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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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Representatives from industry, national laboratories and the investment sector explored partnerships in energy storage innovation.

Photo: Paul Dabbar at the XLab Summit at SLAC
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Experiments at SLAC and Berkeley Lab uproot long-held assumptions and will inform future battery design.

Lithium ion infographic
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Using SLAC’s X-ray synchrotron SSRL, Cao improves fundamental knowledge about how a new lithium-ion battery material works, which will help enable safer, longer-lasting devices.

Chuntian Cao
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SIMES scientists have developed a manganese-hydrogen battery that could fill a missing piece in the nation’s energy puzzle by storing wind and solar energy...

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The new facility provides revolutionary tools for exploring tiny biological machines, from viral particles to the interior of the cell.

SLAC-Stanford Cryo-EM Facility
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An illustration of electrolyte molecules arranging themselves into layers within a few nanometers of a battery electrode.

Illustration of molecular layers in battery electrolyte
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Streamlining their journey through the electrolyte could help lithium-ion batteries charge faster.

Illustration of molecular layers in battery electrolyte
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They created a comprehensive picture of how the same chemical processes that give these cathodes their high capacity are also linked to changes in...

Electrode structure for lithium ion battery.
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Remarkable cryo-EM images that reveal details down to the individual atom will yield new insights into why high-energy batteries fail.

A lithium metal dendrite, taken with cryogenic electron microscopy or cryo-EM
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The award recognizes the Stanford/SLAC professor’s pioneering work in the fields of energy and nanomaterials science.

Photo - Yi Cui SLAC/Stanford professor
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Liu acknowledged for wide-ranging work in energy materials, catalysis, carbon sequestration, material in extreme conditions and scientific big data mining.

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An interdisciplinary team has developed a way to track how particles charge and discharge at the nanoscale, an advance that will lead to better...