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When disaster strikes, people evacuate, because structures that normally protect us -- buildings, bridges, dams, and tunnels -- are often the most dangerous places to be during catastrophes.Sandia Labs wants people to feel compelled to run into buildings rather than out of them during emergencies.

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1- Nano-patterns to foster future structures; 2- architectural surety program aimed at terrorism and catastrophes; 3- micro-guardians safeguard nuclear weapons.

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An engineer at Sandia has developed a way to fabricate ceramics that requires no molds or machining. Called robocasting, it relies on robotics for computer-controlled deposition of ceramic slurries -- mixtures of ceramic powder, water, and chemical modifers

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Protein misfolding is a cause of Alzheimer's,"mad cow" disease, and could figure in biowarfare. Now the first successful computer model of one protein interfering with the folding of another has been created at Sandia. The model provides insights into the mechanisms by which incomplete folds occur.

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a foam that begins neutralizing both chemical and biological agents in minutes. Because it is not harmful to people, it could be dispensed on the disaster scene immediately, even before casualties are evacuated.

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So that police will not have to routinely evacuate an area and blow up stray packages, Sandia has developed a technique to determine if they contain bombs. A remotely controlled, motorized cart will roll an X-ray device to the scene.

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Self-assembling nanospheres that fit inside each other like Russian dolls are one form of a broad range of nanospheres created in the past 12 months at Sandia National Laboratories. The unprecedented control, which has medical, industrial and military potential, is presented in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

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Minute acoustic wave chemical sensors being developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories will in the next two years be part of a hand-held chemical detection system, commonly called "chem lab on a chip," and other integrated microsensor systems.

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Sandia National Laboratories, five commercial ceramic manufacturers and Los Alamos National Laboratory are making ceramic history by taking the "art" out of ceramics production and replacing it with science, resulting in better products and lower production costs.

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A discovery linking the shape of a unit called the heme in a protein to protein function may prove useful in a range of scientific advances, including finding cures for diseases and cleaning up pollutants, says the discoverer, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories.