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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. Watson Research Center) and former MIT graduate student Casandra Cox (now at Harvard). Source: Winkler et al.

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MARCH 20, 2012

In 1935, Adolf Busemann proposed a biplane concept that divided a diamond airfoil into two components and placed the triangular surfaces facing each other—i.e., For decades, the speed of commercial aircraft was constrained by the sound barrier. Conceptual drawing of a supersonic biplane in flight. Credit: Tohoku University.

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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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MARCH 30, 2014

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized. A total of more than $1.6 million was awarded to 11 projects, each lasting up to two years.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

It is important to note that none of the oil recovery processes described in this paper are currently practiced at the commercial scale with algae feedstock. Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work.

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MAY 2, 2014

King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. BEMC is now scaling up the process to 1,000 times laboratory scale to demonstrate its commercial viability. Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. Hoar and R.G.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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. DiMatteo says he hopes eventually to commercialize Hagelstein’s new idea. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The finished, 2.3-ton This significant improvement leads to a cascade of potential improvements in reactor design.

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MAY 19, 2016

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dusseldorf, Germany, and MIT have developed a novel strategy to design nanostructured, bulk high-entropy alloys (HEAs) ( earlier post ) with multiple compositionally equivalent high-entropy phases. Source: MIT. The new approach is described in a paper this week in the journal Nature.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Under the new contracts, the teams will now develop concepts and models that can be tested in computer simulations, laboratories and wind tunnels. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., Aircraft and Technology Concepts for N+3 Subsonic Transport, $4.6 Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, or SUGAR, $8.8

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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?

Recharge

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Researchers at MIT had earlier demonstrated the ability to make biopropane (LPG from corn or sugarcane) using a supercritical water process, and created a startup (C3 BioEnergy) in 2007 that attempted to commercialize the technology. This concept, if commercialized, would avoid a key. Stored and transported like.

USA

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MAY 26, 2011

Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

Li-ion

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The speed of the sensor is not limited by any traditional concept such as exposure time, frame rate, etc. Chen and his researchers have spun off a start-up company named Hillhouse Tech to commercialize the new camera technology. The response time to the pixel event is at nanosecond scale.

Singapore

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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. Fleet efficiency. Grantee Description. PPG Industries, Inc.

Carbon Fiber

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MAY 15, 2021

At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has engineered the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce biodiesel-like lipids and alkanes.

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MAY 14, 2020

The Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) proof-of-concept study will explore moving from the traditional “maintain and repair” to a “replace and refurbish” approach, in which components are intentionally designed and tested for shorter and more predictable lifetimes with the potential for game-changing O&M cost savings.

Molten Salt

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APRIL 16, 2010

While homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines can offer both high efficiency and low emissions (NO x and PM), commercial automotive application continues to face the challenge of a limited operating range. This concept, they noted, only brings some advantage in the FTP75 due to the extended load map. Click to enlarge.

2010

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APRIL 30, 2010

More than 540 initial concept papers were received in the three focus areas. The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates.

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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 boiler concept should allow for a more compact combustor with reduced gas-phase heat exchanger surface area.

Coal

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JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. In the DIAB concept, DI of the knock suppressing fuel is used only in the amount required to prevent knock and gasoline is supplied to the cylinder by conventional PFI (port fuel injection).

Transportation

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MARCH 4, 2016

NASA’s recent focus on supersonic research testing began in November 2010 as part of the project’s Experimental Systems Validations for N+2 Supersonic Commercial Transport Aircraft effort. Artist’s concept of a possible Low Boom Flight Demonstration Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) X-plane design. million over four years to MIT.

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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) V versus Li/Li +.

Cheap

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APRIL 26, 2009

Proposed by John Heywood and colleagues at MIT in 2005, the basic premise of E85 boosting is that ethanol (or other lower alcohols) suppresses knock due to the large evaporative cooling effect it has on the air-fuel mixture when injected directly into the cylinder, supplemented by ethanol’s inherent high octane number. Earlier post.)

Diesel

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MARCH 19, 2015

The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built. Continuous fiber composites.

Molten Salt

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MARCH 29, 2024

Now, an MIT spin-off says it has found a solution in an innovative technology that could dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. Although Wostov is credited as a founder of Quaise, he says he has no financial stake in the company—unlike MIT. Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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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.

Energy

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The recent progress in commercial humanoids is just exhausting. Paper ] via [ EPFL LIS ] Nissan announces the concept model of “Iruyo”, a robot that supports babysitting while driving. GitHub ] via [ MIT ] This is one of those things that’s far more difficult than it might look. IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

Boston

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

The concept, called space-based solar power, is an idea so grand, yet so tantalizing, that engineers and government bodies have spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how to make it happen. Manufacturers have said for years that commercialization was just around the corner , but by March of 2024, no company had delivered.

Energy

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. In this experiment, funded by the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative , the samples aren't being powered. Allison Goode/Aegis Aerospace. Our collaborators in the.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

performance to the best commercial magnets and be significantly less expensive. properties on a prototype bulk magnet exceeding state-of-the-art commercial magnets. will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. developed and deployed at commercial scale. contain any rare earth elements. Ames Laboratory.

Energy

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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.

Low Cost

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Of the techniques currently in development, other water harvesting technologies are likely closer to commercial applications, according to Chiara Neto , a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Sydney. Yu’s research “provides guidance on how to increase efficiency of the water capture process,” Neto says.

Water

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JULY 19, 2011

Proof-of-concept demonstrations have been deployed in Michigan and California, but there are to date no widespread deployments. Specialized system such as forward-looking radar are not really built off of commercial technologies, Shulman notes, and the volumes are low. MIT and smart intersections. — Mike Shulman.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

John Kirwan from Delphi presented a 3-cylinder turbocharged SIDI concept, “ a high value solution for meeting Euro 6 in smaller passenger cars ”. Differentiated Analysis of Downsizing Concepts”). Advanced boosting concepts. We see dramatic downsizing and boosting [as] something that’s going to for gasoline engines especially.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

The three founders—Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Chris Urmson, Chief Product Officer (CPO) Sterling Anderson and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Drew Bagnell—and deep academic and commercial experience in the field. He has a PhD in Robotics from MIT. Chris Urmson, Co-founder & CEO. Earlier post.).

Fleet

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

So [the girl] invented a teddy bear that would rub her belly for her,” explains Stephanie Couch , executive director of the Lemelson MIT Program. Fusion researchers have spent decades trying to crack the code of commercially viable fusion—it’s more akin to a calling than a career. That’s the promise of today’s generative AI.

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