Sandia National Laboratories
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Supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton Cycle turbines promise giant leap
— 5 Mar 2011 13:09 | TechnologySandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion…
LAMMPS supercomputer code developer earns special recognition
— 4 Mar 2011 15:45 | TechnologySandia National Laboratories researcher Steve Plimpton, who led development of a widely used computer code that models how materials behave, has been invited to present a keynote lecture…
Sandia effort images the sea monster of nuclear fusion: The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
— 13 Nov 2010 09:35 | TechnologyA new X-ray imaging capability has taken pictures of a critical instability at the heart of Sandia's huge Z accelerator. The effort may help remove a major impediment in the worldwide,…
Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, Sandia simulations show
— 13 Oct 2010 16:12 | TechnologyIt may seem obvious that dunking relatively spherical objects in a sauce - blueberries in melted chocolate, say - will result in an array of completely encapsulated berries…
Rain or shine, Sandia researchers find new ways to forecast large photovoltaic power plant output
— 28 Sep 2010 13:21 | TechnologySandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a new system to monitor how clouds affect large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants. By observing cloud shape, size and…
Sandia National Laboratories helping to safeguard world's dangerous biological agents
— 4 Sep 2010 10:24 | HealthSafeguarding the world's most dangerous biological agents has been a top priority for a dedicated group of Sandia scientists for more than a decade, and now, this team is training laboratory…
LEDs promise brighter future, not necessarily greener
— 25 Aug 2010 10:44 | TechnologySolid-state lighting pioneers long have held that replacing the inefficient Edison light bulb with more efficient solid-state light-emitting devices (LEDs) would lower electrical usage…
Kinked nanopores slow DNA passage for easier sequencing
— 31 Jul 2010 09:11 | TechnologyIn an innovation critical to improved DNA sequencing, a markedly slower transmission of DNA through nanopores has been achieved by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researchers…
Groundbreaking Sandia study ties climate uncertainties to economies of US states
— 23 Jul 2010 10:56 | EnvironmentA climate-change study at Sandia National Laboratories that models the near-term effects of declining rainfall in each of the 48 U.S. continental states makes clear the economic toll…
Sandia Labs reports first monolithic terahertz solid-state transceiver
— 30 Jun 2010 12:12 | TechnologySandia National Laboratories researchers have taken the first steps toward reducing the size and enhancing the functionality of devices in the terahertz (THz) frequency spectrum…