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Feb 22 | News
Welding uses heat to join pieces of metal in everything from circuits to skyscrapers. But Rice Univ. researchers have found a way to beat the heat on the nanoscale. The group discovered that gold wires between three-billionths and 10-billionths of a meter wide weld themselves together quite nicely—without heat.
12/22/2009 | News
Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The tiny cells could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger if they were fastened to flexible substrates molded around unusual shapes, such as clothing.
10/29/2009 | News
Sandia researchers and others at the Univ. of New Mexico (UNM), the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Novozymes, and North Carolina State Univ.’s Center for Integrated Fungal Research (NCSU-CIFR) have received a DNA sequencing award from the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) to study microbial genes in arid grasslands. The research combines interests in fundamental microbial ecology with DOE goals to exploit microbes in the production of biofuels.
10/28/2009 | News
Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces. In the new method of mixing, when one turns on a particular kind of magnetic field, the magnetic particles suspended in the fluid form chains like strings of pearls. The chains start swirling around and that’s what does the mixing. The particles are then removed magnetically, leaving a nice mixed-up liquid.
9/29/2009 | Featured Articles
Cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) between private companies and government research labs allow partners to optimize their resources and share technical expertise in a protected enivironment.
9/3/2009 | News
This sort of extreme temperature is necessary for a Univ.
of Nevada researcher who is trying to mimic what happens to matter in accretion
disks around black holes. The massive x-ray source at Sandia National Labs
creates non-equilibrium plasmas at high temperatures and equally astonishing
pressures. In comparison, the sun burns at “only” about 10,000°F.
8/5/2009 | Videos
A transparent coating that is not just impermeable to water, but actually makes it bounce off a surface to help prevent corrosion, protect electronic and antiquities, or provide a new, more efficient surface to collect pure water.
7/22/2009 | News
By substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life superior to products currently on the market.
6/12/2009 | News
Instead of a knife and a welding torch, carbon “pumbers” from two universities and a national lab employed an electron microscope and a scanning probe generating 2000°C to modify a graphene sheet to accept installations of carbon nanotubes and fullerenes.
9/26/2008 | RD 100 Awards
To achieve high accuracy at mesoscale, the Silicon Micromachined Dimensional Calibration Artifact for Mesoscale Measurement Machines, produced by Sandia National Laboratories, feature a nanometrically sharp yet microscopically long edge that can be located using a tactile probe on high-accuracy coordinate measuring machines. Chrome-on-glass grid artifacts can only be calibrated optically because they are essentially 2-D.