Sandia–Univ. of Rochester Win Funding to Demonstrate Fuel Magnetization and Laser Heating Tools for Low-Cost Fusion Energy July 7, 2015 4:51 pm Sandia and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) at the University of Rochester will investigate the compression and heating of... View Article
Sandia’s Z Machine Helps Solve Saturn’s Two-Billion-Year Age Gap July 7, 2015 4:18 pm Planets tend to cool as they get older, but Saturn is hotter than astrophysicists say it should be without some... View Article
Sandia Computational Mathematician Receives DOE’s EO Lawrence Award July 7, 2015 3:56 pm Pavel Bochev (in Sandia’s Computational Mathematics Dept.) has received an EO Lawrence Award for his pioneering theoretical and practical advances... View Article
Cummins Executives Visit Combustion Research Facility July 7, 2015 3:33 pm Tom Linebarger, Cummins Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, and John Wall, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, visited Sandia’s Combustion... View Article
Sandia Optical Diagnostics Researcher Wins DOE Early Career Award July 1, 2015 9:58 pm Sandia Combustion Research Facility (CRF) scientist Christopher Kliewer (in Sandia’s Combustion Chemistry Dept.) won a DOE Office of Science (SC)... View Article
Expansion of DOE-DOT Tight Oil Research Work July 1, 2015 6:04 pm The Departments of Energy and Transportation commissioned a technical team through Sandia to examine the properties of tight crude oils... View Article
Small Electric Voltage Alters Conductivity in Key Materials July 1, 2015 5:41 pm Using only a 9-volt battery at room temperature, a team led by Sandia researcher Jon Ihlefeld (in Sandia’s Electronic, Optical,... View Article
Sandia’s Frontier Observatory for Research In Geothermal Energy (FORGE) Phase 1 Proposals Were Both Successful July 1, 2015 5:24 pm The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (DOE-EERE’s) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) defines FORGE’s mission as... View Article
Record of Decision for Mars 2020 Mission July 1, 2015 4:37 pm NASA issued a record of decision (ROD) to use a nuclear battery (a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator) on the next... View Article
Sandia Researchers Are First to Measure Thermoelectric Behavior of a Nanoporous Metal-Organic Framework July 1, 2015 4:27 pm Thermoelectric devices convert heat to electricity and have no moving parts, making them extremely attractive for cooling and energy harvesting... View Article