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JANUARY 31, 2015

SolidEnergy , an MIT spin-out commercializing solid electrolyte technology enabling the use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), says that in 2016, it and its battery manufacturing partners will release a 2 Ah commercial battery for the smartphone and wearable market.

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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). 1305735110.

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APRIL 30, 2014

In July 2013, Ambri’s systems team operated its first 36-cell (2 kWh) battery system in the Cambridge lab, along with the first-generation battery management system (BMS). Ambri announced the opening of its prototype cell manufacturing facility in Marlborough, MA in the fall of 2013. The cells are still in operation.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Invented by MIT, and subsequently acquired by Trexel in 1995, the MuCell process was initially created for development and commercial use in the injection molding industry worldwide. This marks the the first time the MuCell process has been used in an instrument panel, and is the largest automotive component molded using the process.

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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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JUNE 25, 2012

XL Hybrids’ hybrid electric powertrain is a low-cost, low-risk, bolt-on, post-transmission parallel hybrid technology designed for Class 1–3 commercial vehicles that integrates seamlessly with the conventional internal combustion engine and transmission. The system is designed to be installed in about 4 hours, faster at a commercial upfitter.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. —Cullen Buie, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, co-author. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge. The membrane-less design enables power densities of 0.795? —Braff et al.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Scientists at MIT have built catalyst structures to achieve high Li-O 2 battery performances by forming a nanocomposite of bio-templated manganese oxide nanowires (bio MO nanowires) produced by the M13 bacteriophage virus ( earlier post ) with incorporation of a small weight percent (3-5 wt%) of Pd nanoparticles. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 24, 2013

In FY 2013, BES selected Argonne National Laboratory to lead the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, which will apply MGI principles to the discovery and design of new electrolytes to move beyond traditional lithium-ion batteries. MIT launching MOOC on innovation and commercialization of materials technologies.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Together, the companies will have invested approximately $500 million in the joint venture by 2013. Were such an innovation successfully developed, they noted, the technology would flow to Cobasys for commercialization.).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A new desalination process developed by engineers at MIT could treat produced water—deep water, often heavily laden with salts and minerals—from natural gas wells at relatively low cost. The research is the work of a team including MIT postdoc Prakash Narayan, mechanical engineering professor John H. —John Lienhard.

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APRIL 12, 2015

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 19, 2015

TRISO fuel is not currently manufactured at the commercial scale. Because LWRs can achieve higher burnup by using higher enrichment fuel, planning to upgrade US commercial fuel enrichment capabilities has already begun. MIT is investigating a fluoride-salt-cooled high temperature test reactor (FHTR). Continuous fiber composites.

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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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JULY 19, 2011

The US DOT’s is preparing NHTSA for a decision in 2013 that will determine whether the agency proceeds with regulatory activities that could require DSRC technology on new vehicles, consumer information programs that help new car buyers understand the effectiveness of this technology, or the need for further research and development.

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MARCH 5, 2013

2013 Click to enlarge. 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. Watson Research Center) and former MIT graduate student Casandra Cox (now at Harvard).

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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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MAY 19, 2015

GMZ Energy has been very successful at developing nanomaterial-based thermoelectric modules, and making them commercially available. Evident, founded in 2000, is a leader in nanomaterials synthesis and products, and its record of achievement has included commercial product launches in quantum dots, LEDs, biotech and military applications.

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MAY 10, 2013

An interdisciplinary team from MIT, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and elsewhere has identified the major particles upon which cirrus clouds form. Cirrus clouds typically form at altitudes higher than most commercial planes fly. A paper on their results is published in the journal Science. Cziczo, Karl D.

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MAY 13, 2013

Researchers at MIT, the University of Pittsburgh, and Sandia National Laboratories have used transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging to observe the electrochemical oxidation of Li 2 O 2 , providing insights into the rate-limiting processes that govern charge in Li–O 2 cells. Mao, suggested. Oxidation of Li 2 O particles. (a)

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. —Sergey Paltsev, an author of the study and a principal research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative. Cyprus offshore hydrocarbon exploration blocks.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

at MIT under Rodney Brooks. Edsinger then cofounded a robotics startup that was acquired by Google in 2013. And with a commercial price of US $20,000, Stretch is a tiny fraction of the cost of a PR2. Kemp found a kindred spirit in Aaron Edsinger , who like Kemp had earned a Ph.D.

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APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009. No announced plans.

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