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MIT Looks Ahead to Hydrogen’s Aviation Future

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John Hansman , an aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT and director of the university’s International Center for Air Transportation. The research hinted at other logistical challenges, too, including transporting and storing hydrogen in an efficient way. asks Professor R. The first challenge is hydrogen production.

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SLAC, MIT, TRI researchers advance machine learning to accelerate battery development; insights on fast-charging

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It was the first time this approach—known as “scientific machine learning”—has been applied to battery cycling, said Will Chueh, an associate professor at Stanford University and investigator with the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory who led the study. Hongbo Zhao/MIT).

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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. and Ghoniem, A. FeO 3-δ membranes: a kinetics study.

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Researchers devise electrode architectures to prevent dendrite formation in solid-state batteries

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But the promise is worth pursuing, says MIT Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, because the amount of energy that can be stored in experimental versions of such cells is already nearly double that of conventional lithium-ion batteries. The team solved the dendrite problem by adopting a compromise between solid and liquid states. Eschler, C.M.,

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Cornell team develops aluminum-anode batteries with up to 10,000 cycles

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Cornell researchers led by Lynden Archer, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering and the James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering, have been exploring the use of low-cost materials to create rechargeable batteries that will make energy storage more affordable.

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Novel Li-metal electrode design could lead to more powerful solid-state batteries

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Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. The new cathode does not rely only on the capacity contribution from these transition-metals in battery cycling.

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A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

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Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The gel’s thermoreactive nature, meanwhile, is key for releasing the stored water. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air.

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