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International collaboration investigates low-carbon cement technologies

News Article, April 27, 2023 • Concrete — the hard, durable masonry that surrounds us everywhere in the form of roads, bridges, dams, and buildings — has a carbon problem. Thanks to a key ingredient, cement, concrete production accounts for roughly eight percent of worldwide CO2 emissions. Researchers at Sandia hope to trim down the negative climate...

Sandia, Georgia Institute of Technology Form Academic Collaboration

News Article, July 8, 2015 • In early June, Sandia and the Georgia Tech signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU), establishing a strategic collaboration that seeks to solve science and technology problems of national importance in the areas of energy and grid security, advanced manufacturing, computer science and data analytics, microsystems and sensors, cybersecurity, and materials...

Sandian Selected for Outstanding Engineer Award

News Article, December 10, 2014 • Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (right) along with fellow Sandia researchers Murat Okandan (left) and Greg Nielson (center) hold samples containing arrays of microsystems-enabled photoltaic (MEPV) cells. (Photo by Randy Montoya) The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 6: Southwest Area (encompassing New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Nevada) has selected...

Stunning discovery: Metals can heal themselves

News Article, August 8, 2023 • Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it could usher in an engineering revolution — one in which self-healing engines, bridges and airplanes...