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In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to...
![Illustration of oxygen atoms leaving a lithium-ion battery as lithium flows in alongside a battery whose energy is being sapped by this process](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lithium_ion_oxygen_migration_la_final.jpg?h=32f6f5da&itok=E5SJYfqm)
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![Public Lecture | Improving Batteries from the Atoms Up presented by Yijin Liu](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/public_lecture_feb2021_hd.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=7JnEIrjv)
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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.
In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to...