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Basic energy science

Research

Manufacturing consumer products

A greener way to make raw materials

Protecting our energy infrastructure

New analysis targets cybersafety

Understanding how plants use sunlight

Possible pathway to more biomass and crops

Fabrication of new materials

Designing “recipes” using artificial intelligence

Converting greenhouse gas into fuel

New catalyst provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions

Novel metallic gels that fluoresce

Color-coded sensors with a range of energy applications

Thermophotovoltaics

Enabling efficient energy generation

Batteryless energy harvester

Running electronics on body heat

Projects

[MITEI Seed] Earth black body radiation (BBR) PV cells: Independent low-cost and high-performance earth BBR PV cells

Non-linear model velocity estimation for seismic inversion

Safe solid-state batteries

Publications

Stress Transmission and Failure in Disordered Porous Media

August 2017

Tuning of Silver Catalyst Mesostructure Promotes Selective Carbon Dioxide Conversion into Fuels

November 2016

A high-resolution and large force-range load cell by means of nonlinear cantilever beams

January 2016

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Harnessing geothermal energy

GBH Forum Network

Paul Woskov (Plasma Science and Fusion Center) is developing a method for converting coal and gas electric power plants by drilling geothermal wells to replace the fossil fuels. He joins "Science for the Public" to discuss geothermal energy and the challenges associated with accessing it.
Porous materials designed to trap molecules

Controlling pore openings for maximum capture

Turning carbon dioxide into valuable products

DNA can help guide the process

People

Alfredo Alexander-Katz
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Robert Armstrong
Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, emeritus, and Former Director
Department of Chemical Engineering; MIT Energy Initiative
Edmundo Blankschtein
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Richard Braatz
Richard Braatz
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Fikile Brushett
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Sylvia Ceyer
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Joseph Checkelsky
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
Robert Cohen
Robert Cohen
Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemical Engineering
David Darmofal
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Erik Demaine
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Laurent Demanet
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Xuanlai Fang
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dennis Frenchman
Professor
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Nuh Gedik
Professor
Department of Physics
Ahmed Ghoniem
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Michael Howland
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jeremiah Johnson
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Ruben Juanes
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Randolph Kirchain
Principal Research Scientist
Materials Research Laboratory
Heather Kulik
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Youssef Marzouk
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Tomás Palacios
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Giuseppe Romano
Research Scientist
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Caroline Ross
Professor of Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Gregory Rutledge
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Donald Sadoway
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Zachary Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Zoltan Spakovszky
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Yogesh Surendranath
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Cemal Tasan
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Troy Van Voorhis
Department Head and Professor
Department of Chemistry
Kalyan Veeramachaneni
Principal Research Scientist
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Guiyan Zang
Research Lead
MIT Energy Initiative

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