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Batteries and similar devices accept, store, and release electricity on demand. Scientists are using new tools to better understand the electrical and chemical processes in batteries to produce a new generation of highly efficient, electrical energy storage. 

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Illustration from SLAC Public Lecture series titled Improving batteries from the atoms up.

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Batteries come in many shapes and sizes, but their materials can be hard to source. SLAC researchers are trying to build them with more...

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Press Release

New SLAC-Stanford Battery Center bridges the gaps between discovering, manufacturing and deploying innovative energy storage solutions. 

Illustration showing a battery researcher at left, a battery at center and a grid of battery applications at right.
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The new SLAC-Stanford Battery Center aims to bridge the gaps between discovering, manufacturing and deploying innovative energy storage solutions. 

Illustration showing a battery researcher at left, a battery at center and a grid of battery applications at right.
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Two of the most urgent challenges of our time – clean energy and sustainability – require investigation at the atomic level.

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A polymer-based electrolyte makes for batteries that keep working – and don’t catch fire – when heated to over 140 degrees F. 

A white disc of battery material catches fire.
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Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance. 

Studies of atomic-level processes that drain battery life and efficiency help improve battery performance.
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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...

public lecture art charging ahead: batteries of the future
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  Public lecture presented by Yijin Liu

Public Lecture | Improving Batteries from the Atoms Up presented by Yijin Liu
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Johanna Nelson uses powerful X-ray imaging to study lithium-sulfur batteries, a promising technology that could some day power electric vehicles.

Scientists Probe Lithium-Sulfur Batteries in Real Time
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How quickly a battery electrode decays depends on properties of individual particles in the battery – at first. Later on, the network of particles...

A group of particles, some highlighted in reds and oranges to show which have begun to break apart.
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SLAC’s Matt Garrett and Susan Simpkins talk about tech transfer that brings innovations from the national lab to the people, including advances for medical...

Tech Transfer
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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.

A battery's liquid electrolyte clings to small holes in a cryo-EM sample holder.