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One of the most urgent challenges of our time is discovering how to generate the energy and products we need sustainably, without compromising the well-being of future generations by depleting limited resources or accelerating climate change. SLAC pursues this goal on many levels.

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Studies of atomic-level processes
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  Scientists Craft Two Exotic Forms of Carbon into a Molecule for Steering Electron Flow

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Lee comes from MIT, where his team recently discovered a fundamentally new type of magnetic behavior in a mineral called herbertsmithite.

SLAC and Stanford Professor Young S. Lee
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SLAC Experiment Reveals Mysterious Order in Liquid Helium

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SIMES Researcher Developed Innovative Printing Process

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Photon science, a spin-off of particle physics, has returned to its roots for help developing better, faster detectors.

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Researchers have taken a big step toward accomplishing what battery designers have been trying to do for decades – design a pure lithium anode.

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Sulfur Cathode Experiments Test Chemistry Beyond Conventional Lithium-Ion

Photo - scientist preparing a dime-sized prototype battery
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Stanford graduate student Zhi Wei Seh shows how he prepares prototype batteries in SLAC's energy storage laboratory.

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Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale

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Stanford researcher Thomas F. Jaramillo has been named SUNCAT’s new deputy director for experiments. He succeeds SLAC’s Anders Nilsson.

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SLAC Research Reveals Rapid DNA Changes that Act as Molecular Sunscreen

Illustration showing a thymine molecule, DNA helix and the sun.
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X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties. 

X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.