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Lithium-ion batteries power everything from cell phones to laptops
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Brian Long/UCSB
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Matt Perko
The Interactive Learning Pavilion, opened in 2023, is UCSB’s first all electric facility.
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Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array
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Matt Perko
The scanning ultrafast electron microscope in the Bolin Liao lab
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Alternatives to silicon-based solar cells could allow solar panel production to move out of cleanrooms like this.
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Tweaks to farming practices could preserve some of California’s declining water resources.