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Sandia Celebrates Women in Research
Post, March 9, 2021 • Sandia researcher shares her story At a March 2021 Sandia Labs celebration of Women’s History Month, Dr. Jacqueline (Jackie) Chen—senior scientist in the chemistry, combustion, and materials science division at Sandia’s Livermore, California site—shares her success stories and career path to inspire other women in research. Jackie, honored in 2020...
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Sandia chemists discover new pathway in mechanism of soot formation
Post, December 9, 2015 • By Michael Padilla Chemists at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility have discovered a new mechanism leading to soot formation, providing new facts to make models of soot formation more predictive, furthering DOE’s goal of reducing soot formation in practical combustion devices. “This work is important because it shows how the process...
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Sandia debuts the Livermore Valley Open Campus website
Post, May 22, 2012 • Through an exciting partnership between two Department of Energy national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) was recently established as a space for open, collaborative work in areas such as bioscience, cyber security, detection technologies, and hydrogen applications. The newly-opened LVOC is a 110-acre campus that brings...

Sandia develops autoignition model designed for efficient, accurate engine simulations
Post, May 13, 2016 • About the photo: Sandia National Laboratories postdoctoral researcher Layal Hakim, center, working with Joe Oefelein, left, and Guilhem Lacaze, designed and implemented an optimized chemical model that describes autoignition of a diesel fuel surrogate. By Michael Padilla Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a model for how diesel engines...
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Sandia Engaged in Upcoming Combustion Symposium and Workshops
Post, April 29, 2014 • A number of CRF staff members are active in organizing the 35th International Symposium on Combustion. This biennial event, which brings together more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and others from around the world to explore the latest developments in combustion science, will be held from August 3–8, 2014, at the...

Sandia experts lead technical investigation of hydrogen release incident
Post, October 12, 2012 • Hydrogen experts at Sandia/California were tapped for their technical expertise through a first-ever contract with the state of California to investigate a May 4 hydrogen release at the Bay Area’s Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) hydrogen fueling station in Emeryville, CA. Based on the outcome of that investigation, on...
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Sandia hosts Chinese delegation
Post, May 3, 2017 • by Michael Padilla Opening doors for innovation and entrepreneurships opportunities is key for Sandia/California.  As part of that commitment, Sandia/California hosted a delegation of municipal leaders from Luzhou, China, on Thursday, April 20. Luzhou, located in the Sichuan Province of China, is known as the wine city of China.  “Partnering with...

Sandia Hosts Friends and Family Day
Post, June 20, 2012 • Last month, Sandia/California vice president Rick Stulen hosted a Family and Friends Day so that researchers could share their work and achievements with those close to them. Over 1,100 visitors participated. Several CRF staff members were on hand to greet them, including researcher Mark Musculus, who kindly toured visitors through...

Sandia Hosts Visitors from Japanese Automotive Industry
Post, December 23, 2013 • On Nov. 7 and 8, Sandia hosted visiting fuel cell electric vehicle engineers from the Japanese automotive industry. On the first day of the visit, engineers from the Nissan Technical Center North America learned more about Sandia’s work in fueling research and the Center for Infrastructure Research and Integration (CIRI)....
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Sandia influences ocean research with hybrid hydrogen fuel cell vessel design
Post, January 31, 2022 • FUEL CELL FUTURE — An Engineering model of a new Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel that incorporates hydrogen fuel cells with a liquid hydrogen tank — labelled LH2. The vessel was conceived by Sandia, Glosten and Scripps, with the hydrogen fuel cell providing power for propulsion and energy for...

Sandia Presented at the 14th Biennial Conference on Transportation Energy and Policy
Post, September 17, 2013 • Sandia participated in the 14th Biennial Conference on Transportation Energy and Policy on August 6–9 in Pacific Grove, California. This conference is organized under the auspices of the Alternative Fuels Committee of the U.S. Transportation Research Board and is hosted by the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. This...

Sandia Signs Letter of Understanding with H2USA
Post, November 7, 2013 • Sandia National Laboratories recently signed a Letter of Understanding with H2USA, a new public-private partnership launched by DOE to focus on advancing hydrogen infrastructure to support more transportation energy options for U.S. consumers, including fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). The partnership brings together automakers, government agencies, gas suppliers, and the...
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Sandia to demonstrate Hydrogen Risk Assessment Models toolkit prototype
Post, June 18, 2014 • With recent hydrogen fuel cell vehicle market acceleration, cities and neighborhoods where these cars are being sold exhibit a growing need to advance hydrogen fueling system deployments. Understanding and assessing hydrogen-fueling and -storage system risks is a challenging proposition because the necessary scientific information is diffuse and found only in...
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Sandia, Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers Partner on Hydrogen Storage System for Forklifts
Post, May 1, 2014 • Zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell systems soon could be powering the forklifts used in warehouses and other industrial settings at lower costs and with faster refueling times than ever before, courtesy of a partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers (HHC). The goal of the project is to design...
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Sandia’s Exascale Computing Effort Expected to Curtail Effects of System Faults
Post, March 19, 2014 • Computing power today is more potent than ever before. Or is it? In many applications, yes, but when it comes to sophisticated, detailed modeling of the Earth’s climate and other pressing global challenges, an apt analogy to describe our computational resources might be the use of an abacus to track...
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Sandia’s Summer Institute
Post, August 26, 2011 • Technology and Policy Tools for Energy in an Uncertain World On August 8, Sandia launched a new cross-discipline week-long research program for top graduate students from the nation’s premier universities. At the Sandia Summer Institute (SSI), twenty-one enthusiastic graduate students met to collaborate in small teams, working side-by-side with leading...
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Sandia/AIST Meeting Highlights Energy Research Collaboration between U.S. and Japan
Post, December 12, 2013 • As part of a broader effort to coordinate clean-energy research across the Pacific Ocean, Sandia National Laboratories is hosting a meeting with the Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) on December 13, 2013. Attendees from AIST and the U.S. national labs will be joined by representatives...
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Sandia/CA receives joint awards with LLNL for environmental stewardship
Post, July 24, 2012 • This summer, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the Pollution Prevention (P2) awards, given to national laboratories and sites for innovative efforts in environmental stewardship. Sandia/CA received recognition for two of our efforts that were conducted jointly with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The first award went to the...

Sandia/CRF Receive R&D100 Award for Cooler technology
Post, August 14, 2012 • Sandia was a recipient of the prestigious R&D100 award for work on the Sandia Cooler, a technology developed by Jeff Koplow at the CRF. The Cooler, which was featured in an earlier CRF story, can significantly reduce the energy needed to cool processor chips in data centers and large-scale computing...

Sandia/CRF Receive R&D100 Award for Cooler technology
Post, August 14, 2012 • Sandia was a recipient of the prestigious R&D100 award for work on the Sandia Cooler, a technology developed by Jeff Koplow at the CRF. The Cooler, which was featured in an earlier CRF story, can significantly reduce the energy needed to cool processor chips in data centers and large-scale computing...

Scrambling molecules with light
Post, August 23, 2011 • Isotopic labeling of chemical compounds is one of the most powerful techniques for understanding how chemical reactions proceed. Adding an extra neutron to an atom’s nucleus [changing hydrogen (H) into deuterium (D) for example] doesn’t usually change chemistry, but the extra mass of the heavier isotope allows scientists to track...

September 2014 Visitor Departures
Post, November 25, 2014 • WDTS departure Christopher Nilsen 6/23/2014-9/4/2014 Chuck Mueller Chuck Mueller, left, and WDTS intern Christopher Nilsen. Christopher Nilsen was one of the many of the students and faculty visiting the CRF under the DOE Office of Science Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) program. Damir Valiev 10/7/2013 – 9/1/2014 Jackie...
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