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Batteries for the Future: What's Possible?

Lecture presented by Yi Cui

May 20, 2015
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Distorted quantum material

This illustration depicts a herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a quantum material created by researchers at SLAC and Stanford.

February 21, 2023
An illustration of a dramatic, herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a newly created quantum material. Against a black background, calcium atoms are seen as light blue spheres, cobalt atoms in dark blue and oxygen atoms in red. Lines connecting the oxygen atoms represent the atomic lattice.
Public Lecture Poster

Searching for Trolls under the Electron Bridge (poster)

January 24, 2024
Elizabeth Ryland Public Lecture poster
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Meet Molleigh Preefer: how do synchrotrons help develop fast-charging batteries?

Learn more about how materials chemist and SLAC Associate Scientist Molleigh Preefer uses the powerful X-rays of SLAC’s synchrotron to watch battery charging cycles...

August 19, 2024  ·  00:02:31  runtime
Stillframe of video interview with Molleigh_Preefer
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Van de Graff generator

SAGE campers have fun experimenting with a Van de Graff generator.
August 28, 2024
SAGE campers have fun experimenting with a Van de Graff generator
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How can we improve our understanding of fusion energy?

Learn more about how scientists and engineers at SLAC are working on new tools for improving our understanding of fusion energy.
February 16, 2024  ·  00:00:54  runtime
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Public Lecture Poster

A blueprint for new fuel cell catalysts

October 18, 2013
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Journey to the Center of the Earth

October 18, 2013
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Printing Solar Cells for Greener Energy

Public lecture presented by Michael McGehee

January 24, 2012  ·  01:18:15  runtime
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Flow battery

Yi Cui is an associate professor of materials science and engineering and a member of the Stanford Institute for Materials...
August 28, 2013
Flow battery
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X-rays reveal secret life of batteries

May 8, 2014
X-rays reveal secret life of batteries
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X-rays Reveal Secret Life of Batteries (recording)

Public lecture presented by Johanna Nelson Weker

May 27, 2014  ·  00:58:04  runtime
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