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William Chueh

Associate Professor of materials science and engineering and of energy science and engineering; Director, SLAC-Stanford Battery Center; Faculty Scientist, Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES)

Areas of research: energy science; materials for energy; clean energy; sustainability; batteries; energy storage and conversion electrochemistry; redox chemistry; engineering; materials science; X-ray science; A.I. and machine learning

Making carbon-free electricity available when and wherever it is needed is a critical step to decarbonize our planet.”

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Analyzing X-ray movies with computer vision reveals how nanoparticles in a lithium-ion battery electrode work.

Illustration of battery electrode nanoparticles being imaged by X-rays

Press Release

New SLAC-Stanford Battery Center bridges the gaps between discovering, manufacturing and deploying innovative energy storage solutions.

Illustration showing a battery researcher at left, a battery at center and a grid of battery applications at right.

News Feature

Measuring the process in unprecedented detail gives them clues to how to minimize the problem and protect battery performance.

Illustration of oxygen atoms leaving a lithium-ion battery as lithium flows in alongside a battery whose energy is being sapped by this process

Press Release

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.

News Feature

New research offers the first complete picture of why a promising approach of stuffing more lithium into battery cathodes leads to their failure. A...

Press Release

Experiments at SLAC and Berkeley Lab uproot long-held assumptions and will inform future battery design.

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‘Computer vision’ reveals unprecedented physical and chemical details of how a lithium-ion battery works

New SLAC-Stanford Battery Center targets roadblocks to a sustainable energy transition

Scientists discover how oxygen loss saps a lithium-ion battery’s voltage

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

Untangling a strange phenomenon that both helps and hurts lithium-ion battery performance

X-rays uncover a hidden property that leads to failure in a lithium-ion battery material

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