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      Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together

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      Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all

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Public lecture

The New Grid: 100% Clean Energy for All

Presented by Sila Kiliccote. The grid that transmits our electrical power needs a radical transformation.  The structure of the grid has not changed fundamentally...

Date Tuesday, May 29, 2018
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support building
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Turning CO2 from smokestacks into products

Researchers at Stanford and SLAC are working on ways to convert waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemical feedstocks and fuels...
September 9, 2019
Diagram of scheme for turning CO2 from smokestacks into products
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Diamondoid seeds

August 1, 2018
Illustration of diamondoid and diamond crystals
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Battery dynamics

Diagram with icons depicting how X-ray studies, machine learning and lab work (left) were used to study electrode nanoparticles (center) for batteries used in...

March 1, 2021
Studies of electrode nanoparticles for batteries.
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A single battery cell

Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen holds a single Tesla battery cell inside the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC.
March 4, 2021
Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen holds a single battery cell inside the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC
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Battery Informatics Lab

Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works in the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC. 

March 3, 2021
Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works in the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC
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Arrillaga Science Center battery research

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

March 3, 2021
 Arrillaga Science Center battery research
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Small fuel cell inside of a sample chamber

This photo shows a small fuel cell inside of a sample chamber at SLAC's SSRL. This experimental station allows scientists to study fuel cells...

September 23, 2022
A small fuel cell inside of a sample chamber at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
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A muon spins like a top

A muon, center, spins like a top within the atomic lattice of a thin film of superconducting nickelate.

July 28, 2022
A brightly colored top is seen spinning between two layers of gray, purple and red spheres representing atoms in a nickel oxide superconductor.  The top represents a fundamental particle called a muon.
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Energy science directorate (ESD) team 

Energy science directorate (ESD) team 

October 16, 2022
Energy Sciences Directorate team at the Battery500 Quarterly Review Meeting on May 25-26 at SLAC's Main Quad.
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PULSE graduate student

PULSE graduate student Jian Chen in a laser lab at SLAC.
September 29, 2022
PULSE graduate student Jian Chen in a laser lab at SLAC.
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Stable catalyst

November 4, 2022
A web of red material encapsulates blue polyhedrons.
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