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Options for the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Researchers argue the plant could provide multiple benefits for California, including desalinated water and clean hydrogen fuel.
Two NSE projects win MITEI Seed Fund grants
Jacopo Buongiorno, Jeffrey Freidberg, Koroush Shirvan, and Dennis Whyte receve MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund grants for their early-stage energy research projects. Awards support research to improve the efficiency, scalability, and adoption of clean energy technologies.
Electrochemistry, from batteries to brains
Bilge Yildiz’s research impacts a wide range of technologies. Her lab studies fuel cells, which convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity (and water). They study electrolyzers, which go the other way, using electricity to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen. They study...
MathWorks fellow, Haowei Xu, is creating faster, light-driven computer technologies
Xu, a PhD student in NSE, is seeking new, more efficient materials to be utilized for the construction of computer components.
Anne White to co-chair the Climate Nucleus
White and Selin will lead a new faculty committee to drive MIT's climate action plan over the next three years.
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power.
Limiao Zhang crosses disciplines, adding fresh eyes to nuclear engineering
Sometimes patterns repeat in nature. Spirals appear in sunflowers and hurricanes. Branches occur in veins and lightning. Limiao Zhang, a doctoral student in MIT’s department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has found another similarity: between street traffic and boiling water, making cooling...
A peculiar state of matter in layers of semiconductors
Scientists around the world are developing new hardware for quantum computers, a new type of device that could accelerate drug design, financial modeling, and weather prediction. They rely on qubits, bits of matter that can represent some combination of 1 and 0...
Using graphene foam to filter toxins from drinking water
MIT-led research team fashions graphene foam into device that can extract uranium and other heavy metals from tap water.
Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
System could reclaim pure water from power plant cooling towers; at-scale prototypes tested on MIT facilities have proven effective.