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Public Lecture Poster

Improving batteries from the atoms up poster

January 27, 2021
Public Lecture poster: image of a battery
Public Lecture Poster

Camera for the Invisible

February 25, 2021
Caterina Vernieri Public Lecture: A large camera lens
Public Lecture Poster

Getting to the Core of Earth’s Magnetic Field poster

January 14, 2022
Public Lecture Poster: picture of earth's magnetic field
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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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Nickelate and cuprate superconductors

The first measurements of magnetic excitations rippling through a nickelate (Ni) superconductor show it's closely related to cuprate (Cu) superconductors...
July 7, 2021
Illustration showing nickelate and cuprate superconductors as cartoon characters that are either close friends holding hands or neighbors talking over a fence.
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Single nickel atom bonded to nitrogen atoms

This illustration shows one of the active sites of a new catalyst that accelerates the first step in making fuels...
August 4, 2021
A ball-and-stick illustration of a single nickel atom (green) bonded to nitrogen atoms (blue) on the surface of a carbon material. The arrangement allows the nickel atoms to catalyze two types of reactions involved in making fuel from CO2.
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Emmanuel Aneke

Al Ashley Fellow Emmanuel Aneke.
August 26, 2021
Emmanuel Aneke
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Surface of a catalyst as a lattice work of atoms

An illustration depicts a new system developed at SLAC and Stanford that anchors individual iridium atoms to the surface of...
August 27, 2021
Illustration showing surface of a catalyst as a lattice work of atoms, with single iridium molecules held above it on tiny 8-sided structures to facilitate splitting of water molecules seen floating above
Public Lecture Poster

The Tug of War that Shapes the Universe poster

August 31, 2021
Public Lecture poster: picture of the universe
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