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without higher octane fuel, but with other projected vehicle and powertrain technology improvements), according to a new analysis by a team at MIT. Raising octane reduces engine knock constraints, enabling the design of new spark-ignition engines with higher compression ratios and boost levels. Earlier post.). Octane numbers.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Friedman’s work will provide a foundation for ongoing work in Selin’s research group at MIT, in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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MARCH 8, 2013

BASF SE has launched the “North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials—a research collaboration with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. of MIT, and Todd Emrick, Ph.D. The cooperation is initially planned for five years.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have developed a new concept for a “neutron microscope”—a compact focusing-mirror-based small-angle neutron scattering instrument—that would use neutrons instead of beams of light or electrons to create high-resolution images. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The approach taken is to achieve better utilization of the very expensive existing infrastructure, not simply to add capacity by building more roadways, guideways or highways. This project will be a significant increase in the scale of transportation-related research conducted by MIT faculty and students.

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APRIL 3, 2009

MIT researchers have developed a strategy for using genetically engineered multifunctional viruses as scaffolds for the synthesis and assembly of cathode materials for high-power lithium-ion batteries. The gene III protein (pIII) is engineered to have a binding affinity for single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). (B) and 4.3V.

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JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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APRIL 2, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT led by Professor Yang Shao-Horn have found that gold-carbon (Au/C) and platinum-carbon (Pt/C) catalysts have a strong influence on the charge and discharge voltages of rechargeable lithium-air (Li-O 2 ) batteries, and thus enable a higher efficiency than simple carbon electrodes in these batteries.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A model developed by Researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a model that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps to help improve GPS navigation. Roads can be occluded by, for example, trees and buildings, making it a challenging task, however.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Airbus has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the use of digital manufacturing in aerospace. The approach that we developed uses many small identical parts as regular building blocks. Joint systems between different parts add further complexity and structural vulnerabilities.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The study was carried out at the MIT Industrial Performance Center and involved faculty and students from nine MIT departments. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.

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MARCH 30, 2014

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. Building on novel computation techniques, assistant professor Heather J. A total of more than $1.6 million was awarded to 11 projects, each lasting up to two years.

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JUNE 10, 2019

To further that vision, MIT researchers have given new capabilities to their fleet of robotic boats—which are being developed as part of an ongoing project—that lets them target and clasp onto each other, and keep trying if they fail. Moreover, the roboat notices if it has missed the connection, backs up, and tries again.

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MAY 30, 2010

MIT researchers used modified M13 bacteriophages as templates to assemble noble metal allow nanowires for Li-ion anode materials. An MIT team including Drs. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes could be used to create elastic energy storage systems with energy densities that could be three orders of magnitude higher than those of conventional steel springs, and comparable to Li-ion batteries with potentially more durability and reliability. Hill et al. Click to enlarge.

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He said the results overturn long-held assumptions about how lithium-ion batteries charge and discharge and give researchers a new set of rules for engineering longer-lasting batteries. We look forward to building on this work through future experiments to achieve lower-cost, better-performing batteries. Hongbo Zhao/MIT).

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study.

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MAY 2, 2014

King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. The copper research builds on Allanore’s previous work in the steel industry, where he developed new electrochemical processes to make iron without greenhouse gas emissions.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products.

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JULY 24, 2022

Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions have shown that cubic boron arsenide overcomes these two limitations of silicon as a semiconductor material. MIT researchers say cubic boron arsenide is the best semiconductor material ever found, and maybe the best possible one. —Gang Chen.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

A consortium of researchers led by Caltech, in partnership with MIT; the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS); and JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA, seeks to build a new type of climate model that is designed to provide more precise and actionable predictions. —Raffaele Ferrari, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT.

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JUNE 17, 2013

The new MIT proces converts furfural into GVL via a series of cascading (domino-like) reactions catalyzed by zeolites with Lewis and Brønsted acid sites. GVL could also be useful as a “green” solvent or a building block for creating renewable polymers from sustainable materials. Credit: Bui et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. Since the discontinuance of the GM 8.1

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Graphic / Ruben Juanes, MIT. Researchers at MIT have elucidated how underground methane in frozen regions—e.g., lead author Ruben Juanes, the ARCO Assistant Professor in Energy Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Video / Ruben Juanes and Antone Jain, MIT. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. m major radius and is described in a paper in the journal Fusion Engineering and Design. Haakonsen, J.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Daimler is becoming a new member of the MIT CSAIL Alliance Program. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. The new cooperation with the MIT ideally complements this.

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. It was used in areas where GPS didn’t work well, such as hospitals, office buildings, and research centers. In the final year of his Ph.D.,

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

MIT and Toyota researchers have designed a new model to help autonomous vehicles determine when it’s safe to merge into traffic at intersections with obstructed views. When their line of sight is blocked by nearby buildings or other obstructions, these systems can fail. Their paper is published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

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APRIL 15, 2017

A team of researchers at MIT has developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. Without those measures, hydrates can build up so that they reduce the flow rate, which can reduce revenues, and if they create blockages then that “ can lead to catastrophic failure ,” Varanasi says.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

MIT engineers have studied a simple vehicle-platooning scenario and determined the best ways to deploy vehicles in order to save fuel and minimize delays. We believe that ultimately this thinking will allow us to build new transportation systems in which the cost of transportation will be reduced substantially.

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MARCH 10, 2010

NanoeXa , a designer and manufacturer of advanced Lithium-ion battery materials for a range of applications, is using its Quantum Simulation Software (QSS)—based on a quantum-simulated database of materials including structures and properties, and a simulation engine—rapidly to identify and then to deliver improved lithium-ion battery materials.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Rusatom is currently building its first floating nuclear plant, the Akademik Lomonosov ; the second of the vessel’s two reactors was installed in February. Rosatom is building its first floating NPP at the Baltiysky Zavod-Shipbuilding shipyard in St Petersburg. The Chinese delegation came to St. Petersburg and Moscow on 24-29 July.

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Smith says she believed the disparity was because girls were not being introduced to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in elementary and middle school. The nonprofit was one of seven winners last year of MIT Solve’s Gender Equity in STEM Challenge. Code Girls United Founded 2018 Headquarters Kalispell, Mont.

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MARCH 1, 2016

“While a passenger car wouldn’t achieve significant gas savings, road stiffness could make an enormous difference for 40-ton trucks, with up to 4 percent gas mileage savings,” said MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Franz-Josef Ulm, faculty director of CSHub, in an interview with Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. “If

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JANUARY 26, 2010

The SAB is chaired by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT, whose government experience includes service as Director of Energy Research and Undersecretary of the Department of Energy, and Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. —John Deutch.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main. —Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and senior research scientist at MITEI. —MITEI Director Robert C.

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