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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other polymers which form one-dimensional chains. Until now, scientists had believed it was impossible to induce polymers to form 2D sheets. Zeng et al. —Michael Strano.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Researchers at MIT have identified , quantified, and modeled a major reason for the poor performance of electroreduction processes to convert CO 2 to fuel or other useful chemicals. In all of these, I think the hydrogen co-evolution becomes a bottleneck. The research was supported by Shell, through the MIT Energy Initiative.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

MIT researchers have demonstrated that an aircraft with a 5-meter wingspan can sustain steady-level flight using ionic-wind propulsion. The MIT team’s final design resembles a large, lightweight glider. The fuselage of the plane holds a stack of lithium-polymer batteries. —Xu et al. Let’s hope some of them take off.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, which has been working on a new layer-by-layer (LbL) method for producing novel kinds of membranes, has developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries using that method.

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MARCH 27, 2021

Now, a study at MIT has for the first time analyzed and quantified how bubbles form on these porous electrodes. The work is described in the journal Joule , in a paper by MIT visiting scholar Ryuichi Iwata, graduate student Lenan Zhang, professors Evelyn Wang and Betar Gallant, and three others. —Beta Gallant.

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AUGUST 29, 2015

an integrated stationary fuel cell manufacturer, to develop a durable, low-cost, and high-performance electrochemical cell to convert natural gas and other methane-rich gas into methanol, a major chemical commodity with worldwide applications in the production of liquid fuels, solvents, resins, and polymers. Earlier post.)

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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. earlier post ).

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