News releases

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.

Researchers used cryo-EM (left) to discover how a chamber in human cells (right) directs protein folding.

A pom-pom like object with curly tangles in purple and blue shades and yellow tangles at center, reminiscent of a zinnia blossom.

Under his 10-year leadership, the lab has significantly expanded its research and impact.

Powerful X-rays from SLAC’s synchrotron reveal that our immune system’s primary wiring seems to be no match for a brutal SARS-CoV-2 protein.

Studying a material that even more closely resembles the composition of ice giants, researchers found that oxygen boosts the formation of diamond rain.

The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.

The work sheds light on the web of hydrogen bonds that gives water its strange properties, which play a vital role in many chemical and biological processes.

They discover a short-lived state that could lead to faster and more energy-efficient computing devices.

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.

Adding polymers and fireproofing to a battery’s current collectors makes it lighter, safer and about 20% more efficient.

Conceptual illustration of advantages of redesigned current collector.

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

SLAC/Stanford researchers discover how a nano-chamber in the cell directs protein folding

Chi-Chang Kao to step down as SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory director

SARS-CoV-2 protein caught severing critical immunity pathway

‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought

SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space

In a first, scientists capture a ‘quantum tug’ between neighboring water molecules

Scientists take first snapshots of ultrafast switching in a quantum electronic device

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

A new approach boosts lithium-ion battery efficiency and puts out fires, too