The SPS Observer
The magazine of the Society of Physics Students
Spring 2022
About the cover
In a collaboration between Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MIT, and other institutions, researchers are using AI to better understand why batteries wear out. This is an artist’s rendition of a particle analyzed by a combination of machine learning, X-ray images, and electron microscopy. For details on this research, see
doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01191-0. Image by Ella Maru Studio.
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