1. Power Anywhere Michael Sullivan Princeton High School
STEM, Grades 10 & 11
New Technologies
A Global Need
Ideas We Can Use
Electrons & Magnets
Ohm’s Law
Mechanical Advantage
Creative Problem Solving
Whether beset by storms, poverty, war, displacement, or just travel away from buildings, access to electricity is not guaranteed.
Photograph (Magdeburg, Germany, 2007:
Sebastian Vandrey, CC BY 2.0
graphene in 3D
laser spectroscopy
UC’s NanoWorld is working to develop batteries that last all week and charge in seconds, and I got to be part of that!
LiS batteries are the future of portable power. They will power cars, planes, phones, computers, and perhaps even houses.
J. Electrochem. Soc vol. 162 no. 6 A982-A990
Blackouts & brownouts
affect everyone! For us, they
are an inconvenience, but for
many others they can be
life-threatening.
RET is funded by the National Science Foundation, grant # EEC
Michael B. Sullivan