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Jan 25 2022 | Stanford Engineering
The inaugural VinFuture Prize has selected Zhenan Bao, the K. K. Lee Professor in the School of Engineering and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, the winner of its Female Innovator award, a $500,000 prize dedicated to an outstanding female researcher or innovator.
Jan 6 2022 | SLAC
Cryo-EM snapshots of the solid-electrolyte interphase, or SEI, reveal its natural swollen state and offer a new approach to lithium-metal battery design. BY GLENNDA CHUI Lithium metal batteries could store much more charge in a given space than today’s lithium-ion batteries, and the race is on to...
Nov 8 2021 | Stanford News
Stanford researchers use one of the most sophisticated structural biology techniques available to investigate how molecular assembly lines maintain their precise control while shepherding growing molecules through a complex, multi-step construction process. BY REBECCA MCCLELLAN Every cell is a...
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Sep 27 2021 | Chemical & Engineering News
  With the exception of the Arthur C. Cope Scholars, recipients will be honored at ACS Spring 2022 by Alexandra A. Taylor
Sep 15 2021 | SLAC
Much like crystallizing rock candy from sugar syrup, the new method grows 2D perovskites precisely layered with other 2D materials to produce crystals with a wide range of electronic properties. BY GLENNDA CHUI Stacking extremely thin films of material on top of each other can create new materials...
Yi Cui, Stanford materials science professor and director of Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy. (Credit: Feng Pan)
Sep 8 2021 | Stanford Energy
By Mark Golden Yi Cui, director of Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, won the 2021 Global Energy Prize for new energy applications, one of three Global Energy Prizes given annually. The award cites Cui’s “exceptional contributions in nanomaterials design, synthesis and...
Aug 25 2021 | Stanford News
 A new type of rechargeable alkali metal-chlorine battery developed at Stanford holds six times more electricity than the commercially available rechargeable lithium-ion batteries commonly used today. BY ANDREW MYERS An international team of researchers led by Stanford University has developed...
For these experiments, the research team (left to right: Xiaozhe Shen, Pedro Nunes, Jie Yang and Xijie Wang) used SLAC’s MeV-UED, a high-speed “electron camera” that uses a powerful beam of electrons to detect subtle molecular movements in samples. (Dawn Harmer/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Aug 25 2021 | SLAC
The work sheds light on the web of hydrogen bonds that gives water its strange properties, which play a vital role in many chemical and biological processes. BY ALI SUNDERMIER
Green Ahn
Aug 5 2021
Congratulations to Green Ahn on the ACS WCC/Merck Research Award!  Green is a fourth year graduate student in the Bertozzi Group and her research focuses on targeted degradation of extracellular proteins via lysosome targeting chimeras (LYTACs). 
Benjamin Snyder (right) and his former PhD adviser, Edward Solomon, a professor of chemistry at Stanford and of photon science at SLAC. (Image credit: Linda A. Cicero)
Jul 19 2021 | Stanford Energy
By Andrew Myers A “tantalizing” principle borrowed from nature turns harmful methane into useful methanol at room temperature. A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Leuven in Belgium has further elucidated the process in a new study in the current edition of Science.

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