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BASE Laboratory

Teaching Beamlines to Think. We build Self-Driving Microscopes at the intersection of AI, Large Scale Facility Science, and Battery Engineering.
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BASE Laboratory

Beamlines for Autonomous Science and Engineering

We are a joint research group between the University of Greenwich and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). We build the software infrastructure to hardwire UK Exascale computing directly to beamlines.

ESME Framework Architecture

⚡ Research Focus

Our work targets the stochastic precursors to battery failure. We replace deterministic testing schedules with autonomous, AI-driven control loops that navigate the search space of material degradation in real-time.

  • Autonomous Control: Reinforcement learning agents for active beamline steering (Diamond Light Source / ISIS).
  • Generative Simulation: Physics-informed diffusion models for surrogate modelling on GH200 hardware.
  • High-Throughput Physics: Massively parallel transport solvers for terabyte-scale tomography.

Levels of Autonomy Scale

📦 The Software & Data Stack

Our code is open-source and developed for Tier-1 National Supercomputing facilities (e.g. Isambard-AI).

Repository Domain Description
OpenImpala ⚛️ Physics Massively parallel solver for transport physics (AMReX/C++). (SoftwareX 2021)
PorousDiff 🧠 GenAI Conditional 3D diffusion for mechanical surrogate modelling.
OperandoCellLibrary 🛠️ Hardware Streamlit library of operando sample environments for battery research. (arXiv 2026)
LiionDB 🔋 Data The community standard database for Li-ion battery parameters (Progress in Energy 2022).
OpenLSR-X 👁️ Vision SRGAN implementation for Synchrotron XCT super-resolution.
BatteryExplorer 📊 Viz 4D interactive dashboard for operando failure analysis.
MultimodalBenchmark 💾 Data Official code for the 3D Multimodal Synchrotron Dataset (Sci. Data 2025).

📢 Opportunities

PhD Studentship: Generative AI for Experimental Control We are recruiting a doctoral candidate to design the predictive engine for the "Self-Driving Microscope."

© 2026 BASE Laboratory | Part of the M34Impact Institute

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  1. OpenImpala OpenImpala Public

    Forked from kramergroup/openImpala

    The official BASE Laboratory development stream of OpenImpala. Massively parallel image-based solver for transport physics. Built on AMReX to turn terabytes of tomography into electrochemical insight.

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  • PorousDiff Public

    Generative Surrogate Modelling for battery electrode microstructures using Conditional 3D Diffusion. Built for Isambard-AI (GH200) to predict mechanical deformation.

    BASE-Laboratory/PorousDiff's past year of commit activity
    Python 1 BSD-3-Clause 0 0 0 Updated Jun 16, 2026
  • OpenImpala Public Forked from kramergroup/openImpala

    The official BASE Laboratory development stream of OpenImpala. Massively parallel image-based solver for transport physics. Built on AMReX to turn terabytes of tomography into electrochemical insight.

    BASE-Laboratory/OpenImpala's past year of commit activity
    C++ 2 BSD-3-Clause 5 67 0 Updated Jun 13, 2026
  • BraggTrack Public

    Semantic 4D grain tracking and failure prediction for operando synchrotron and neutron diffraction using foundation vision models.

    BASE-Laboratory/BraggTrack's past year of commit activity
    Python 1 BSD-3-Clause 0 1 0 Updated May 18, 2026
  • datalab-app-xrayct Public

    An extensible datalab data block for X-ray tomography, enabling FAIR cataloging and remote-compute integration for large-scale battery imaging datasets.

    BASE-Laboratory/datalab-app-xrayct's past year of commit activity
    Python 1 0 1 0 Updated Apr 7, 2026
  • .github Public
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    0 0 0 0 Updated Feb 12, 2026
  • DFXM-Topographic-Origins Public

    Official analysis workflow for the paper "The topographic origin of chemomechanical failure in high-nickel cathodes." Python framework for processing 3D Dark-Field X-ray Microscopy (DFXM) volumes. Quantifies intragranular strain, mosaicity, and GND density to identify failure mechanisms in single-crystal cathodes.

    BASE-Laboratory/DFXM-Topographic-Origins's past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 1 BSD-3-Clause 0 0 0 Updated Feb 11, 2026
  • OperandoCellLibrary Public

    A digital infrastructure registry of operando sample environments for multi-modal battery research. Serves as the hardware ground truth for the Heuristic Operando framework article (arXiv:2601.00851). Maintained by STFC & The Faraday Institution.

    BASE-Laboratory/OperandoCellLibrary's past year of commit activity
    Python 1 BSD-3-Clause 0 0 0 Updated Feb 9, 2026
  • BatteryExplorer Public

    Interactive web dashboard for visualizing 4D operando synchrotron battery data. Built with Streamlit and Dask for terabyte-scale exploration.

    BASE-Laboratory/BatteryExplorer's past year of commit activity
    1 BSD-3-Clause 0 0 0 Updated Jan 16, 2026
  • OpenLSR-X Public Forked from calum-green/OpenLSR-X

    PyTorch Lightning implementation of SRGAN for 3D X-ray tomography. Features stable training for Lab-based and Synchrotron datasets. Lead developer: @calum-green.

    BASE-Laboratory/OpenLSR-X's past year of commit activity
    Python 1 BSD-3-Clause 2 0 0 Updated Jan 12, 2026
  • MultimodalBenchmark Public Forked from calum-green/XCT-XRDCT_Multimodal_Dataset

    Official code companion for the 3D Multimodal Synchrotron Dataset (Scientific Data, 2025). Utilities for training AI models on XCT/XRD-CT fusion and super-resolution tasks. Lead: @calum-green.

    BASE-Laboratory/MultimodalBenchmark's past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 1 BSD-3-Clause 1 0 0 Updated Nov 29, 2024

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