New 'Designer Carbon' Boosts Battery Performance

Seen in atomic detail, the seemingly smooth flow of ions through a battery’s electrolyte is a lot more complicated.

The team reduced the amount of expensive platinum group metals needed to make an effective cell and found a new way to test future...

With up to a million X-ray flashes per second, 8,000 times more than its predecessor, it transforms the ability of scientists to explore atomic-scale...

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

Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, Claudio Emma,  Bernhard Mistlberger and Johanna Nelson Weker will pursue cutting-edge research into decarbonizing steel production, theoretical physics, generating more intense particle...

Batteries come in many shapes and sizes, but their materials can be hard to source. SLAC researchers are trying to build them with more...