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Chandra Curry at the Matter in Extreme Conditions experimental hutch 6 at LCLS.

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Johanna Nelson uses powerful X-ray imaging to study lithium-sulfur batteries, a promising technology that could some day power electric vehicles.

Scientists Probe Lithium-Sulfur Batteries in Real Time

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Stanford postdoctoral researcher Stephen Dongmin Kang, left, demonstrates how he works at a modular glovebox workstation while Stanford postdoc Jungjin Park works at a...

Arrillaga Science Center battery research

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In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to...

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SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.

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Cryo-EM and SSRL training workshop at SLAC.

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The results of a new scientific study reveal how photosynthetic reaction centers adapt to make light-driven reactions more efficient.

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SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid

$SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid, the first user of the lab's instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED).$

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Its electron beams will drive the generation of up to a million ultrabright X-ray flashes per second.

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This animation shows the results of a recent study at SLAC, in which researchers used a powerful beam of electrons to watch gold melt...

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Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.

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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...

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Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Chandra Curry working in the MEC hutch

Scientists Probe Lithium-Sulfur Batteries in Real Time

Arrillaga Science Center battery research

Lithium-ion oxygen migration

SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall

Cryo-EM and SSRL workshop

Shapeshifting proteins provide electrons safe passage during photosynthesis

MeV-UED first user

SLAC fires up electron gun for LCLS-II X-ray laser upgrade

UED gold melting

MEC silicon

SLAC fires up the world’s most powerful X-ray laser: LCLS-II ushers in a new era of science