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Announcing the continuation of the Spray Combustion Consortium
Post, June 8, 2018 • We invite you to join the next phase – transferring basic research into more predictive spray combustion CFD models thereby reducing development time and costs of future high-efficiency engines. Background The Spray Combustion Consortium (SCC) is an industry-funded activity aiming to improve engine combustion system design and optimization tools. Formed...
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CRF Researcher Recognized for Outstanding Mentorship from ORISE
Post, February 9, 2026 • Pieterjan Robbe received recognition as an outstanding mentor on the ORISE (Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education) website in celebration of National Mentoring Month (January 2026). Pieterjan was nominated by his former SCGSR grad student intern, Aleksei Sorokin, who summarized, “Dr. Pieterjan Robbe was my collaborating scientist and mentor...
Pieterjan looking off in the distance smiling

Improving understanding of advanced Light-Emitting Materials
Post, December 3, 2025 • Laura McCaslin, CRF postdocs Varun Rishi and Ali Abou Taka and Hrant Hratchian (UC Merced), published a paper in "The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters" on "Quantifying Design Principles for Light-Emitting Materials with Inverted Singlet–Triplet Energy Gaps." Most organic light-emitting materials lose efficiency because 75% of excitons are non-emissive triplets....

Judit Zádor awarded a Gauss Professorship
Post, February 4, 2026 • Judit Zádor (DMTS 8353) was awarded a Gauss Professorship by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in Lower Saxony. The Gauss Professorship, established on the 100th anniversary of Carl Friedrich Gauss’ death, offers outstanding scientists from outside Germany the opportunity to temporarily, and in a sense symbolically, occupy the chair of...

New engine optics to fuel future research
Post, November 29, 2017 • by Michael PadillaSandia team develops optical diagnostic that helps improve fuel economy while reducing emissionsA new optical device at Sandia National Laboratories that helps researchers image pollutants in combusting fuel sprays might lead to clearer skies in the future.An optical setup developed by researchers at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility and...
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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...

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...

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....

Watching molecules move
Post, September 29, 2017 • Velocity-Mapped Ion Imaging hits 30 years of research at SandiaBy Michael PadillaThirty years ago, David Chandler (8300) built an apparatus at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility to image the fragments of a molecule as it fell apart. At the time, David had no idea what a tremendous impact his research would...
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