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Nils Hansen Receives Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal
Post, June 24, 2024 • Nils Hansen, a physical chemist, has been chosen to receive the Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal and deliver the Jost memorial lectures, awarded by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities with guidance from the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry. This award is given to an internationally acclaimed physical chemist...
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Paul Miles honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Post, December 17, 2025 • For more than 30 years, Paul Miles has driven breakthroughs in engine-combustion research at Sandia National Laboratories; in recognition of his transformative contributions, he has been honored with the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Lifetime Achievement Award. Paul’s honor is the culmination of decades of conducting and supervising research projects funded...

Plasma-assisted conversion of siloxanes
Post, July 23, 2026 • Siloxanes (organosilicon compounds with silicon–oxygen (Si–O–Si) structures) have a broad range of technology applications, and understanding their chemical transformations is important both for industrial uses and for managing their disposal. Emma Litzer and Nils Hansen, together with colleagues Tanvir I. Farouk, Prangan Nandy, Raziya S. Chowdhury and Shamia Hoque from...

Real-Time Monitoring of CO2 Reduction
Post, May 11, 2026 • CRF researchers Nils Hansen and Emma Litzer together with colleagues Jawaher Mosrati, Thomas Bierkandt, Markus Köhler (all DLR Stuttgart), and Soufiane Bahou, Malte Wasgien, and Ali Abdel-Mageed (all Leibniz Institute for Catalysis), published a paper on "Real-Time Monitoring of CO2 Reduction on Supported Catalysts Using Near-Surface Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry...

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 National Laboratories Honors David Osborn’s Remarkable Career in Chemical Physics
Post, February 20, 2026 • Sandia National Laboratories recently hosted a one-day “Colloquium on Chemical Dynamics” to celebrate the extraordinary career of David Osborn, a distinguished physical chemist in the Combustion Research Facility. The event brought together 70 colleagues, collaborators, and friends—including several who traveled from Europe—to honor David’s scientific contributions, leadership, and lasting impact...

Sandians develop new Theory-Informed Kinetics Model
Post, November 25, 2025 • CRF researchers, along with colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, Southeast University Nanjing, Columbia University, Polytecnico Milano, Brown University, Baylor University, and the Technical University of Denmark, have developed a theory-informed kinetics model (ThInK) for the small molecule chemistry (H2 and C1 – C3 species) that forms...

Spray Combustion Consortium formed to improve engine design
Post, January 13, 2017 • by Michael Padilla Sandia National Laboratories has formed an industry-funded Spray Combustion Consortium to better understand fuel injection by developing modeling tools. Control of fuel sprays is key to the development of clean, affordable fuel-efficient engines. Intended for industry, software vendors and national laboratories, the consortium provides a direct path...

Theory of the tunneling ‘switch’
Post, August 27, 2026 • CRF researcher Timothy Zwier, together with Edwin Sibert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published a paper on "On the role of symmetry in quenching OH tunneling in 2,6-dimethylphenol" in "The Journal of Chemical Physics", providing more detailed theoretical descriptions of recent experiments that were interpreted to show that certain symmetry states...

Tim Zwier Awarded Miguel Catalán Medal
Post, September 17, 2025 • Tim Zwier, was awarded the Miguel Catalán Medal at the XVIII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics, July 21-24, 2025 in Vigo, Spain The medal, named for Prof. Miguel Catalán (1894-1957), honors a scientist for exceptional contributions and research record in the field of Atomic and Molecular Physics....

Transient Pulse-Response for Complex Systems
Post, May 6, 2026 • CRF researchers Nils Hansen, Emma Litzer, and David Osborn, together with colleagues Wenqi Zhou, Alexander R. Morey, Carey Chang and Coleman X. Kronawitter from UC Davis, published a paper on "Transient Pulse-Response Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Complex, Deactivating Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems: Application to Ethane Dehydroaromatization" in "The Journal of Physical...
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