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2008 LDRD Day
Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program celebrated its third LDRD Day on September 19, 2008, featuring five oral presentations and forty-five posters of successful projects. These projects are evidence of both the breadth and depth of LDRD-funded scientific ingenuity, as well as of the significant promise that these projects hold for advancing Sandia's national security mission. VP and CTO Rick Stulen presented Awards for Excellence in R&D to seven principal investigators, nominated from projects that ended in FY 2006, 2007 or 2008. The afternoon poster session provided attendees with the opportunity to communicate and explore new, cross-disciplinary collaborations.
 
Awardees
A MEMS Based Thermoacoustic Engine
PI: Chris Apblett
PM: Kent Schubert
Team: Amelia M. Sanchez, Scott A. Whalen
Developed a fundamentally new microscale engine based on thermoacoustics, and demonstrated critical fabrication steps to realize a 1-cc prototype heat engine with no moving parts.
Creating a Discovery Platform for Confined-space Chemistry and Materials: Metal Organic Frameworks
PI: Mark Allendorf
PM: Yolanda Fintschenko
Team: Blake A. Simmons, Jeffery A. Greathouse, Julia W.P. Hsu
This LDRD created, for the first time, metal organic framework films on surfaces, providing a foundation for development of new MOF-based devices and surface chemistries.

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Collaborative Situational Awareness in Network-Centric Warfare
PI: John Ganter
PM: Carol Harrison
Team: Andrew J. Scholand
Developed a new systems analysis technique to explain the role of crew communication and linguistic reasoning in cross-cultural Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sensor operations.

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Exploiting Interfacial Water Properties for Desalination and Purification Applications
PI: Randy Cygan
PM: John Merson
Team: Tina M. Nenoff, Peter. J. Feibelman, C. Jeffrey Brinker, Bruce. C. Bunker
A multifaceted fundamental research program to develop the basic understanding of structure, transport, and chemistry of water near surfaces and in confined spaces.
Ion Neutron SIMulation - INSIM
PI: George Vizkelethy
PM: Barney Doyle
Team: Edward S. Bielejec, Barney L. Doyle, Daniel L. Buller, Robert M. Fleming, Harold P. Hjalmarson
A method was created using high-energy heavy-ion beams to simulate neutron displacement damage in electronic devices.
Miniature Flow Cytometer for Medical Diagnosis and Pathogen Detection
PI: Igal Brener
PM: James Hudgens
Team: Conrad D. James, Steven J. Younghouse, Kimberly M. Taylor, Jeremy B. Wright, Yun-Ju Lee
Demonstrated flow focusing of cells and beads using acoustic waves in a microfluidic chip, a critical technology for miniaturization of flow cytometry.

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Molten Salt-Based Growth of Bulk GaN and InN for Substrates
PI: Karen Waldrip
PM: Daniel Doughty
Team: Mark A. Rodriguez, David Ingersoll, James L. Krumhansl, Frank M. Delnick
Development of novel, scalable crystal growth technique for incongruently melting materials with volatile components, e.g., group III-nitrides.
 
Posters
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Click to download poster Research of Exothermic Nanolaminates and their Structure-Property Relationships Click to download poster Creating a Discovery Platform for Confined-Space Chemistry and Materials: Metal Organic Frameworks (award winner)
Click to download poster Autonomous Intelligent Assembly Systems Click to download poster Three-Dimensional Analysis for Nanoscale Science
Click to download poster Electromagnetic Properties of Plumes and Plasma Jets for High-power Microwave Applications Click to download poster Massive Multithreading Applied to National Infrastructure Informatics
Click to download poster Remotely Interrogated Passive Polarizing Dosimeter Click to download poster Miniature Flow Cytometer for Medical Diagnostics and Pathogen Detection (award winner)
Click to download poster Shear Horizontal Surface Acoustic Wave Microsensor for Class A Viral and Bacterial Detection Click to download poster Creation of a First Principles Simulation of Weapons-Generated Electromagnetic Pulse
Click to download poster Quantum Information Science and Technology Grand Challenge Click to download poster High Throughput Discovery and Verification of Biomarkers for Biodefense
Click to download poster Network Design Optimization of Fuel Cell Systems and Distributed Energy Devices Click to download poster Nanoengineering for Solid-State Lighting
Click to download poster Enhanced Simulation for Homeland Security Training Click to download poster Sensors, Plans and Situations: Collaborative Situational Awareness in Network-Centric Warfare (award winner)
Click to download poster "Trojan Horse" Strategy for Deconstruction of Biomass for Biofuels Production Click to download poster Network Discovery, Characterization, and Prediction: a Grand Challenge LDRD
Click to download poster HPC Application and Performance Analysis and Prediction Click to download poster Antibacterial Polymer Coatings
Click to download poster RF/Microwave Properties of Nanotubes and Nanowires Click to download poster Active Coded-Aperture Neutron Imaging
Click to download poster Enhanced Performance of Engineered Neural Networks Using Microfabricated Guidance Cues and Predictive Computational Modeling Click to download poster Enhanced Molecular Dynamics for Simulating Thermal and Charge Transport Phenomena in Metals and Semiconductors
Click to download poster Highly Pixelated Hypertemporal Sensors for Global Awareness Grand Challenge Click to download poster High-Speed Spectral Sensor
Click to download poster Fiber Laser Grand Challenge (FLGC) Click to download poster Peridynamics As a Rigorous Coarse-Graining of Atomistics for Multiscale Materials Design
Click to download poster Direct Approaches for Recycling Carbon Dioxide in to Synthetic Fuel Click to download poster Irradiation for the Novel Radiolytic Formation of Superalloy Nanoparticles
Click to download poster Active Polymer Composites for Detection of Abnormal Thermal and Optical Environments Click to download poster Tuned Micro-Cavity Magnetometer
Click to download poster Research on Micro-Sized Acoustic Bandgap (ABG) Structures Click to download poster Large-Scale Simulation for Human Behavior Modeling
Click to download poster Crossing the Mesoscale No-Man's Land: Parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation Click to download poster Distributed Micro-releases of Bioterror Pathogens: Threat Characterization and Epidemiology from Uncertain Patients Observables
Click to download poster DSA Intelligent Transformational Systems Real-time Individualized Training Vectors for Experiential Learning Click to download poster Foundational Development of an Advanced Burner Reactor Integrated Safety Code
Click to download poster Quantifiable and Objective Approach to Organizational Performance Enhancement Click to download poster Piezoelectric and Electrical Properties of ZnO Nanorods for Sensor Applications
Click to download poster Multi-Length Scale Algorithms for Failure Modeling in Solid Mechanics Click to download poster "Bottom-up" Meets "Top-down": Self-assembly to Direct Manipulation of Nanostructures on Length Scales from Atoms to Microns
Click to download poster Terahertz Microelectronics Transceiver Click to download poster Understanding Surface Breakdown in Electronegative Gases
Click to download poster Supercritical Brayton Cycle: Test-Loop Development, Controls, Testing, and Model Validation    
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Presentations
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Click to download poster Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Day Symposium and Awards for Excellence   Click to download poster Micro-Kelvin Molecule Production  
Click to download poster The Advanced Hard Target Warhead Project   Click to download poster Passive and Active Electromagnetic Frequency Selective Surfaces for High-Power Beam Applications  
Click to download poster Microscale Immune Studies Laboratory: Studying Cell Signaling with Single-Cell Resolution   Click to download poster Novel Foam Encapsulation Materials and Processes  
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