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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.
VIDEO: Mike Short — Wizard Professor
Professor Mike Short is a wizard professor, casting spells on his students, whom he refers to as "raw stuff" and "absolutely brilliant" as he leads them through personalized, unique, and often outrageous-sounding assignments that help them not only understand, but also come to love the subject.
Six from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2021
NSE’s Bilge Yildiz and Laura Grego along with Lydia Bourouiba, Hong Liu, Thomas Peacock, and Lindley Winslow, are named 2021 fellows for their contributions to physics.
Creating dynamic symmetry in quantum systems
Physicists and engineers have long been interested in creating new forms of matter, those not typically found in nature. Such materials might find use someday in, for example, novel computer chips. Beyond applications, they also reveal elusive insights about the fundamental workings...
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...
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.
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.