Nanomaterials researcher wins mid-career research award
Former postdoctoral student Kaifu Bian also honored for nanowire work MATERIALS MAVEN — Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Hongyou Fan received the Materials Research Society’s...
View ArticleThwarting oil-pipeline corrosion by identifying nanoscale villains
RUST NEVER SLEEPS — Katherine Jungjohann, principal investigator and lead microscopist for a study that pinpointed a major cause of corrosion in pipelines, looks for corrosion with a new Transmission...
View ArticleSeeing infrared
Sandia’s nanoantennas help detectors see more heat, less noise NANO LOADING — Optical engineer Michael Goldflam sets up equipment to load and characterize a new nanoantenna-enabled detector. Sandia...
View Article‘Switching on’ iron in clay minerals
Researchers identify chemical mechanism that shows how iron in soils can immobilize arsenic UNDERSTANDING IRON — Anastasia Ilgen run experiments in an anaerobic glovebox. (Photo by Randy Montoya)...
View ArticleAdvanced microscopy reveals unusual DNA structure
Pushing technology’s limits to observe fundamental feature of stretched DNA SEEING STRETCHED DNA — Sandia optical scientist Adam Backer helped develop an advanced microscopy technique that revealed...
View ArticleA material benefit to society
Sandia scientist elected 2019 AAAS fellow ADVANCED SCIENCE — Tina Nenoff, a materials and senior scientist at Sandia, has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of...
View ArticleInnovate New Mexico features two Sandia inventors
The seventh annual Innovate New Mexico Technology Showcase gave researchers from institutions across the state the opportunity to pitch technologies to industry representatives and investors. Sandia...
View ArticleSandia takes home six 2020 R&D 100 Awards
Physicists keep an eye on Nobel prizes; mathematicians, the Fields Medal. Inventors of useful programs and devices get their own moments of recognition when the R&D 100 Awards are announced each...
View ArticleWorld’s smallest, best acoustic amplifier emerges from 50-year-old hypothesis
Acousto-electric devices reveal new road to miniaturizing wireless tech AMPED UP — Scientists Matt Eichenfield, left, and Lisa Hackett led the Sandia team that created the world’s smallest and best...
View Article“I’m melting, melting” — coal waste diminished by harmless citric acid
FROM THE ASH — Sandia researcher Guangping Xu puts coal ash into a citric acid mixture, to be fed into a reactor under supercritical CO2 conditions (about 70 times atmospheric pressure) to extract...
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