Batteries power everything from the phone in your pocket to grid-scale energy storage, and their technology has advanced dramatically over the years. Developing reliable and efficient energy materials is crucial to this progress. For the past 30 years, the Advanced Light Source has played a key role in revolutionizing battery and energy materials research, enabling breakthroughs that drive innovation.

In this episode, we talk with Ethan Crumlin, a staff scientist and program lead specializing in battery chemistry and characterization. His work supports the development of reliable and efficient energy materials. We explore the history of the Advanced Light Source in advancing characterization techniques and discuss the groundbreaking capabilities that will drive research after the ALS upgrade.

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Ethan Crumlin, the Division Deputy for Science in the chemical sciences division and a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. Crumlin leads a program that studies energy storage and conversion materials such as fuel cells, electrolyzers, catalysts, and batteries using advanced techniques.