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SIMES researchers study complex, novel materials that could transform the energy landscape by making computing much more efficient or transmitting power over long distances with no loss, for instance.

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Polarons, bubbles of distortion in a perovskite lattice.

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SLAC study shows the so-called ‘pseudogap’ hoards electrons that otherwise might pair up to carry current through a material with 100 percent efficiency.

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A study at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests for the first time how scientists might deliberately engineer superconductors that work...

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Ultimate Goal: A Super-efficient Way to Conduct Electricity at Room Temperature

SLAC Staff Scientist Wei-sheng Lee
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SLAC scientists are among the researchers to receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy.

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

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

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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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SIMES Researcher Developed Innovative Printing Process

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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

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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