Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES)
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Stanford, SIMES Get Closer to a Pure Lithium Anode Battery Design
Researchers have taken a big step toward accomplishing what battery designers have been trying to do for decades – design a pure lithium anode.
A Look Inside SLAC’s Battery Lab
Tucked in a small laboratory at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a team of scientists from the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) is making and testing new types of lithium-ion batteries. Their goal: create a battery five times better than the ones we use today.
Researchers Led by Stanford Engineer Figure Out How to Make More Efficient Fuel Cells
Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale alternative energy power systems more practical and reliable.
Harold Hwang Wins Prestigious European Physics Prize
Harold Hwang, the deputy director of SLAC's Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), has been awarded the 2014 EPS Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize for his role in the discovery and investigation of electron liquids at oxide interfaces.
Scientists Find Stronger 3-D Material that Behaves Like Graphene
Researchers from Oxford, SIMES and Berkeley Lab say cadmium arsenide could yield practical devices with the same extraordinary electronic properties as 2-D graphene.
A New Way to Harness Waste Heat
A new battery design harnesses waste heat in a four-step process: heating, charging, cooling and discharging.
Exploring Heat and Energy at the Smallest Scales
In a recent experiment at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, scientists "tickled" atoms to explore the flow of heat and energy across materials at ultrasmall scales.
Revealed at Last: Atomic Mechanism for Historic Materials Transformation
SLAC-led researchers have made the first direct measurements of a small, extremely rapid atomic rearrangement that dramatically changes the properties of many important materials.
Scientists Watch High-temperature Superconductivity Emerge out of Magnetism
Scientists at SLAC and Stanford show how high-temperature superconductivity emerges out of magnetism in an iron pnictide, a class of materials with great potential for making devices that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency.
SLAC's Siegfried Glenzer Selected to Receive E.O. Lawrence Award
SLAC's Siegfried Glenzer has been selected to receive an Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, presented by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to honor scientists across a range of fields.
