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Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.). —Li et al.

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MAY 12, 2010

By doing so, he aims to imitate the process of photosynthesis, by which plants harvest sunlight and convert the energy into chemical form. The original discovery has already led to the creation of a company, called Sun Catalytix, that aims to commercialize the system in the next two years. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 17, 2010

24M Technologies launched as a new venture focused on commercializing next-generation energy storage systems based on technology out of A123 Systems. ARPA-E has awarded a total of $6M to a collaborative effort between 24M, MIT and Rutgers to further develop its technology ( earlier post ), on top of previous funding to MIT from DARPA.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 atom % In-doped SnTe at about 873 K (600 ° C).

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AUGUST 4, 2017

The PEM system uses heating from electrically conducting gas (a plasma) to convert the feedstock (usually waste) to valuable products. InEnTec’s technology was developed at MIT and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with the support of the US Department of Energy. InEnTec has successfully installed 13 units worldwide since 1995.

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JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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MARCH 5, 2010

The planned facility will convert municipal solid waste into synthetic fuels and power. The clean syngas may then be converted into transportation fuels such as ethanol and diesel, or industrial products such as hydrogen and methanol. Based in Bend, Oregon, InEnTec LLC was formed by engineers from MIT, Battelle, and GE.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The DIGIT touch sensor is based on the GelSight style of sensor, which was first conceptualized at MIT over a decade ago. The bill of materials for each DIGIT sensor is about US $15 if you were to make a thousand of them, so we're expecting that the commercial version won't cost much more than that.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

IEEE FOUNDERS MEDAL Sponsor: IEEE Richard and Mary Jo Stanley Memorial Fund of the IEEE Foundation RODNEY ALLEN BROOKS MIT “For leadership in research and commercialization of autonomous robotics, including mobile, humanoid, service, and manufacturing robots.” IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL Sponsor: Qualcomm, Inc.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V)

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JANUARY 20, 2017

MIT engineers have genetically engineered strains of the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to boost the production of lipids by about 25% compared to previously engineered yeast strains. Despite much progress, commercialization of microbial oils is limited to the production of high-value commodity chemicals. —Qiao et al.

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems, a startup formed by MIT alumni, has developed , with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a hybrid rotary compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas, lowers operating costs, improves efficiencies and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. valve train vs. bearings). Light-weighting materials. General Motors, LLC. GMZ Energy, Inc. Fleet efficiency.

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The system can now convert solar energy to biomass with 10% efficiency, Nocera said, far above the one percent seen in the fastest growing plants. Researchers also used the system to create PHB, a bio-plastic precursor, a process first demonstrated by MIT professor Anthony Sinskey. —Daniel Nocera. This is the genius of Dan.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The biomass-degrading enzymes from the anaerobic gut fungi are competitive with optimized commercial enzyme preparations from Aspergillus and Trichoderma. Industrial-scale processes require fungal enzymes to convert biomass into fermentable sugars. In other words, the fungi can update their enzyme arsenal on the fly.

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Bosch has extensive experience in hybrid and electric drive technology as well as power electronics, electric motors, transmissions and DC/DC converters. Were such an innovation successfully developed, they noted, the technology would flow to Cobasys for commercialization.).

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Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries.

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MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech.

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JULY 26, 2012

The Phase 1 projects will focus on an engineering and economic analysis of the technologies while identifying the Phase 2 research and development needs to bring the technology closer to commercialization. The CDCL process consists of a unique moving bed reactor where pulverized coal is fully converted using iron-based oxygen carriers.

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Wireless EV chargers are portrayed as cutting-edge technology, but the MagneCharge system made by Hughes (a division of GM at the time) was commercially available on EVs way back in the early 1990s. The MagneCharge system employed a paddle-shaped charging head which contained the primary coil.

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At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. If successful, it will be the first biological platform to convert carboxylic acids into a broad range of fuels and commodities with greater than 100% carbon efficiency. INvizyne Technologies, Inc.

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Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., But there needs to be some infrastructure to support more commercial or public sector uses.

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JUNE 25, 2010

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $125 million in five separate contracts to Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce-North America to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce commercial jet fuel consumption, emissions and noise. Earlier post.). General Electric.

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MARCH 5, 2013

A team of researchers at MIT has described a framework for efficiently coupling the power output of a series-connected string of single-band-gap solar cells to an electrochemical process that produces storable fuels. The original demonstration leaf in 2011 had low efficiencies, converting less than 4.7% Source: Winkler et al.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The MIT will develop a new generation of power electronics based on vertical gallium nitride (GaN) superjunction diodes and transistors that can vastly exceed the performance of today’s GaN power devices. Pratt & Whitney will design a novel, high-efficiency hydrogen-power turbomachine for commercial aviation.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. One of our first commercially launched color products, in 2010, used a color filter—an array of squares printed onto a layer of glass placed on top of the standard black-and-white ink layer. We needed something entirely new.

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Basic scheme of the quantum-coupled converter. Researchers from MIT, with colleagues from IISc in Bangalore, India and HiPi Consulting in Maryland have experimentally demonstrated the conversion of heat to electricity using thermal diodes with efficiency as high as 40% of the Carnot Limit. Shaded boxes indicate electron reservoirs.

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2008 required another tune up based on the opinion of the Air Board’s own independent technology review panel which said that fuel cells cars are not ready for mass commercialization. And to make his point Hwang stretched the original goal of 8,333 ZEVs per year into “mass commercialization.” He graduated from MIT in 1978 (B.S.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. Over the past two years, research has focused on a multistep approach for converting cellulosic biomass to transportation fuels. —Professor Huber.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric voltage; a TEG in a vehicle is designed to convert waste heat to power. GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. convert natural gas into methanol and hydrogen. The increased energy.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based company developing practical flying cars.Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five MIT graduates; since then, the company has delivered a number of working prototypes. —Chris Jaran, CEO.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

WiTricity is an MIT spin-off commercializing an approach to “mid-range” wireless charging (distances from a centimeter to several meters) based on sharply resonant strong coupling. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Maximum efficiency is achieved when the devices are relatively close to one another, and can exceed 95%.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. plants, and it is a liquid that can be extracted readily, separated, and converted into biodiesel fuel. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. The team will. field trials.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. While Elkind, the other comanager of the Computer Science Laboratory, was skeptical of the proposal, he became a convert after seeing the prototype Alto in April 1973.

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