With a new method that could be extended to study Earth’s core and nuclear fusion, they identify and explain jumps in the electrical conductivity of aluminum under extreme conditions.
Director, SLAC-Stanford Battery Center; Director, Precourt Institute for Energy; Professor of materials science and engineering and of energy science and engineering; 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
One of the most urgent challenges of our time is discovering how to generate the energy and products we need sustainably – in a way that doesn’t compromise the well-being of future generations by depleting limited resources or accelerating climate...