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Category: Materials Sciences

Why Do Batteries Sometimes Catch Fire and Explode?

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Accelerating Sustainable Semiconductors With ‘Multielement Ink’

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New Consortium to Make Batteries for Electric Vehicles More Sustainable

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How Scientists Are Accelerating Next-Gen Microelectronics

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The National Academy of Sciences Elects Two Berkeley Lab Researchers

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Research on Light Emission From Black Phosphorus Hints at New Applications

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Scientists Create a Longer-Lasting Exciton that May Open New Possibilities in Quantum Information Science

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Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future

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Darleane Hoffman and Gabor Somorjai Receive the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award

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A Day in the Half-Life

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On the Road to Better Solid-State Batteries

Scanning transmission electron microscope images reveal the elemental distribution in a “disordered” solid electrolyte.