James Le Houx
@thebeamline.bsky.social
Materials Engineer | Energy Storage Scientist | Beamline Tinkerer
Emerging Leader Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory/ The Faraday Institution. He/him.
All views are my own.
Emerging Leader Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory/ The Faraday Institution. He/him.
All views are my own.
Played around with Meta's new SAM 3 on our X-ray data today.
Top: Our manually trained U-Net (accurate but slow). Bottom: SAM 3 out-of-the-box ("white objects").
It misses some outliers, but getting 90% of the way there with zero training is a win for high-throughput workflows.
#Science #AI
Top: Our manually trained U-Net (accurate but slow). Bottom: SAM 3 out-of-the-box ("white objects").
It misses some outliers, but getting 90% of the way there with zero training is a win for high-throughput workflows.
#Science #AI
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Huge congrats to Harriet Jones for winning best poster at #IBSim-4i!
She's leading our project adapting #code_saturne for on-the-fly simulation from CT data enabling autonomous workflows.
Thx judges & sponsor #3Dmagination!
#IBSim4i #Simulation #Physics #CFD #AutonomousScience #chemsky #BattChat
She's leading our project adapting #code_saturne for on-the-fly simulation from CT data enabling autonomous workflows.
Thx judges & sponsor #3Dmagination!
#IBSim4i #Simulation #Physics #CFD #AutonomousScience #chemsky #BattChat
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Huge congrats to Harriet Jones for winning best poster at #IBSim-4i!
She's leading our project adapting #code_saturne for on-the-fly simulation from CT data enabling autonomous workflows.
Thx judges & sponsor #3Dmagination!
#IBSim4i #Simulation #Physics #CFD #AutonomousScience #chemsky #BattChat
She's leading our project adapting #code_saturne for on-the-fly simulation from CT data enabling autonomous workflows.
Thx judges & sponsor #3Dmagination!
#IBSim4i #Simulation #Physics #CFD #AutonomousScience #chemsky #BattChat
At PorTo, ILL's new beamline, tackling Li-ion failure: electrolyte consumption, interlayer buckling, & overcharge.
Running high-res neutron imaging + multi-modal (X-ray/Neutron) correlation & unsupervised AI.
Thx Bratislav Lukić!
#Liion #ILL #CorrelativeImaging #DataScience #chemsky #BattChat
Running high-res neutron imaging + multi-modal (X-ray/Neutron) correlation & unsupervised AI.
Thx Bratislav Lukić!
#Liion #ILL #CorrelativeImaging #DataScience #chemsky #BattChat
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
At PorTo, ILL's new beamline, tackling Li-ion failure: electrolyte consumption, interlayer buckling, & overcharge.
Running high-res neutron imaging + multi-modal (X-ray/Neutron) correlation & unsupervised AI.
Thx Bratislav Lukić!
#Liion #ILL #CorrelativeImaging #DataScience #chemsky #BattChat
Running high-res neutron imaging + multi-modal (X-ray/Neutron) correlation & unsupervised AI.
Thx Bratislav Lukić!
#Liion #ILL #CorrelativeImaging #DataScience #chemsky #BattChat
ACS Spring 2026 abstract deadline: September 29th!
We're chairing a new session in Atlanta. If you use large-scale facilities to study energy storage materials with photons, neutrons, muons, or lasers, we want to hear from you.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/4e3envar
#chemsky #research #ACSSpring2026
We're chairing a new session in Atlanta. If you use large-scale facilities to study energy storage materials with photons, neutrons, muons, or lasers, we want to hear from you.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/4e3envar
#chemsky #research #ACSSpring2026
ACS Spring 2026 - American Chemical Society
callforabstracts.acs.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
ACS Spring 2026 abstract deadline: September 29th!
We're chairing a new session in Atlanta. If you use large-scale facilities to study energy storage materials with photons, neutrons, muons, or lasers, we want to hear from you.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/4e3envar
#chemsky #research #ACSSpring2026
We're chairing a new session in Atlanta. If you use large-scale facilities to study energy storage materials with photons, neutrons, muons, or lasers, we want to hear from you.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/4e3envar
#chemsky #research #ACSSpring2026
Reposted by James Le Houx
EIS ice baby
New ideas can be found in the intersection between battery science and planetary science.
Myself and @thebeamline.bsky.social are exploring how ice microstructure will impact radar measurements on Europa using tomography and EIS.
#Europa #icymoons #planetaryscience #tomography
🧪
New ideas can be found in the intersection between battery science and planetary science.
Myself and @thebeamline.bsky.social are exploring how ice microstructure will impact radar measurements on Europa using tomography and EIS.
#Europa #icymoons #planetaryscience #tomography
🧪
September 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
EIS ice baby
New ideas can be found in the intersection between battery science and planetary science.
Myself and @thebeamline.bsky.social are exploring how ice microstructure will impact radar measurements on Europa using tomography and EIS.
#Europa #icymoons #planetaryscience #tomography
🧪
New ideas can be found in the intersection between battery science and planetary science.
Myself and @thebeamline.bsky.social are exploring how ice microstructure will impact radar measurements on Europa using tomography and EIS.
#Europa #icymoons #planetaryscience #tomography
🧪
In-situ dark field X-ray microscopy of solid state batteries this week. Seriously challenging experiment, thank you to the whole team at ID03 @esrf.fr
September 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
In-situ dark field X-ray microscopy of solid state batteries this week. Seriously challenging experiment, thank you to the whole team at ID03 @esrf.fr
The classic problem with the weakest link is that when you fix it, you just create a new one.
We saw this happen in real-time with solid-state batteries. Our new preprint shows how fixing one interface just moves the failure to the next weakest spot. 1/6
Paper link: doi.org/10.26434/che...
We saw this happen in real-time with solid-state batteries. Our new preprint shows how fixing one interface just moves the failure to the next weakest spot. 1/6
Paper link: doi.org/10.26434/che...
Operando X-ray Computed Tomography Reveals the Role of Interfacial Nucleation Nanolayers in Suppressing Mechanical Failure in Zero-Excess Lithium All-Solid-State Batteries
Lithium metal (LM) and zero-excess lithium (ZE) anodes offer pathways to increase the energy density of all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs). We employ operando X-ray computed tomography (XCT) combined w...
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The classic problem with the weakest link is that when you fix it, you just create a new one.
We saw this happen in real-time with solid-state batteries. Our new preprint shows how fixing one interface just moves the failure to the next weakest spot. 1/6
Paper link: doi.org/10.26434/che...
We saw this happen in real-time with solid-state batteries. Our new preprint shows how fixing one interface just moves the failure to the next weakest spot. 1/6
Paper link: doi.org/10.26434/che...
What do solid-state batteries & plant roots have in common?
Excited to share our new article in @theconversation.com written with my collaborator Siul Ruiz. We dive into the powerful mechanics roots use to navigate tough soils, vital for our food security. 1/4
theconversation.com/natures-unde...
Excited to share our new article in @theconversation.com written with my collaborator Siul Ruiz. We dive into the powerful mechanics roots use to navigate tough soils, vital for our food security. 1/4
theconversation.com/natures-unde...
Nature’s underground engineers: how plant roots could save harvests from drought
Plant roots don’t just take from soil; they shape it.
theconversation.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What do solid-state batteries & plant roots have in common?
Excited to share our new article in @theconversation.com written with my collaborator Siul Ruiz. We dive into the powerful mechanics roots use to navigate tough soils, vital for our food security. 1/4
theconversation.com/natures-unde...
Excited to share our new article in @theconversation.com written with my collaborator Siul Ruiz. We dive into the powerful mechanics roots use to navigate tough soils, vital for our food security. 1/4
theconversation.com/natures-unde...
Pocket coffee for those 4am beamtimes
July 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Pocket coffee for those 4am beamtimes
Pretty exciting beamtime at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social I13-2 this week. We're going from manual sample centering to a fully automated process with a Yasakawa arm, hitting 150 battery samples a day and swapping optics from nm to µm resolution.
July 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Pretty exciting beamtime at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social I13-2 this week. We're going from manual sample centering to a fully automated process with a Yasakawa arm, hitting 150 battery samples a day and swapping optics from nm to µm resolution.
How do plant roots push through hard soil? Our new paper in npj Biological Physics and Mechanics uses X-rays to watch it happen. This new view can help us breed more resilient crops for a changing climate.🌾 #SoilScience #Agriculture
tinyurl.com/5mdkrk3e @pereralj.bsky.social @tiinaroose.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5mdkrk3e @pereralj.bsky.social @tiinaroose.bsky.social
Coupled X-ray imaging/diffraction reveals soil mechanics during analogous root growth - npj Biological Physics and Mechanics
npj Biological Physics and Mechanics - Coupled X-ray imaging/diffraction reveals soil mechanics during analogous root growth
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July 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How do plant roots push through hard soil? Our new paper in npj Biological Physics and Mechanics uses X-rays to watch it happen. This new view can help us breed more resilient crops for a changing climate.🌾 #SoilScience #Agriculture
tinyurl.com/5mdkrk3e @pereralj.bsky.social @tiinaroose.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5mdkrk3e @pereralj.bsky.social @tiinaroose.bsky.social
Well that's incredibly satisfying, new refactored code building and running a CI/CD pipeline in Github Actions. Only took 165 trys.....
April 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Well that's incredibly satisfying, new refactored code building and running a CI/CD pipeline in Github Actions. Only took 165 trys.....
Signs of life again....Watch this space
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Signs of life again....Watch this space
Harwell, home of the endangered bee orchid. Always impressed by the work of the conservationist team on site led by Bill Temple, looking forward to seeing them flower
April 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Harwell, home of the endangered bee orchid. Always impressed by the work of the conservationist team on site led by Bill Temple, looking forward to seeing them flower
Want a summer internship at Rutherford Appleton Lab? 🇬🇧 UK undergrads: learn battery characterisation, work with large science facilities & get hands-on exp with Gabriel Pérez & me!
🚨 Deadline April 14th (1 week left!) Apply: tinyurl.com/3trmeahp
#STEMcareers #Internship #RAL #UKStudents
🚨 Deadline April 14th (1 week left!) Apply: tinyurl.com/3trmeahp
#STEMcareers #Internship #RAL #UKStudents
FUSE Summer Placement in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England
To apply for this placement, we are looking for the following: Essential:
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April 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Want a summer internship at Rutherford Appleton Lab? 🇬🇧 UK undergrads: learn battery characterisation, work with large science facilities & get hands-on exp with Gabriel Pérez & me!
🚨 Deadline April 14th (1 week left!) Apply: tinyurl.com/3trmeahp
#STEMcareers #Internship #RAL #UKStudents
🚨 Deadline April 14th (1 week left!) Apply: tinyurl.com/3trmeahp
#STEMcareers #Internship #RAL #UKStudents
One of those days today
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
One of those days today
NEW PAPER ALERT! Ahem sorry for shouting.
5 XCT, 2 XRD-CT datasets, all from the same 13X Zeolite pellet.
Designed to train: super resolution models (SR-GANs), DNNs for reconstruction, CNNs for image segmentation and data fusion of heterogeneous datasets.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #ML
5 XCT, 2 XRD-CT datasets, all from the same 13X Zeolite pellet.
Designed to train: super resolution models (SR-GANs), DNNs for reconstruction, CNNs for image segmentation and data fusion of heterogeneous datasets.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #ML
Three-dimensional, multimodal synchrotron data for machine learning applications - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Three-dimensional, multimodal synchrotron data for machine learning applications
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
NEW PAPER ALERT! Ahem sorry for shouting.
5 XCT, 2 XRD-CT datasets, all from the same 13X Zeolite pellet.
Designed to train: super resolution models (SR-GANs), DNNs for reconstruction, CNNs for image segmentation and data fusion of heterogeneous datasets.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #ML
5 XCT, 2 XRD-CT datasets, all from the same 13X Zeolite pellet.
Designed to train: super resolution models (SR-GANs), DNNs for reconstruction, CNNs for image segmentation and data fusion of heterogeneous datasets.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #ML
@helenczerski.bsky.social Very immersive writing Helen
February 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
@helenczerski.bsky.social Very immersive writing Helen
Need to figure out a less muddy cycle to RAL....
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Need to figure out a less muddy cycle to RAL....
Impressed by the ambition and scope of the Clean Energy 2030 Action Plan.
One thing I noticed missing is the energy capacity for LDES and batteries. A number of technologies decouple power and energy (flow batteries, pumped hydro, compressed air) and so just giving power isn't enough detail.
One thing I noticed missing is the energy capacity for LDES and batteries. A number of technologies decouple power and energy (flow batteries, pumped hydro, compressed air) and so just giving power isn't enough detail.
January 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Impressed by the ambition and scope of the Clean Energy 2030 Action Plan.
One thing I noticed missing is the energy capacity for LDES and batteries. A number of technologies decouple power and energy (flow batteries, pumped hydro, compressed air) and so just giving power isn't enough detail.
One thing I noticed missing is the energy capacity for LDES and batteries. A number of technologies decouple power and energy (flow batteries, pumped hydro, compressed air) and so just giving power isn't enough detail.
Rietveld! GNNs! PDF! GANs!
If these things mean something to you (or if you'd like to learn more) tune in on Wednesday (2pm GMT) for the next Faraday masterclass.
Led by Andy Sode Anker, we'll be delving into how to use AI/ML methods to analyse scattering and spectroscopic data.
lnkd.in/e8qFJvD5
If these things mean something to you (or if you'd like to learn more) tune in on Wednesday (2pm GMT) for the next Faraday masterclass.
Led by Andy Sode Anker, we'll be delving into how to use AI/ML methods to analyse scattering and spectroscopic data.
lnkd.in/e8qFJvD5
Faraday Masterclass: Machine Learning/AI analysis methods for scattering/ | LinkedIn
Faraday Masterclass series with expert presenters from the field of battery technology and energy storage. Join our 45th Faraday Masterclass on Machine Learning/AI analysis methods for scattering/spec...
lnkd.in
December 10, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Rietveld! GNNs! PDF! GANs!
If these things mean something to you (or if you'd like to learn more) tune in on Wednesday (2pm GMT) for the next Faraday masterclass.
Led by Andy Sode Anker, we'll be delving into how to use AI/ML methods to analyse scattering and spectroscopic data.
lnkd.in/e8qFJvD5
If these things mean something to you (or if you'd like to learn more) tune in on Wednesday (2pm GMT) for the next Faraday masterclass.
Led by Andy Sode Anker, we'll be delving into how to use AI/ML methods to analyse scattering and spectroscopic data.
lnkd.in/e8qFJvD5
Reposted by James Le Houx
New PhD position on the computational design of biopolymers electrolytes for Na-ion batteries. It will be supervised by Dr. Lu Xing at Northumbria with co-supervision from Dr. Ioan Magdau and myself! 🔋
Reposts appreciated!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@chemistryncl.bsky.social
Reposts appreciated!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@chemistryncl.bsky.social
Innovative Biopolymer Electrolytes with Enhanced Sodium-Ion Conductivity for Sustainable Battery Solutions (ReNU+24/EE/MCE/XING) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Innovative Biopolymer Electrolytes with Enhanced Sodium-Ion Conductivity for Sustainable Battery Solutions (ReNU+24/EE/MCE/XING) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:21 PM
New PhD position on the computational design of biopolymers electrolytes for Na-ion batteries. It will be supervised by Dr. Lu Xing at Northumbria with co-supervision from Dr. Ioan Magdau and myself! 🔋
Reposts appreciated!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@chemistryncl.bsky.social
Reposts appreciated!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@chemistryncl.bsky.social