News Article, March 3, 2015 • A recently completed Grand Challenge Laboratory-Directed Research and Development project resulted in a secure, scalable microgrid (SSM) research facility that is actively engaged in developing technologies to solve many of the nation’s most complex challenges in satisfying its electric energy needs. Initial focus has been on enabling resilient and reliable...
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Sandia Wins Funding for Two DOE-EERE Computer-Aided Battery-Safety R&D Projects
News Article, October 27, 2015 • Two recent energy storage modeling and simulation (mod/sim) R&D proposals developed by Scott Roberts (in Sandia’s Thermal/Fluid Component Sciences Dept.) have been funded. Sandia’s participation in these research activities stems from an ongoing Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) joint computational/experimental project led by Anne Grillet (also in Sandia’s Thermal/Fluid Component...
Small Electric Voltage Alters Conductivity in Key Materials
News Article, July 1, 2015 • Using only a 9-volt battery at room temperature, a team led by Sandia researcher Jon Ihlefeld (in Sandia’s Electronic, Optical, & Nano Materials Dept.) has altered the thermal conductivity of the widely used material PZT (lead zirconate titanate) by as much as 11% at subsecond time scales. They did it...
