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Our faculty and students research the infinitesimally small to achieve breakthroughs of global significance, working at the atomic and molecular levels to create the microscopic devices and systems essential for cutting-edge solar energy production, energy storage, information technology and medicine.

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Stanford engineers use rust to build a solar-powered battery

Heating simple metal oxides, like rust, could become the foundation for a solar technology that would make and store electricity by separating the hydrogen and...

Stanford engineers use rust to build a solar-powered battery

Sarah Heilshorn Named AIMBE Fellow

The College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) consists of over 1,500 individuals who are the outstanding...

Perovskites provide big boost to silicon solar cells, Stanford study finds

Putting a film of the crystalline material perovskite on top of a silicon solar cell increases the cell's efficiency nearly 50 percent, say Stanford scientists...

Battery experiments highlight Stanford's dual mission of teaching and research

A Stanford PhD student guides an undergraduate through two years of tests that confound two decades of assumptions on lithium-ion battery design. The findings...

Battery experiments highlight Stanford's dual mission of teaching and research

New fuel-cell materials could pave the way for practical hydrogen-powered cars

Associate Professor Yi Cui's team has developed a stable cobalt-nickel-iron oxide catalyst that splits water continuously for mo

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