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JUNE 3, 2014

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to produce inexpensive catalysts that can replace platinum catalysts in renewable energy technologies such as fuel cells. nm range with tunable size, composition, and crystal phase. A method is presented for the production of metal-terminated TMC nanoparticles in the 1–4?nm

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MARCH 12, 2021

To accelerate lithium metal battery commercialization, GM announced a joint development agreement with lithium metal battery innovator SES. To accelerate Li-Metal battery commercialization, GM is working with several innovative companies and making investments that will allow the company to scale quickly. —Mark Reuss.

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JUNE 10, 2011

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. These include short-range, heavy-duty vehicles (e.g., Earlier post.)

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The focus of the work was on alternative jet fuels that could be available commercially in the next decade using primarily North American resources. The prospects for FT jet fuels depend crucially on construction of a few pioneer commercial plants in the next few years. From Hileman et al. Click to enlarge. million bpd. billion and $8.3

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JULY 26, 2017

Toyota, which has been working on solid-state batteries for EVs for a number of years ( earlier post ), is in the news with a report by the Wall Street Journal that it will be ready to commercialize a solid-state battery by 2022. However, there remain a number of unresolved issues precluding commercialization at this point.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

SES’ strategy is to dominate in the lithium metal battery market by first commercializing a hybrid method that combines a liquid electrolyte and a solid coating, which is easier to implement than an all-solid solution. SES is a next-generation battery technology company spun-off from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The five-year project will be led by Amedeo Odoni, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, and engage some 30 other faculty and researchers from the School of Engineering, the Sloan School of Management, and the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT.

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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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MARCH 17, 2021

So far, the current densities that have been achieved in experimental solid-state batteries have been far short of what would be needed for a practical commercial rechargeable battery. We think it could be used immediately in cell development for a wide range of applications, from handheld devices to electric vehicles to electric aviation.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The study was carried out at the MIT Industrial Performance Center and involved faculty and students from nine MIT departments. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.

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Climate Change MIT Climate Energy 240

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JULY 18, 2015

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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MAY 20, 2013

MIT scientists demonstrated two approaches for growing CNTs on carbon fiber without degrading the fiber strength. Researchers at MIT have demonstrated two approaches for producing carbon fibers coated in carbon nanotubes without degrading the underlying fiber’s strength. Credit: ACS, Steiner et al. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. In the interim, we need a large, focused, federal program to develop and demonstrate commercial-scale technologies. Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI).

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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.). 1, 2, 5, 10 C and back to 0.1

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Not surprisingly, a consistent comparison of past work is challenging given the disparity that exists.Unlike past work, the present study attempts to capture the potential range for these environmental metrics for a wide technology space, spanning a broad range of options.

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. Schematic of a CO 2. EOR System.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation has licensed the intellectual property (IP) of WiTricity, an MIT spin-off commercializing an approach to “mid-range” wireless charging (distances from a centimeter to several meters, earlier post ).

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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. Source: Axsen et al. Click to enlarge. CD operation.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

A123 Venture Technologies, a Massachusetts-based technology incubator, will collaborate with MIT startup SolidEnergy. This strategic partnership leverages SolidEnergy’s solid electrolyte technology which enables the safe and practical use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density batteries in a wide range of applications.

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Polymer Energy MIT Massachusetts 342

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

To date, the initiative has sponsored hundreds of energy-related projects ranging from unconventional sources of hydrocarbons to renewables and nuclear fusion. The MITEI program pairs world-class research teams with the energy companies responsible for commercializing the technology.

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Renewable MIT Fusion Massachusetts 199

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In December 2013, Toyota licensed ( earlier post ) the intellectual property (IP) of WiTricity, an MIT spin-off commercializing an approach to “mid-range” wireless charging (distances from a centimeter to several meters, earlier post ). Toyota believes that commercialization will help promote the use of electrified vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The AC Kinetics drive used about half of the energy of competitor commercial drives, while also having the smallest tracking error. The AC Kinetics team’s first motor control technology, invented by Dr. Singer and patented by MIT, reduces vibrations and acoustics on hundreds of millions of machines world-wide. Source: AC Kinetics.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” FUJIMOTO MIT “For pioneering the development and commercialization of optical coherence tomography for medical imaging and diagnostics.”

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Particles range from fully charged (green) to intermediate charge (orange/yellow) to drained of charge (red) The scalebar equals 500 nm. The results, Chueh said, can be directly applied to many oxide and graphite electrodes used in today’s commercial lithium ion batteries and in about half of those under development. Resources.

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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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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?

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Researchers at MIT have developed a new, efficient way to capture carbon that addresses the inherent inefficiencies ( earlier post ) of incumbent technologies, due to their thermal energy losses, large footprint or degradation of sorbent material. Credit: RSC, Voskian and Hatton (2019). Sahag Voskian and T.

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JULY 15, 2019

Researchers at MIT have devised a new pulsed laser deposition technique to make thinner lithium electrolytes using less heat, promising faster charging and potentially higher-voltage solid-state lithium ion batteries. —MIT Associate Professor Jennifer Rupp, senior author. Notably, this temperature of 660 ?C

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work and described some preliminary results from a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of different algal biofuel production pathways being done by the two partners along with MIT. We think it’s an effort worth making.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has entered into a technology collaboration agreement with WiTricity Corporation, an MIT spin-off commercializing an approach to “mid-range” wireless charging (distances from a centimeter to several meters), concerning the practical application of automotive wireless charging systems for automotive traction batteries (..)

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

air (Li-O 2 ) battery represents a conceptually attractive energy storage device for electric vehicle applications due to its high theoretical energy storage capacity ( earlier post ); however, among the obstacles to commercialization is a lack of fundamental understanding of the reactions involved.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

WiTricity is commercializing an approach to “mid-range” wireless charging—distances from a centimeter to several meters. These systems work over a limited distance range, require precise accurate parking alignment and can be very large and heavy, making them impractical for widespread use on electric vehicles, Delphi says.

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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. The symposium was sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, together with Ormat, Hess, Cummins and Entergy.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The collaboration between the two companies is intended to help establish a global infrastructure of safe and convenient charging options for consumer and commercial electric vehicles. WiTricity is commercializing an approach to “mid-range” wireless charging—distances from a centimeter to several meters. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 9, 2023

Continuous-tone computer graphics have a virtually unlimited range of color and shades of gray. He helped develop hardware techniques that enabled commercial use of time-shared computer systems. thesis in 1963 at MIT. This research was responsible for the birth of much of continuous-tone computer graphics as we know it today.”

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3

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