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Researchers show an old law still holds for quirky quantum materials

Strongly interacting electrons in quantum materials carry heat and charge in a way that’s surprisingly similar to what individual electrons do in normal metals...

November 30, 2023  ·  3 min read
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Energy Sciences Directorate

From studying chemical reactions that happen in femtosecond timescale to advancing society’s energy technology, the Energy Sciences Directorate’s research addresses an enormous range of critical scientific challenges.

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SLAC-Stanford Battery Center

The new SLAC-Stanford Battery Center creates a generational opportunity enabling translational research in electrochemical science and technology bridging across fundamental science to deployment.

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News Brief

SLAC and its partners release a free, easy-to-use platform for understanding and managing electric grids

SLAC and its partners have released a free, easy-to-use platform for understanding and managing electric grids. 

December 18, 2023  ·  2 min read
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Past Event
Public Lecture

Searching for Trolls under the Electron Bridge

Presented by Elizabeth Ryland

Date Thursday, January 25, 2024
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
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Feature

Researchers release solar power data software to increase clean energy generation

The software tool sorts through messy data to reveal what’s really going on with solar panels on cloudy and sunny days.

January 17, 2024  ·  4 min read
This is a graphic representation of solar power system data. The data is processed by algorithms, which turn the data into specific power loss causes.
News Release

These colorful crystals may hold clues for future quantum computers

SLAC and Stanford scientists uncovered a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that may have applications for quantum information.

November 14, 2025  ·  5 min read
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News Brief

SLAC researchers measure how materials hotter than the sun’s surface conduct electricity

With a new method that could be extended to study Earth’s core and nuclear fusion, they identify and explain jumps in the electrical conductivity...

December 18, 2025  ·  3 min read
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SLAC Experts

Thomas Jaramillo

SUNCAT Director, Professor of chemical engineering, of energy science and engineering, and of photon science

Areas of research: Energy sciences; catalysis; sustainable production and use of fuels and chemicals

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SLAC EXPERTS

William Chueh

Director, SLAC-Stanford Battery Center; Director, Precourt Institute for Energy; Professor of materials science and engineering and of energy science and engineering; Faculty Scientist, Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES)

Areas of research:  energy science; materials for energy; clean energy; sustainability; batteries; energy storage and conversion electrochemistry; redox chemistry; engineering; materials science; X-ray science...

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Energy and sustainability

Two of the most urgent challenges of our time – clean energy and sustainability – require investigation at the atomic level.

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Research

Energy sciences

One of the most urgent challenges of our time is discovering how to generate the energy and products we need sustainably – in a way that doesn’t compromise the well-being of future generations by depleting limited resources or accelerating climate...

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