Glennda Chui

Senior Editor

Glennda edits all sorts of materials and writes about things like quantum materials, making fuels from water and building better batteries. She’s a former science reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, and holds a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in journalism. She’s fond of tiny things, from skyrmions to spiders, and loves to sing and dance.

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The latest advance from a research collaboration with industry could dramatically accelerate the development of sturdier batteries for fast-charging electric vehicles.

Studies of electrode nanoparticles for batteries.

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Just as pressing a guitar string produces a higher pitch, sending laser light through a material can shift it to higher energies and higher...

High harmonic generation in a topological insulator.

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A promising lead halide perovskite is great at converting sunlight to electricity, but it breaks down at room temperature. Now scientists have discovered how...

Lead halide material being squeezed in a diamond anvil cell.

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The surprising results offer a way to boost the activity and stability of catalysts for making hydrogen fuel from water.

Illustration showing a book with layers of atoms on its pages

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These fleeting disruptions, seen for the first time in lead hybrid perovskites, may help explain why these materials are exceptionally good at turning sunlight...

An illustration shows polarons as bubbles of distortion in a perovskite lattice

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The study, done on a mild-mannered relative of the virus that causes COVID-19, paves the way for seeing more clearly how spike proteins initiate...

Glennda Chui

In a leap for battery research, machine learning gets scientific smarts

A new hands-off probe uses light to explore the subtleties of electron behavior in a topological insulator

Squeezing a rock-star material could make it stable enough for solar cells

Study shows tweaking one layer of atoms on a catalyst’s surface can make it work better

First glimpse of polarons forming in a promising next-gen energy material

Scientists get the most realistic view yet of a coronavirus spike’s protein structure

Written by Glennda Chui