Materials science

SLAC scientists are among the researchers to receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy.

Rapid Charging and Draining Doesn’t Damage Lithium Ion Electrode as Much as Thought

By observing how hydrogen is absorbed into individual palladium nanocubes, Stanford materials scientists have detailed a key step in storing energy and information in nanomaterials.

Experiment Shows Potential of X-ray Laser to Study Complex, Poorly Understood Materials

  Scientists Craft Two Exotic Forms of Carbon into a Molecule for Steering Electron Flow

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

SIMES Researcher Developed Innovative Printing Process

X-ray Studies will Explore Hybrid Materials for Solar Energy, Efficient Lighting and Other Uses

Laser-timing Tool Works at the Speed of Electrons

SLAC, Stanford Advance Will Benefit Thousands of Computational Studies in Wide Range of Fields

Researchers from Oxford, SIMES and Berkeley Lab say cadmium arsenide could yield practical devices with the same extraordinary electronic properties as 2-D graphene.

In a recent experiment at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, scientists "tickled" atoms to explore the flow of heat and energy across materials at ultrasmall scales.