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Cody Newlun
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography Cody J. Newlun is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He received a B.A. in physics with a minor in mathematics from Hasting College. He received a M.Eng. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering with an...
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Combining ‘Tinkertoy’ Materials with Solar Cells for Increased Photovoltaic Efficiency
News Article, December 4, 2014 • Sandia researcher Vitalie Stavila inserts a substrate patterned with electrodes into a temperature-controlled liquid-phase reactor for depositing MOF thin films. Sandia’s research team plans to combine MOFs with dye-sensitized solar cells, a technique it believes will lead to advancements in photovoltaic technology. (Photo by Dino Vournas) Sandia researchers have received...

Commercial Nuclear Power Generation
Page • One of Sandia’s goals is to develop, demonstrate and deploy solutions for a secure, safe, and resilient energy future. The commercial nuclear power generation component of the nuclear energy fuel cycle contributes to this goal by supporting: The sustainability of the current operating nuclear power plants by assessing and implementing...

Concentrating Solar Technologies Program to host System Advisor Model (SAM) seminar
News Article, November 28, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Technologies Program, as part of its Concentrating Solar Seminar Series and in conjunction with the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF), will present, “System Advisor Model (SAM) for Concentrating Solar Power,” facilitated by Paul Gilman, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00...

Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light-Water Reactors To Receive Up To $121.5M Over Five Years
News Article, February 24, 2015 • The Department of Energy approved the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light-Water Reactors’ (CASL’s) “Phase 2” renewal to develop advanced computing capabilities that serve as a virtual version of existing, operating nuclear reactors—to enable nuclear energy to continue to provide dependable, afford­able energy to America while advancing innovative research in...

Containing a nuclear accident with ground-up minerals
News Article, October 17, 2019 • Sandia’s injectable materials could stop contamination from spreading By Kristen Meub Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a promising new way to prevent the spread of radioactive contamination and contain the hot molten mass that develops within a nuclear reactor during a catastrophic accident. During a three-year Laboratory Directed...

Controlled Self-Assembly in Ternary Polymers
News Article, April 5, 2016 • Top Left: Schematic of ternary polymer monolayers. Top Right: AFM images of experimental systems, at different polymer fractions, compared with corresponding SCFT calculations. Bottom: phase diagram. Scientific Achievement By creating a dense layer with three types of polymer molecules bound to a surface, we have demonstrated unique self-assembled patterns both...

Craig Rodine
Staff Page • Principal Member, Technical Staff – S&E Cybersecurity R&D. Biography Craig Rodine is Principal Investigator for multiple DOE-funded projects, directing R&D on communications and cybersecurity applied at the ‘converged energy edge’. These projects cover a range of areas and interests, including Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure; the foundations of cybersecurity in...

Creating diamonds to shed light on the quantum world
News Article, September 26, 2022 • Diamonds are a scientist’s best friend. That much is at least true for physicist Andy Mounce, whose work with diamond quantum sensors at Sandia National Laboratories has earned him the DOE’s Early Career Research Award. As a scientist in Sandia’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, he specializes in making microscopic sensors...
Sandia National Laboratories’ Andy Mounce makes microscopic sensors to try to understand quantum materials at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. He is one of four employees to earn DOE’s Early Career Research Award. (Photo by Bret Latter

Creating the self-healing grid of the future
News Article, March 14, 2024 • Ropp Grid, Electrical Engineer Self-healing electrical grids: It may sound like a concept from science fiction, with tiny robots or some sentient tech crawling around fixing power lines, but in a reality not far from fiction a team of researchers is bringing this idea to life. What’s not hard to...
Michael Ropp poses for a photo at Sandia’s Distributed Energy Technology Lab (DETL) on Oct. 13, 2023. His team is working on ways for an energy microgrids to self-heal using computer algorithms. Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Labs

CRF Experiment Confirms Accepted Oxidation Scheme of Proposed Diesel Alternative: Dimethyl Ether
News Article, November 11, 2015 • Combustion Research Facility (CRF) researchers Kai Moshammer, Ahren Jasper, Arnas Lucassen, Arkke Eskola, Craig Taatjes, and Nils Hansen (all in Sandia’s Combustion Chemistry Dept.) as part of an international collaboration reported, in Journal of Physical Chemistry A, detecting and identifying previously undiscovered partially oxidized intermediates. This work provides experimental confirmation...

CRF Researchers Are Source for 2015 QTR Sidebar Content
News Article, October 1, 2015 • On September 10th, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz released the second Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR 2015), which examines the most promising research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) opportunities across energy technologies to effectively address the nation’s energy needs. Specifically, this analysis identifies the important technology RDD&D opportunities across energy supply and...

CRF Researchers Develop New Approach for Low-Cost Emissions Diagnostics
News Article, June 26, 2015 • Monolithic dual-etalon cavity ring-down spectrometer. Modeling and experiments show that it is feasible to perform multiple-species detection at sub-ppm levels with a low-resolution broad-band infrared laser. Target measurement species include CO2, CH, N2O, NO2, SO2, HCl, and CH4, among others, simultaneously, and without process treatment or dehumidification of the exhaust...
The combustion research facility seen from overhead

Cross-lab summit brings together experts to connect on climate issues
News Article, June 10, 2024 • Addressing climate change is a top priority for the U.S. Department of Energy, and the national laboratories stand at the forefront of research and action to meet this challenge. These efforts were highlighted at the inaugural Climate Summit between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories on May 7...
Five scientists sit at a long table in front of a screen and one person stands off to the side with an audience in the foreground

CSP Seminar Series: Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant
News Article, October 4, 2024 • The next installment of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility’s Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, from 10-11 a.m. MDT. Join Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3) Principal Investigator Jeremy Sment for “Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant,” an...
Image of the two towers:orignal built in 197 and the new G3P3 tower with heliostats at the bottom

Cummins Executives Visit Combustion Research Facility
News Article, July 7, 2015 • CRF researcher Jeff Koplow, right, explains the Sandia Cooler to Cummins President and CEO Tom Linebarger, on left, and Vice President and CTO John Wall, middle. The pair learned about many Sandia innovations on their visit to the CRF. (Photo by Dino Vournas) Tom Linebarger, Cummins Chairman & Chief Executive...
The combustion research facility seen from overhead

Cy Fujimoto
Staff Page • Chemist. Biography Cy Fujimoto is a Principle Member of the Technical Staff in the Nanoscale Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Cy’s work focuses on developing membrane separators for electrochemical applications. In the Office of Electricity’s program, he is developing membranes for several flow battery chemistries and partners with various...

Cycloalkanes a strong candidate for reducing aviation emissions
News Article, April 26, 2022 • Sandia research paves way for sustainable jet fuel Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have released data that could play an important role in the future development of cleaner and more sustainable aviation fuel. In collaboration with researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the team explored the physical properties of cycloalkanes,...
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Damian Gallegos-Patterson
Staff Page • R&D Mechanical Engineer. Biography Damian Gallegos-Patterson joined Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies Program in 2022. Damian’s work focuses primarily on test coordination and analysis for wave energy converters (WECs). Damian received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (2019) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a...

Daniel Gaebele
Staff Page • R&D Electrical Engineer. Biography Daniel Gaebele is a R&D electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies Program. His research focuses on wave energy converter (WEC) control co-design and control co-optimization, sociotechnical assessments of WECs for blue economy applications, and WEC seasonal deployments. Daniel Gaebele received his bachelor’s and...

Daniel Riley
Staff Page • Research Engineer. Biography Daniel Riley is a research engineer in the Photovoltaics (PV) and Materials Technology Program at Sandia National Laboratories. The scope of Daniel’s work includes PV modules and systems with focus in data acquisition, characterization, and modeling. Daniel has also developed skills for characterizing and modeling non-standard PV...

Data Modeling Analysis
Page • What We Do Around the world, stable and secure social, economic, and political systems are founded on a reliable supply of resources, including water, energy, and food. Yet natural events and human influences challenge the ability to ensure resources are available at local, regional, and global scales. Researchers at Sandia...

David Maniaci
Staff Page • Rotor Blade and Wind Plant Aerodynamics Lead. Biography Dr. David Maniaci is a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories and is the rotor blade and wind plant aerodynamics lead in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department. He is currently leading efforts on the verification, validation and...
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