SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Sathya Narayanan Jagadeesan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Photon Science, SLAC
BioSathya is a postdoctoral scholar at SLAC-Stanford Battery Center. He works at the Applied Energy Division of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and jointly with the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research expertise includes fundamental and electrochemical investigations of aqueous energy storage using operando synchrotron X-ray measurements. Sathya strives to increase the storage capacity and cyclability of aqueous batteries for commercial purposes in modern grid-storage applications.
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Thomas Jaramillo
Professor of Chemical Engineering, of Energy Science Engineering, and of Photon Science
On Leave from 10/01/2024 To 06/30/2025BioRecent years have seen unprecedented motivation for the emergence of new energy technologies. Global dependence on fossil fuels, however, will persist until alternate technologies can compete economically. We must develop means to produce energy (or energy carriers) from renewable sources and then convert them to work as efficiently and cleanly as possible. Catalysis is energy conversion, and the Jaramillo laboratory focuses on fundamental catalytic processes occurring on solid-state surfaces in both the production and consumption of energy. Chemical-to-electrical and electrical-to-chemical energy conversion are at the core of the research. Nanoparticles, metals, alloys, sulfides, nitrides, carbides, phosphides, oxides, and biomimetic organo-metallic complexes comprise the toolkit of materials that can help change the energy landscape. Tailoring catalyst surfaces to fit the chemistry is our primary challenge.
