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Illustration
In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to...
![Illustration of oxygen atoms leaving a lithium-ion battery as lithium flows in alongside a battery whose energy is being sapped by this process](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lithium_ion_oxygen_migration_la_final.jpg?h=32f6f5da&itok=E5SJYfqm)
Photograph
SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.
![SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/52003122146_2c9bb234eb_o.jpg?h=2f08a75f&itok=hH_-OZzw)
![Cryo-EM and SSRL training workshop](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2019_1119_CryoEM_SSRL_Training_Workshop-34114.jpg?h=f3647fe8&itok=r8b6G90o)
![SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid, the first user of the lab's instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED).](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/2019_0708_MeV-UED%201st_user-3451.jpg?h=5b79b311&itok=7j4WQ-6X)
Animation
This animation shows the results of a recent study at SLAC, in which researchers used a powerful beam of electrons to watch gold melt...
![UED Gold Melting](/sites/default/files/UED_GoldStory_technicalclip_V3.gif)
Illustration
Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.
![MEC silicon](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/mec_silicon_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=5fRShe6-)
SLAC EXPERTS
Areas of research: structural biology; X-ray crystallography; synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers; COVID-19 research and drug discovery; protein dynamics; experimental automation
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