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Fusion energy

Harnessing nuclear fusion would bring the clean, unlimited energy of the stars to Earth.

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Arianna Gleason

Staff scientist and deputy director of SLAC's High Energy Density Science division
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Existing EV batteries may last up to 40% longer than expected

Consumers’ real-world electric vehicle driving benefits batteries more than the steady use simulated in almost all laboratory tests of new battery designs, a Stanford-SLAC...

December 9, 2024
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Sodium-ion batteries need breakthroughs to compete

A market and supply chain analysis for sodium- and lithium-ion batteries is the first by STEER, a new Stanford-SLAC energy technology analysis program.

January 13, 2025
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News Brief

SLAC to develop fusion energy target technology as part of DOE Fusion Innovation Research Engine Collaboratives

As a member of a collaborative team led by General Atomics, SLAC will help bridge basic research programs with the growing fusion industry. 

February 19, 2025  ·  2 min read
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Chris Tassone

Associate Lab Director, Energy Sciences
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In a first, scientists capture a ‘quantum tug’ between neighboring water molecules

The work sheds light on the web of hydrogen bonds that gives water its strange properties, which play a vital role in many chemical...

August 25, 2021  ·  4 min read
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Revitalizing batteries by bringing ‘dead’ lithium back to life

Islands of inactive lithium creep like worms to reconnect with their electrodes, restoring a battery’s capacity and lifespan.

January 3, 2022  ·  4 min read
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First realistic portraits of squishy layer that’s key to battery performance

Cryo-EM snapshots of the solid-electrolyte interphase, or SEI, reveal its natural swollen state and offer a new approach to lithium-metal battery design.

January 6, 2022  ·  7 min read
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SLAC and Stanford researchers reveal the fourth signature of the superconducting transition in cuprates

The results cap 15 years of detective work aimed at understanding how these materials transition into a superconducting state where they can conduct electricity...

January 26, 2022  ·  5 min read
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Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go, Stanford study finds

A research team including SLAC staff engineer Gustavo Cezar shows that charging electric vehicles in the daytime would spread the load on the electric...

September 22, 2022
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Charging ahead: batteries of the future

Presented by Yi Cui, SLAC/Stanford University. To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as...

Date Thursday, October 6, 2022
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in the Panofsky Auditorium in the Science…
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