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VIA Stanford Energy

Coating developed by Stanford, SLAC researchers brings lithium metal battery closer to reality

The coating significantly extends the battery's life and reduces the problems that cause batteries to burst into flames.

August 26, 2019
Stanford PhD students David Mackanic, left, and Zhiao Yu with their battery tester
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First report of superconductivity in a nickel oxide material

Made with ‘Jenga chemistry,’ the discovery could help crack the mystery of how high-temperature superconductors work.

August 28, 2019  ·  5 min read
Illustration of 'Jenga chemistry' step of making new superconductor
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SLAC summer programs encourage students to explore STEM careers

From middle schoolers to graduate students, more than 300 were introduced this year to real-world science, technology, engineering and math.

September 4, 2019  ·  4 min read
Participant in a SLAC SAGE-S summer camp
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Plastics, fuels and chemical feedstocks from CO2? They’re working on it.

SUNCAT researchers discover a way to improve a key step in these conversions, and explore what it would take to turn the climate-changing gas...

September 9, 2019  ·  6 min read
Diagram of scheme for turning CO2 from smokestacks into products
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Xinru Wang wins 2019 Klein Award for research on cell signaling in enzymes

Using SLAC’s X-ray synchrotron SSRL, Wang improves fundamental knowledge about how cells communicate, which could enable the development of more effective drugs.

September 10, 2019  ·  3 min read
Xinru Wang
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VIA Stanford News

A new route to carbon-neutral fuels from CO2

SLAC/Stanford scientists and their colleagues find a new way to efficiently convert CO2 into the building block for sustainable liquid fuels.

September 16, 2019
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In brief: New round of DOE awards bolsters quantum information science at SLAC

Two projects will look for ways to link individual quantum devices into networks for quantum computing and ultrasensitive detectors.

September 16, 2019  ·  1 min read
QIS microantenna
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What is a molecular movie?

Molecular movie-making is both an art and a science; the results let us watch how nature works on the smallest scales.

October 7, 2019  ·  12 min read
Molecular movie frames for the light-triggered transition of the ring-shaped 1,3-CHD molecule.
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Matteo Mitrano receives 2019 LCLS Young Investigator Award for pioneering new techniques to probe high-temperature superconductivity

Early career award recognizes Mitrano’s work in ultrafast X-ray scattering.

September 20, 2019  ·  3 min read
Matteo Mitrano
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In brief: Breaking up buckyballs is hard to do

A new study shows how soccer ball-shaped molecules burst more slowly than expected when blasted with an X-ray laser beam.

September 23, 2019  ·  2 min read
Buckyballs
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VIA Stanford News

William Madia retiring as Stanford’s vice president for SLAC

William Madia, Stanford vice president for SLAC since 2008, plans to retire at the end of September.

September 24, 2019
Portrait of William Madia
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In brief: Researchers home in on extremely rare nuclear process

The complete data from the EXO-200 experiment provide new information on neutrinoless double beta decay and set the stage for future experiments that will...

September 24, 2019  ·  2 min read
The EXO-200 underground detector.
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