Technology Transfer Summaries
Bees replacing dogs as detectors of volatile organic compounds
Researchers at LANL began working with domestic honeybees in 2006 to detect explosive materials and narcotics. - 8/6/12
Increased durability and lifetime of fuel cell products
A revolutionary method of building a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for PEM fuel cells allows LANL to offer significant cost reductions and performance enhancements necessary for mainstream applications. - 4/3/12
Digital content tool analyzes "gist" of text-based documents
LANL’s Digital Knowledge Discovery Team has created a suite of digital-content-analysis tools to gather, reduce, annotate, organize, synthesize, and visualize digital content. - 4/3/12
Reinvention of laboratory apparatus cuts costs
New apparatus that is designed to be inexpensive, reconfigurable, and adaptable to both surface and solution electrochemical experiments. - 4/3/12
Solving the energy overusage problem
Energy use and related thermal management issues are serious business concerns, but with EnergyFit LANL can significantly reduce heat output and maintain consistent electrical cost. - 4/3/12
Hazardous odorless gases detected by LANL's IntelliCLAD
This new class of smart coatings are non-odorous but release an odor in the presence of selected gases of concern, reducing contamination and alerting people when danger arises. - 4/3/12
Programers advance with Kip Ray Tracer
Kip is a high-performance ray tracing library that provides rapid rendering and compact code while using very little memory so large numbers of shapes can be used simultaneously. - 4/3/12
KIVA's modeling code increases engine efficiency and fuel economy
Through an advanced computational modeling code that accurately simulates the in-cylinder processes of engines, LANL scientists have addressed many costly issues. - 4/3/12
Deep-space communication improved with electromagnetic radiation antenna
New antenna has potential applications in RADAR, secure communications, ultra-long-range communications, oncology and astrophysics. - 4/3/12
Faster than the speed of sight: High-speed camera provides high sensitivity, frame rate
High-speed cameras becomes less effective at high speeds; MOXIE fixes that problem by simultaneously providing both the highest photographic and physical speeds. - 4/3/12
Environmentally safe refrigerators: 30% more efficient
Better than conventional pulse-tube refrigerator the multi-stage refrigerator maximizes efficiency, capacity, and cooling performance. - 4/3/12
Computer software mimics the brain's vision
LANL is studying how the brain sees, attempting to replicate it and use the technology to utilize widespread fast, accurate, robust computer vision systems. - 4/3/12
Detecting radio frequencies with a cost-effective portable system
LANL has developed the NextRF receiver, a cost-effective portable system for collecting, detecting, analyzing, and locating signals in real time. - 4/3/12
Watch out, influenza! LANL has a new antibody therapy
Flu may be less of a problem thanks to LANL's discovery of a highly specific, tightly binding antibody to the M2 influenza protein. - 4/3/12
Pathogen detection made easy with Biological Identification and Quantification (BIOIQ)
Inexpensive, hand-held detector identifies and quantifies any strain or species of microorganism in real-time. - 4/3/12
Explosives detected by laser-based technology
ODD-Ex will be a highly reliable “stand-off” explosives detector that can detect very small quantities of explosive molecules at considerable distances. - 4/3/12
Drug resistant infections beat by natural compound
Researchers have discovered and isolated a naturally occurring compound that is highly effective at eliminating growth of gram positive and gram negative bacteria in vitro. - 4/3/12
Biological threats stopped through QS molecules
Recent work has led to the identification of a sophisticated, bacterial intercellular communication system that relies on the production and release of the quorum sensing (QS) molecules. - 4/3/12
Quantum Enabled Security (QES): valuable information protected
In today’s world, the information passed through optical networks every second is as valuable as currency; however, the security is often inadequate for the threats against them. - 4/3/12
Rabbit fever research may help in producing effective vaccines
Studying the antimicrobial action of a probiotic bacteria against dangerous infection agent in order to consider it for further probiotic inclusion into treatment and prevention. - 4/3/12
Safer, more effective explosives made by LANL scientists
Traditional explosives are hazardous to use, so LANL scientists have created economical and environmentally friendly explosive as an alternative. - 4/3/12
Vacuum electronics are a thing of the past
Today’s high-power, high-frequency vacuum electronics is hampered and industry also demands better beam quality, a longer lifetime, and less maintenance. - 4/3/12
Better than X-Ray: MagViz probes chemicals faster for less
While x-ray methods sample density and nuclear properties, MagViz can directly probe chemical environments, providing complementary information. - 4/3/12
Optical biosensor detects protein toxins, biological pathogens
Detecting viruses, bacterial infections, protein toxins and tumor specific antigens for the early diagnosis of cancer. - 4/3/12
Monitoring, surveillance enhanced with Integrated Knowledge Engine (IKE)
IKE gives analysts and decision makers better comprehension of acquired evidence and increases quality of rapid-response decisions. - 4/3/12
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM): Wireless sensing network saves money
Expensive wire is one source of economic concern, so LANL engineers have developed a wireless sensing network for SHM. - 4/3/12
Upgraded Phase and Radical Motion in Electron Accelerators
PARMELA is a versatile code that transforms the beam through a user-specified linear accelerator and/or transport system. It is a mature, globally-distributed code. - 4/3/12
Security encryption problems solved
Using the laws of physics instead of math, LANL scientists have created the QKarD to share data that is safeguarded from eavesdroppers. - 4/3/12
Technologies awarded as top advances of the year
Uranium reagents, valveless laser processing, and speedy DNA analysis included in top 100 proven technological advances of the year. - 4/3/12
Breast cancer detection: accurate, safe, inexpensive, more comfortable
Accurate, non-damaging early detection is a key factor to reducing the number of deaths caused by breast cancer. - 4/3/12
Emulating human eyes in computer framework
The goal of RADIUS is to bring analysis capability in line with sensing capability and provide broad area search support. - 4/3/12
Hydraulic fractures traced by monitoring microseismic events
LANL scientists have figured out how to discriminate between microseismic events occurring during fractures, increasing efficiency during repairs. - 4/3/12
Fast, effective snap ring application
Installation and removal of internal snap rings is often a difficult, time-consuming process. In response, LANL mechanical technicians have developed the Ratcheting Interior Snap Ring Tool designed specifically for internal snap ring applications. - 4/3/12
Genetic studies help save valuable species
LANL's proposed work will help research and preserve the cultured animal species. - 4/3/12
Detection breakthrough of fatal neuro-degenerative diseases
A sensitive immunoassay, termed SOFIA, can detect PrPSc from the brains of clinical scrapie-infected sheep. With PMCA, it can detect PrPSc in blood. - 4/3/12
Neutron radiation detector, safe new alternative
Gamma/neutron discrimination discerns between radiation emitted by nuclear materials and naturally occurring gamma radiation emitted by benign cargos. - 4/3/12
Test-systems for Avian Influenza detection on the Republic of Kazakhstan
Greater surveillance and monitoring of avian influenza with worldwide application in identifying virulent strains. - 4/3/12
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