Energy science

This early-career scientist has undertaken challenging projects with significant implications for lithium-ion batteries.

Combined with the lab’s LCLS X-ray laser, it’ll provide unprecedented atomic views of some of nature’s speediest processes.

What they learned could help manufacturers design more reliable and longer-lasting batteries for smartphones and cars.

A laser technique lets researchers see how potentially dangerous growths form in batteries.

In the decade since LCLS produced its first light, it has pushed boundaries in countless areas of discovery.

In a major step forward, SLAC’s X-ray laser captures all four stable states of the process that produces the oxygen we breathe, as well as fleeting steps in between. The work opens doors to understanding the past and creating a...

A new study is a step forward in understanding why perovskite materials work so well in energy devices and potentially leads the way toward a theorized “hot” technology that would significantly improve the efficiency of today’s solar cells.

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

By observing changes in materials as they’re being synthesized, scientists hope to learn how they form and come up with recipes for making the materials they need for next-gen energy technologies.

Presented by Sila Kiliccote. The grid that transmits our electrical power needs a radical transformation.  The structure of the grid has not changed fundamentally since its creation a century ago. But today’s grid faces new challenges.

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 for when it is needed, lessening the need to burn carbon-emitting fossil fuels.