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Paul Miles honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

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 by the VTO, focusing on…

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Improving understanding of advanced Light-Emitting Materials

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. So-called INVEST materials are different—they…

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David Chandler Awarded Herschbach Medal

December 3, 2025

David W. Chandler was awarded the Dudley Herschbach Medal at the XXIX Dynamics Of Molecular Collisions meeting in Snowbird Utah, July 6-11, 2025. The medal, named for Professor Dudley Herschbach (Harvard University), who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986, recognizes “bold and architectural work, inspiring and empowering” in Experimental and Theoretical Chemical Dynamics.…

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Sandians develop new Theory-Informed Kinetics Model

November 25, 2025

Sandians develop new Theory-Informed Kinetics Model

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Tim Zwier Awarded Miguel Catalán Medal

September 17, 2025

Tim Zwier Awarded Miguel Catalán Medal

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