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X-rays uncover a hidden property that leads to failure in a lithium-ion battery material

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

X-ray experiments at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have revealed that the pathways lithium ions take through a common battery material are more complex than previously thought.

Journal: Nature Materials

Tais Gorkhover wins LCLS Young Investigator Award for pioneering novel X-ray imaging methods

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Tais Gorkhover, a principal investigator with the Stanford PULSE Institute, will receive the 2018 LCLS Young Investigator Award, granted to early-career scientists in recognition of exceptional research using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Graham George receives Lytle Award for contributions to X-ray absorption spectroscopy

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Graham Neil George, professor and Canada Research Chair in X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) at the University of Saskatchewan, has been chosen to receive the 2018 Farrel W. Lytle Award for his outstanding contributions to synchrotron science at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Berkeley Lab, Intel, Cray harness power of deep learning to study the universe

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A collaboration between computational scientists at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and engineers at Intel and Cray has yielded another first in the quest to apply deep learning to data-intensive science: CosmoFlow, the first large-scale science application to use the TensorFlow framework on a CPU-based HPC platform with synchronous training.

Chuntian Cao wins 2018 Klein Award for lithium-ion battery research

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Chuntian Cao, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, discovered her passion for batteries in graduate school. She says she loves studying something that's so closely related to everyday life. In her current research, she probes lithium-ion battery materials and devices using SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, or SSRL.

Q&A: Shining X-ray light on perovskites for better solar cells

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Four scientists discuss X-ray experiments at SLAC's synchrotron that reveal new insights into how a promising solar cell material forms.

Getting a charge out of MOFs

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have made a metal organic framework (MOF) with the highest electron charge mobilities ever observed, along with a technique to improve the conductivity of other MOFs.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

How SLAC's 'electronics artists' enable cutting-edge science

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A team of 12 design engineers develop application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, for X-ray science, particle physics and other research areas at SLAC. Their custom chips are tailored to extract meaningful features from signals collected in the lab's experiments and turn them into digital signals that can be further analyzed.

Infrared beams show cell types in a different light

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

By shining highly focused infrared light on living cells, scientists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hope to unmask individual cell identities, and to diagnose whether the cells are diseased or healthy.

Report confirms wind technology advancements continue to drive down wind energy prices

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wind energy pricing remains attractive, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). At an average of around 2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), prices offered by newly built wind projects in the United States are being driven lower by technology advancements and cost reductions.

Funder: Department of Energy

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