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has acquired a carbon nanotube technology that can significantly improve the power capability of lithium-ion batteries, through an exclusive technology licensing agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). —MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn. Paula Hammond, Bayer Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT.

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MAY 29, 2012

A new report from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change shows the importance of all major nations taking part in global efforts to reduce emissions—and in particular, finds China’s role to be crucial. From 2000 to 2010, China’s energy use grew 130%, up from a growth of 50% the previous decade.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Researchers at MIT, led by associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, say they have found a solution, described recently in the RSC journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The MIT team’s new method would instead use passive coatings on the insides of the pipes that are designed to prevent the hydrates from adhering.

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APRIL 12, 2010

A team of MIT researchers, led by Dr. Angela Belcher, has engineered a common bacteriophage virus (M13) to function as a scaffold to mediate the co-assembly of zinc porphyrins (photosensitizer) and iridium oxide hydrosol clusters (catalyst) for visible light-driven water oxidation. TEM images of the virus-templated IrO 2 nanowires.

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MAY 12, 2010

Nocera (2010) Nickel-borate oxygen-evolving catalyst that functions under benign conditions. Daniel Nocera and his associates have found another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials, that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Mircea Dinc?,

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

A study by a team from the University of Cambridge (UK) and MIT attributes ~8,000 premature mortalities per year to aircraft cruise emissions. Lead author Steven Barrett from MIT notes that there are many uncertainties, including how accurately the model reflects how air travels vertically from high altitudes to low altitudes.

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MARCH 8, 2010

A team of scientists at MIT has discovered and demonstrated a previously unknown phenomenon that creates self-propagating waves with high thermal conductivity and with electric pulses of very high specific power, up to 7 kW/kg. The TNA shows up as a bright coating compared to the nanotubes. Source: Choi et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

liter Power Stroke V-8 turbocharged diesel powering the 2011 Super Duty, which complies with new 2010 federal regulations to reduce NO x levels by more than 80%. That joint research was critical to the development of the aftertreatment system now featured on the 6.7-liter

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JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. An interim report with some of this study’s major findings and recommendations was released in June 2010. Source: IEA.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The headquarters will be located in Silicon Valley near Stanford University, with a second facility to be located near MIT. The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.

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MAY 30, 2010

MIT researchers used modified M13 bacteriophages as templates to assemble noble metal allow nanowires for Li-ion anode materials. An MIT team including Drs. Belcher (2010) Biologically Activated Noble Metal Alloys at the Nanoscale: For Lithium Ion Battery Anodes. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

A computer model that tests automobile components for crashworthiness could also be of use to the oil and gas industry, according to researchers at MIT’s Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory, who are now using their simulations of material deformation in car crashes to predict how pipes may fracture in offshore drilling accidents.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Researchers from MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, led by MIT professor Yang Shao-Horn, found that La 0.8 Christen, Yang Shao-Horn (2010) Catalytic Activity Enhancement for Oxygen Reduction on Epitaxial Perovskite Thin Films for Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells. Biegalski, Hans M. 20100192.

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MARCH 9, 2010

by 2010 and 9% wt. For this innovation, Rafiee is the winner of the 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize, and is among the four 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize winners this year. Rafiee is the fourth recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize.

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JULY 18, 2011

Researchers at MIT, led by Prof. Ceder leads the CEDER (Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research group) at MIT, and has been pushing for the realization of the “Materials Genome” project to bring advanced automated computing environments coupled to databases to materials design. Click to enlarge.

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Schwartz Former IEEE chief financial officer Life member, 77; died 22 October Schwartz served as CFO of IEEE from 1993 to 2010. Joel Moses MIT professor emeritus Life Fellow, 80; died 29 May Moses taught electrical engineering and computer science at MIT for 50 years. in computer science in 1967 from MIT.

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JANUARY 6, 2016

The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) To those ends, TRI has launched 30 initial projects with its partners at Stanford and MIT.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

The 21,500 tonne hull was launched in 2010, although construction work was frozen in mid-2011 amid bankruptcy proceedings against the shipyard. Using established designs minimizes technological risks, says Buongiorno, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE) at MIT.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Based in Cambridge, MA, Pellion was founded by a team of MIT researchers. In 2010, ARPA-E awarded the startup $3,204,080 to support the development of Mg-ion batteries for EVs. —Motorola Solutions Chief Technology Officer Paul Steinberg.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

According to the report— 2016 State of Self-Driving Automotive Innovation —there were more than 22,000 new inventions related to self-driving automobiles between January 2010 and October 2015, with some clear leaders already emerging in the space. Given that, the field is ripe for partnership, according tomthe analysts.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, which has been working on a new layer-by-layer (LbL) method for producing novel kinds of membranes, has developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries using that method. Argun et al. Nathan Ashcraft, Marie K.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. In 2007 I pledged that—by 2010—Nissan would mass-market a zero-emission vehicle. Nissan Motor Co.,

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APRIL 7, 2011

The teams first studied the ideas from October 2008 to April 2010. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., The MIT team is moving forward with work on its “double bubble” airplane design. The work is funded by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington.

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JUNE 1, 2012

First established in 2010, the Hubs are major integrated research centers, with researchers from many different institutions and technical backgrounds. This will be the fifth Energy Innovation Hub established by DOE since 2010. —Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The award selection is expected this fall.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri has raised more than $50 million in equity financing since its founding in 2010 and is the exclusive licensee of the Liquid Metal Battery intellectual property developed at MIT. Ambri announced the opening of its prototype cell manufacturing facility in Marlborough, MA in the fall of 2013.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

New analysis by an international team led by MIT researchers shows that Asia now releases a surprisingly large amount of anthropogenic mercury. In their analysis, the team took bottom-up estimates of mercury emissions from a 2010 emissions inventory by the United Nations.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has released a report on the proceedings—and papers that informed those proceedings—of the 8 April 2010 symposium on The Electrification of the Transportation System: Issues and Opportunities. Currently, petroleum almost exclusively fuels the United States (US) transportation system.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Selected through an open national competition with a merit review process that relied on outside expert reviewers, CMI is the fifth Energy Innovation Hub established by the Energy Department since 2010.

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MAY 8, 2010

In 2008, MIT chemists, led by Professor Dan Nocera, reported that a simple cobalt catalyst could split water at neutral pH to produce oxygen, protons and electrons. David Britt (2010) EPR Evidence for Co(IV) Species Produced During Water Oxidation at Neutral pH. Earlier post.). Resources. Stich, Sebastian A. Stoian, William H.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

An international team of researchers led by Michael Strano at MIT has used carbon nanotubes to concentrate solar energy 100 times more than a regular photovoltaic cell. The work was funded by a National Science Foundation Career Award, a Sloan Fellowship, the MIT-Dupont Alliance and the Korea Research Foundation. Fantini & Michael S.

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JUNE 20, 2010

Researchers at MIT have developed a new carbon nanotube electrode material for a Li-ion battery based on redox reactions of functional groups on the surfaces of the nanotubes. Funding for the work was provided by the Dupont-MIT Alliance; the US Office of Naval Research; and the MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

In 1989 and 1990, he was a visiting research scientist at MIT. An IEEE-HKN member, he has held several IEEE leadership positions including 2020 vice president of Technical Activities , 2015–2016 Division X director, and 2010–2011 president of the Robotics and Automation Society. To sign Kosuge’s petition, click here.

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MARCH 5, 2010

Waste Management began generating renewable electricity at the site in January 2010 with the startup of a new landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) facility. Based in Bend, Oregon, InEnTec LLC was formed by engineers from MIT, Battelle, and GE.

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JULY 2, 2012

A typical mass-market car such as the Volkswagen Golf has had almost a three-fold increase in the number of ECUs used, from 17 ECUs in generation IV (1998) to 49 ECUs in generation VI (2010), notes Frost & Sullivan analyst Prana Natarajan.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Highly turbocharged alcohol-fueled direct-injection spark-ignition (DISI) engines operated at a high compression ratio could be as or more efficient than diesel engines while also providing advantages of lower vehicle cost, lower emissions and higher power, according to a recent modeling study by Leslie Bromberg and Daniel Cohn at MIT.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Distribution of battery requirements for consumer-selected PHEV designs (shaded circles) compared to USABC, MIT and EPRI performance requirements. MIT proposes a B-30 mid-size car, with a more aggressive driving cycle simulation. Units USABC MIT EPRI. Kurani, Andrew Burke (2010) Are batteries ready for plug-in hybrid buyers?

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JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2010 he started a Ph.D. In 2018, MIT Technology Review named Suri one of its 35 Innovators Under 35 for his work on neuromorphic computing. He was also eager to broaden his life experience and get a taste of the European way of doing things. program in the institute’s Advanced Memory Technology Group.

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