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FY19 ANNUAL REPORT

How to see what’s happening inside a battery without disturbing it. Materials science researcher Eric Sorte focused on fuel-cell components, working on new ideas for energy-storage- device components, such as fuel cell membranes and batteries. The focus of the LDRD project was to develop new in-situ nuclear magnetic resonance technologies to monitor and diagnose batteries during charge and discharge cycles without having to tear them apart. That work continues via a new Grand Challenge LDRD, focused on customized lithium batteries, that started in the fall of 2019.

Below: Sandia materials scientist Eric Sorte is working to help battery researchers understand what goes on in a battery during operation.

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