In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.