Powering the future in Mongolia
Through coursework, intercollegiate collaboration, and a site visit, MIT students fuse engineering and anthropology to propose innovative energy solutions.
Flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage
A modeling framework developed at MIT can help speed the development of flow batteries for large-scale, long-duration electricity storage on the future grid.
An interdisciplinary approach to fighting climate change through clean energy solutions
Principal Research Scientist Audun Botterud tackles a range of cross-cutting problems — from energy market interactions to designing batteries — to get closer to a decarbonized power grid.
Minimizing electric vehicles’ impact on the grid
Careful planning of charging station placement could lessen or eliminate the need for new power plants, a new study shows.
A more sustainable way to generate phosphorus
MIT chemists found a way to cut the carbon footprint of producing white phosphorus, an ingredient in many consumer products.
Using combustion to make better batteries
An MIT team is working to harness combustion to yield valuable materials, including some that are critical in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.
Mining for the clean energy transition
MIT Conference on Mining, Environment, and Society convenes academics, industry, policymakers, and NGOs to discuss challenges of supplying the materials for clean energy.
Reversing the charge
Battery power from electric vehicles to the grid could open a fast lane to a net-zero future.
Engineers solve a mystery on the path to smaller, lighter batteries
Branchlike metallic filaments can sap the power of solid-state lithium batteries. A new study explains how they form and how to divert them.
On batteries, teaching, and world peace
Professor Emeritus Donald Sadoway, renowned electrochemist and influential educator, reflects on 45 years at MIT.
New materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
Pacemakers and other medical devices, as well as long-distance drones and remote sensors, could require fewer battery replacements with new approach.
Simplifying the production of lithium-ion batteries
MIT spinout 24M Technologies designed a battery that reduces the cost of manufacturing lithium-ion cells.
3 Questions: Janelle Knox-Hayes on producing renewable energy that communities want
New position paper calls for getting stakeholders involved in wind power projects from the start.
A lasting — and valuable — legacy
Professor Betar Gallant approaches electrochemistry with a strong inclination, inherited from her family, to work things out independently.
A new concept for low-cost batteries
Made from inexpensive, abundant materials, an aluminum-sulfur battery could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources.