award recognizes the Department of Energy’s employees and contractors who make positive, lasting impacts on...

Sandians visit Puerto Rico to participate in grid resilience and distributed energy conversations in wake of Hurricane Fiona
News Article, November 9, 2022 • Sandians Summer Ferreira, Matt Lave, and Olga Hart recently visited San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they participated in an Advisory Group Meeting associated with the multi-National-Lab PR100 project to discuss lessons learned related to grid resilience and distributed energy in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. Meeting participants included community leaders,...

Small-business success
News Article, December 7, 2022 • The Saturday after Thanksgiving, known as Small Business Saturday, offers an opportunity every year to celebrate the jobs, helpful products and services, and economic wealth that small businesses bring to our communities. They must learn how to mitigate risk and quickly adapt to change — as witnessed now more than ever...
INNOVATION CELEBRATION — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program held the first Innovation Celebration since the onset of COVID-19 at Santa Fe Brewing in Santa Fe on Sept. 29. NMSBA recognized the New Mexico small businesses and laboratory principal investigators from projects in 2020 and 2021. (Photo by Lucas Reigelsperger, Los Alamos)

Society of Women Engineers bestows awards on 3 Sandia staff, including its highest honor
News Article, October 24, 2022 • The Society of Women Engineers has bestowed awards on three Sandia National Laboratories employees. Senior scientist Tina Nenoff received the society’s highest honor, the Achievement Award, chemical engineer Yuliya Preger received a Rising Technical Contributor Award and researcher Nedra Bonal received a Patent Recognition Award. The society bestows awards annually...
Yuliya tests batteries in her lab to understand how their performance degrades under different conditions.

Sodium-ion battery safety research: Advancing the next generation of energy storage technology
News Article, June 25, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Battery Abuse Testing Lab, the Department of Energy’s core facility for battery safety, is investigating the safety of sodium-ion battery technology. Due to sodium’s abundance and an electrochemistry that resembles lithium-ion batteries in some ways, sodium-ion batteries are being considered for grid storage and automotive applications. The...

Stunning discovery: Metals can heal themselves
News Article, August 8, 2023 • Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it could usher in an engineering revolution — one in which self-healing engines, bridges and airplanes...
A researcher examines data on a large screen while standing among laboratory equipment lit with red light.

Surf’s up! Free webinar on wave energy
News Article, March 20, 2024 • Join our free webinar on March 26 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time with Sandia National Laboratories’ Ryan Coe, Giorgio Bacelli, Dominic Forbush and Tim Donnelly. They will share and discuss recent results from WEC co-design testing on the “WaveBot” device at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering...

Technology Commercialization Fund Voucher Call is now open
News Article, June 17, 2024 • Do you know an entrepreneur, innovator, or community partner looking for technical assistance to bring their technology to market? Consider sharing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Open Voucher Call. The new $2.1 million opportunity will make $100,000 vouchers available to innovators, entrepreneurs,...
Image of five scientists. In the middle, one woman holds up a gear, looking through it. Image also includes the Office of Technology Transitions logo and the American-Made logo.

Two Sandia researchers elected to National Academy of Engineering
News Article, April 15, 2024 • Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala recognized for contributions to engineering Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers, Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala, have been elected as members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. They are among the 114 new members and 21 international members to be inducted as the class of 2024....

Two Sandians honored with 2024 Women in Tech Award
News Article, June 27, 2024 • Two Sandia National Laboratories employees have been honored with the 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Award from the New Mexico Technology Council. The award recognizes remarkable women who drive innovation and excellence in their tech field and inspire and empower others to pursue careers in the tech industry. Mary Monson If...
Mary Monson, senior manager of Technology Partnerships and Business Development at Sandia National Laboratories, accepts an award from the New Mexico Technology Council on March 13 for her immense impact on tech transfer at Sandia. (Photo by DeAnna Vincent)

Ultrafast beam-steering breakthrough at Sandia Labs
News Article, March 28, 2023 •  In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources. This ability to control light using a semiconductor device could allow low-power, relatively inexpensive sources like LEDs...
Two researchers stand adjacent to optical equipment emitting red light in a lab

Using X-ray science to hit hydrogen storage targets
News Article, November 7, 2023 • Using soft X-ray techniques available through Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), a Sandia team including Mark Allendorf and Farid El Gabaly with collaborators from the Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC) are probing the chemistry of promising hydrogen storage materials to understand how they absorb and release hydrogen. The...

Webinar to provide overview of TCF Open Voucher Call application process
News Article, July 3, 2024 • Interested in learning more about the new Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Open Voucher Call from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Technology Transitions? An informational webinar on July 18 at 2 p.m. ET will share eligibility, submission requirements, and more. During the webinar, program administrators will provide an...
Image of five scientists. In the middle, one woman holds up a gear, looking through it. Image also includes the Office of Technology Transitions logo and the American-Made logo.

What do you do with a shrunken laser?
News Article, August 9, 2023 • The laser is so small you need a microscope to see it properly. But it’s not just the size that scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are excited about. The buzz is that the laser can now be combined with other microscale optical devices to make self-driving cars safer, data centers...
Ashok Kodigala holds a gold plated wafer filled with thousands of minute lasers made at Sandia National Laboratories MESA facility.
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