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MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility and stability against oxidation of lithium ion conductors—a key component of rechargeable batteries—using lattice dynamics.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), including one of Indian-origin, have designed a new battery material that could offer a more sustainable, cobalt-free way to power electric cars. Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. Automaker Lamborghini has licensed the patent on the technology.

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JULY 25, 2011

A team at MIT, led by Carl V. They report on their study in a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Gravimetric Ragone plot comparing energy and power characteristics of CNF electrodes based on the pristine and discharged electrode weight with that of LiCoO 2. Source: Mitchell et al. Click to enlarge.

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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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MAY 12, 2010

Even more significantly, Nocera says, the new finding shows that the original compound was not a unique, anomalous material, and suggests that there may be a whole family of such compounds that researchers can study in search of one that has the best combination of characteristics to provide a widespread, long-term energy storage technology.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The goal of the study was to understand how various technology options affect life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and on-site freshwater consumption and to develop principles that can guide R&D to enable the production of algal biofuels with low GHG and freshwater consumption. the functional unit) being assessed. —Vasudevan et al.

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MARCH 20, 2012

The US has enough capacity to store at least a century’s worth of its carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations in underground saline aquifers, according to new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

How Atmospheric Water Harvesting Works The new hydrogel is more efficient in its uptake and release of water thanks to its structure, which pairs two distinct segments: a network of sites that absorb and store water and thermoreactive segments that help to release liquid water.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

YouTube ] Scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in the ever-present quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, created a framework that's more scaled up: a system that can reorient over two thousand different objects, with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Zhao is an associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the director of the JTL Urban Mobility Lab. Jessika Trancik, an associate professor of energy studies in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, will examine and identify cost-reducing and emissions-saving mechanisms for hydrogen-fueled mobility services.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. However, it currently costs about 50% more than gray H 2 , not including the cost of developing the pipelines and sequestration systems needed to transport and store unwanted CO 2. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

An MIT-led team of researchers from Taiwan and the US have successfully analyzed the performance of a class of materials considered a promising candidate for hydrogen storage: activated carbon that incorporates a platinum catalyst, allowing the hydrogen atoms can bond directly to the surface of carbon particles and then be released when needed.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Affectiva was cofounded in 2009 by Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard of the MIT Media Lab, who had specialized in " affective computing "—defined as computing systems that recognize and respond to human emotions. To date we have gathered tens of thousands of hours of in-vehicle data from thousands of participant studies.

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JULY 22, 2023

Together with Prisms VR, WestEd studied how feasible it would be for students to complete a lesson using VR in a 45-minute class. For students who want to practice their math skills at home, a monthly subscription of $24 to Prisms Math is available from the Meta Quest store. The 10-year study is being conducted in Arizona.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Affectiva was cofounded in 2009 by Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard of the MIT Media Lab, who had specialized in " affective computing "—defined as computing systems that recognize and respond to human emotions. To date we have gathered tens of thousands of hours of in-vehicle data from thousands of participant studies.

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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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JUNE 17, 2015

Yet-Min Chiang (a co-founder of A123 Systems) at MIT, have discovered that a synergetic effect resulting from the addition of both lithium polysulfide and lithium nitrate to ether-based electrolyte prevents dendrite growth on Li-metal anodes and minimizes electrolyte decomposition. Credit: SLAC.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns : MIT's Neil Thompson and several of his collaborators captured the top spot with a thoughtful feature article about the computational and energy costs of training deep learning systems. Several came from Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on AI, The Great AI Reckoning.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Some studies with graphene anodes have reported achieving a capacity higher than the theoretical capacity of graphite and have generally attributed it to the formation of Li 2 C 6 , corresponding to the intercalation of lithium ions on both sides of the graphene sheets. The recent study by Harry et al. —Mukherjee et al.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. Until now, no one had studied its interactions with carbon dioxide. In theory, the system could allow researchers to create a cartridge that would temporarily store carbon dioxide emitted by vehicles.

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APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. 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. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Using TMV, the researchers can greatly increase the electrode surface area and its capacity to store energy and enable fast charge/discharge times. In parallel, we are collaborating with our colleagues at Drexel and MIT to construct surfaces that resemble the structure of plant leaves. —Reza Ghodssi.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab. However, the Tesla Robotics team has done a commendable job in fast iteration time for the design of the robot from the ground up, [following the path from] a good experimental study on actuator requirements, todesigning new actuators, then creating the integrated system. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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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. The particle collector stored the seeds for further analysis in the lab. A paper on their results is published in the journal Science.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. I was really fascinated when I ran across the digital afterlife industry because I have been studying human rights for a couple of decades now. Wong: That’s a really good question.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Our eventual aim is to use such smart electronic textiles to study cosmic dust, some of which has interplanetary or even interstellar origins. Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. Allison Goode/Aegis Aerospace.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

A separate paper published online in Science Express by researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole and MIT concludes that indirect land use change associated with global biofuels programs will be responsible for substantially more carbon loss (up to twice as much) than direct land use. issue of the journal Science.

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APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint’s stance is bolstered by a new MIT study that suggests , in part, that electric cars that plug into the grid, could, collectively, act as a massive “virtual battery” for grid energy storage. MIT: Utilities and the virtual battery. ChargePoint envisions that at scale—i.e.,

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Quantum simulation of ecosystems is another, says Seth Lloyd , a quantum physicist at MIT. E In a 2013 study, Sandberg and his colleague Stuart Armstrong suggested deploying automated self-replicating robots on Mercury to build a Dyson swarm. However, in a 2023 study , Wright suggests that this nested design may be unnecessary. “If

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nodules will be separated from this slurry aboard the Hidden Gem , which will store them in its hold and discard what remains. Oceanographers from MIT and elsewhere have been studying the environmental consequences of such operations. The best depth to discharge the leftovers is not yet entirely clear.

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APRIL 21, 2009

DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we Marketwatch ). Bloomberg ).

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APRIL 10, 2023

With lossless algorithms, as an IEEE Spectrum article explained in 2021, “bits disappear, making the data file dramatically smaller and thus easier to store and transmit,” but unlike lossy compression techniques such as the ones used with JPEG and MP3 files, the bits “reappear on command.” in electrical engineering in 1962.

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APRIL 16, 2009

"The Volt is a case study. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. run the hardware store and buy a new one. The Volt is a case study.

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