In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to...
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Stanford postdoctoral researcher Stephen Dongmin Kang, left, demonstrates how he works at a modular glovebox workstation while Stanford postdoc Jungjin Park works at a...
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Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works in the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC.
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New battery electrolyte may boost the performance of electric vehicles
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