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Researchers Find New Way of Making Hydrogen Fuel from Water and Improve Grid-scale Batteries
Yi Cui and colleagues have developed new ways to improve hydrogen production and rechargeable zinc batteries.
With Spiraling Light, SLAC X-ray Laser Offers New Glimpses of Molecules
A new device at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allows researchers to explore the properties and dynamics of molecules with circularly polarized, or spiraling, light.
Scientists Use a Frozen Gas to Boost Laser Light to New Extremes
A SLAC/Stanford study opens a new path to producing laser pulses that are just billionths of a billionth of a second long by inducing ‘high harmonic generation’ in a solid.
Extracting Miniature Diamonds from Crude
Precisely flawed nanodiamonds could produce next-generation tools for imaging and communications.
SIMES Engineers Look Inside Nanoparticles to Explore How Their Shape Improves Energy Storage
Many technologies rely upon nanomaterials that can absorb or release atoms quickly and repeatedly. New work provides a first look inside these phase-changing nanoparticles.
Peering Deep Into Materials with Ultrafast Science
Laser light exposes the properties of materials used in batteries and electronics.
SLAC Researchers Recreate the Extreme Universe in the Lab
Computer simulations and lab experiments help researchers understand the violent universe and could potentially lead to new technologies that benefit humankind.
Scientists Improve Perovskite Solar-cell Absorbers by Giving Them a Squeeze
Adding pressure could improve the performance of solar cells made of perovskites, a promising photovoltaic material.
X-rays Reveal How a Solar Cell Gets its Silver Stripes
Scientists have used X-rays to observe exactly how silver electrical contacts form during manufacturing of solar modules.
5 Ways SLAC’s X-ray Laser Can Change the Way We Live
Toward next-generation electronics, better medications and green energy solutions: "The First Five Years" point to a bright future of high-impact discovery at LCLS.
