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Sodium-ion battery safety research: Advancing the next generation of energy storage technology

News Article, June 25, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Battery Abuse Testing Lab, the Department of Energy’s core facility for battery safety, is investigating the safety of sodium-ion battery technology. Due to sodium’s abundance and an electrochemistry that resembles lithium-ion batteries in some ways, sodium-ion batteries are being considered for grid storage and automotive applications. The...

Stunning discovery: Metals can heal themselves

News Article, August 8, 2023 • Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it could usher in an engineering revolution — one in which self-healing engines, bridges and airplanes...
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Ultrafast beam-steering breakthrough at Sandia Labs

News Article, March 28, 2023 •  In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources. This ability to control light using a semiconductor device could allow low-power, relatively inexpensive sources like LEDs...
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Using X-ray science to hit hydrogen storage targets

News Article, November 7, 2023 • Using soft X-ray techniques available through Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), a Sandia team including Mark Allendorf and Farid El Gabaly with collaborators from the Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC) are probing the chemistry of promising hydrogen storage materials to understand how they absorb and release hydrogen. The...

Video: Validating models for safety codes and standards

News Article, May 10, 2024 • Earlier this year, a test series at Sandia collected data to validate the models used for hydrogen safety codes and standards. Go behind the scenes with the research team who ran the test with partners from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and support from US DOE Office of Energy Efficiency...
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