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Martin Z. Bazant E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering Digital Learning Officer Professor of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 66-458 Cambridge, MA 02139 Email: bazant at mit.edu Administrative Assistant: Osama Joesph-Irabor Email: ojirabor at mit.edu

Introduction		Research		Group		Teaching		Publications		Talks

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What's New

• Research:
  • Pixel-by-pixel analysis yields insights into lithium-ion batteries
  • MIT features new analysis technique to improve Li-ion battery design - Q&A Overview
  • Google Scholar, Highly Cited Researcher

• Passages:
  • On July 23, 2024, Debbie Zhuang defended her Ph.D. thesis, Degradation Mechanisms and Applications in Ion Intercalation Materials.
  • On May 2, 2024, Harry Qiaohao Liang defended his Ph.D. thesis, Physics-based and data-driven modeling of multi-active material electrode batteries.
  • Dimitrios Fraggedakis (PhD '21) joined the faculty of chemical engineering at Princeton
  • Juner Zhu, Juhyun Song, Tao Gao and Zongyu Gu also recently grew our academic family

• Teaching:
  • 10.50x Analysis of Transport Phenomena (Award-winning series of 9 MOOCs)
  • Math Boot Camp for Engineers (MIT News)
  • 10.S95x Physics of COVID-19 Transmission
  • 10.626 Electrochemical Energy Systems (from 2014, to be updated in 2023)

• Organizations:
  • Fellow, Electrochemical Society
  • President, International Electrokinetics Society
  • Director, Center for Battery Sustainability
  • Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Lithios, Inc.

• Publications:
  • Unified quantum theory of electrochemical kinetics by coupled ion-electron transfer (discussion of the paper)
  • Learning heterogeneous reaction kinetics from X-ray movies pixel-by-pixel
  • Electrochemical methods for water purification, ion separations and energy conversion
  • Selective and chemical-free removal of toxic heavy metal cations from water using shock ion extraction
  • Interfacial resistive switching by multiphase polarization in ion-intercalation nanofilms

• Lectures:
  • Learning Battery Physics from Images
  • Beyond Six Feet: A Guideline to Limit Indoor Airborne Transmission of COVID-19

• Software:
  • COVID-19 Indoor Safety Guideline
  • MPET: Multiphase Porous Electrode Theory
  • EDIP: Environment Dependent Interatomic Potential

(hits since 2002 @ MIT Math)