@cabanachemistry.bsky.social
We conduct research in inorganic solid-state chemistry at University of Illinois Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. Currently geeking about electrochemistry. Group posts, curated by Jordi.
“CAISO has overseen a massive build-out of new energy and storage resources, including more than 26,000 megawatts of new capacity overall, which has also helped make the grid more stable, Mainzer said. The state hasn’t seen rolling blackouts since 2020.”
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“Regardless of the choice of the convergence criterion, the results indicate that a representative volume of the composite electrode contains 100 to 1,000 NMC particles.”
Important insight! #battchat
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23.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Probably not the most quoted portion of this podcast, but good point about the future of higher education in the era of AI, and the inevitable hype 🧪
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1. To opinions! Solar is the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it being built if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places are grid access, permitting, and sometimes installation labour.
20.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 248 🔁 71 💬 4 📌 13
(1/x) Excited to report VIPS (Volumetric imaging of biological specimens via photochemical sectioning) @science.org! VIPS uses light-based sample sectioning to eliminate the inherent imaging depth limit of high-resolution optical microscopes @supgokul.bsky.social: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
17.10.2025 11:06 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
The Gao lab at #UIC reports a breakthrough in volumetric fluorescence imaging, featured on the cover of Science Magazine!
Their new technique, VIPS (Volumetric Imaging via Photochemical Sectioning), enables reconstruction of 3D images of whole tissues with unprecedented detail.
“I can tell you exactly why science struggles to reproduce its own findings: we built incentives that reward novelty and punish verification.” 🧪
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11.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s because Inorganic Chemistry is… ahem… a Big Tent
08.10.2025 23:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Michel was integral to the energy storage department at BerkeleyLab when our group started there. He was a thoughtful and caring leader, and a strong advocate of early career scientists. He will be missed. Rest in peace
08.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Inorganic Materials for the win! Congratulations!
08.10.2025 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL
How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
And are we really going to use EV batteries for this? #battchat
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Is the R&D landscape in the US going through major organizational changes? Is blue-sky discovery shifting back to the private sector, after decades of dominance at universities and National Labs? The levels of investment in single SDL startups are impressive! 🧪
01.10.2025 01:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“[T]hat […] used to be an argument against electric vehicles and saying, no, if you really let consumers pick, they won't pick these. And then now, it's an argument for, let the consumer decide, open it up, see what happens.” #battchat
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“They suggest that there is excessive concentration on testing and producing deliverables, neglecting the equally important process of being generative, open, interdisciplinary and improvisational”🧪
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Congratulations to Neelam Sunariwal and the other winners of the poster awards at the 7th Battery and Energy Storage Conference by AIChE! Take a look at her poster in the picture if you want to know more about her work, and reach out if you have questions
26.09.2025 22:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The biggest research questions in energy storage no longer have to do with EVs.
Unpopular opinion? #battchat
New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me.
Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?
“Forced outages of gas and coal plants were 50-100% higher on a majority of days in July and August this summer compared to 2024.
Solar and a “higher discharge of Energy Storage Resources (ESRs)” filled most of the gap.”
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“Batteries push investment into flexibility, smooth demand peaks, and keep the grid stable at lower cost. They will be the foundation of a power system that can deliver abundant electricity, with reliability built in, rather than as an afterthought” #battchat
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Congratulations!! 🍾
18.09.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0H/t @bloomberg.com BNEF @electricfelix.bsky.social
12.09.2025 13:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Let’s take a step back and think about how we would have felt 10 years ago if we were told this was going to be possible:
“By Q4, China's EV sales will overtake total US vehicle sales of all types (gasoline, hybrid, battery electric combined).”
And with LFP batteries!
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“Although administrative and regulatory compliance work can be vital aspects of research, the time spent by researchers on such activities continues to increase because of a dramatic rise in regulations, policies, and requirements over time.” 🧪
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“What’s perhaps most interesting is that both China and the United States have slipped far down the list. Their change in per capita generation over those three years was basically equal”
10.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some attempt at possible answers here. Do read the original article, though!
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Are new forms of institution the only way forward to accelerate US research? Would we be leaving $20 bills on the sidewalk if that’s all we did?
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