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MIT engineers create 2D polymer that self-assembles into sheets

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other polymers which form one-dimensional chains. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and the senior author of the new study.

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New MIT algorithm helps AI systems dodge adversarial inputs; CARRL

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MARCH 9, 2021

A new deep-learning algorithm developed by MIT researchers is designed to help machines navigate in the real, imperfect world by building a healthy “skepticism” of the measurements and inputs they receive. This research was supported, in part, by Ford Motor Company as part of the Ford-MIT Alliance. —Everett et al.

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MIT, NASA engineers develop morphing wing

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APRIL 1, 2019

Similar assemblies are being developed to build space structures, and could eventually be useful for bridges and other high performance structures. The work was supported by NASA ARMD Convergent Aeronautics Solutions Program (MADCAT Project), and the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. in Moffett Field, California.

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MIT and Harvard team develop material that stores sun’s heat

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APRIL 13, 2014

Researchers from MIT and Harvard University have developed a material that can absorb the sun’s heat and store that energy in chemical form, ready to be released again on demand. for heating buildings, cooking, or powering heat-based industrial processes—this could provide an opportunity for the expansion of solar power into new realms.

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MIT researchers propose subsea version of pumped hydro for renewable energy storage

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APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. MIT has filed for a patent on the system. These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce. Earlier post.).

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MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future suggests widespread autonomous driving at least a decade away

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JULY 27, 2020

The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future has released a new research brief examining the future of autonomous vehicles. AV operations will benefit from improvements to infrastructure.

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MIT and Saudi Aramco augment existing collaboration; more energy research

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JUNE 23, 2012

MIT President Susan Hockfield and Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, providing a framework that will greatly expand the research and education partnership between MIT and Saudi Aramco. Several elements of the MOU have been agreed to for implementation.

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MIT system trains driverless cars using reinforcement learning with data-driven simulation

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MARCH 26, 2020

A data-driven simulation system invented at MIT, in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute, to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-case scenarios before cruising down real streets. Data-driven simulation.

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MIT researchers build model simulating atmospheric transport of PAHs; how chemicals get to the Arctic

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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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BASF launches advanced materials research initiative with Harvard, MIT and UMass; focus on automotive, energy, and building and construction

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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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MIT study: higher octane standard fuel in US could lower fleet fuel consumption & GHG an extra 4.5-6% by 2040

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APRIL 24, 2014

without higher octane fuel, but with other projected vehicle and powertrain technology improvements), according to a new analysis by a team at MIT. However, notes the MIT team, the engine and measurement conditions of the RON and MON tests do not represent real world operating conditions. reduction by then in the baseline case (i.e.,

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Ford kicks off new automated driving research projects with MIT and Stanford University

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Building on the capabilities of the automated Ford Fusion Hybrid research vehicle unveiled last month ( earlier post ), Ford is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University to research and to develop solutions to some of the technical challenges surrounding automated driving. Click to enlarge.

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MIT, NASA, ORNL team developing “neutron microscope”

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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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DOE awards Core Power and MIT Energy Initiative funding for floating nuclear power research project

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program ( NEUP ) has awarded research funds to the MIT Energy Initiative, CORE POWER, and the Idaho National Laboratory for a three-year study into the development of offshore floating nuclear power generation in the US. Source: MIT CANES. Funding would come from the $1.2-trillion

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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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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LLNL/MIT team creates ultralight, ultrastiff metamaterials; possible applications for automotive and aerospace

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JUNE 20, 2014

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed materials with the same weight and density as aerogel (“frozen smoke”) but with 10,000 times more stiffness using additive micro-manufacturing processes. Source: LLNL Click to enlarge. Zheng et al. Click to enlarge.

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MIT researchers identify viable anode material for molten oxide electrolysis for lower CO2 steel production

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MAY 12, 2013

Researchers at MIT have identified inexpensive metal alloy materials that can serve as anodes for molten oxide electrolysis (MOE)—an electrometallurgical technique that enables the direct production of metal in the liquid state from oxide feedstock. They expect it could take about three years to design, build and test such a reactor.

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MIT study cautions smaller nations on rushing to develop their natural gas resources; Cyprus as model

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. —Sergey Paltsev, an author of the study and a principal research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative. Cyprus offshore hydrocarbon exploration blocks.

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MIT and National Research Foundation of Singapore Launch Project on New Models and Tools for Future Urban Transportation

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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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MIT, QCRI use AI to enrich digital maps to improve GPS navigation; RoadTagger

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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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MIT Researchers Report Progress on Catalyst Development for Lithium-Air Batteries

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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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Airbus signs research agreement with MIT to explore use of digital manufacturing in aerospace vehicles

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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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MIT researchers conclude fundamental changes in the US energy-innovation system are needed to meet challenges of climate change and energy supply

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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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MIT autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other: dynamic roboat structures

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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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MIT Researchers Identify New Low-Cost Water-Splitting Catalyst

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MAY 12, 2010

This could ultimately form the basis for new storage systems that would allow buildings to be completely independent and self-sustaining in terms of energy. Earlier post.).

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MIT Team Uses Genetically Engineered Viruses to Build Cathode Material for Li-ion Battery

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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. In the latest work, the team focused on building a cathode. and 4.3V. (EC#2 EC#2 had the strongest binding affinity to SWNTs).

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MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards

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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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MIT researchers propose massive bloom of methanogenic microbes may have triggered end-Permian extinction

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APRIL 1, 2014

However, such arguments have been difficult to justify quantitatively, the MIT team notes; quantitative estimates of direct volcanic outgassing are much too small to account for the changes in the carbon cycle. Other proposals suggest secondary effects of the volcanism—such as raging coal fires—as the mechanism.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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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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MIT-spin-off DERQ partners with Control Technologies to expand AI video analytics across US

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MARCH 26, 2021

DERQ , an MIT-spin-off with an award-winning platform powered by patented AI and predictive analytics, is partnering with Control Technologies Group (CT Group), one of the US’ largest distributors of traffic signal control and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) equipment, for a multi-year distribution agreement.

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MIT Team Extends Use of Virus Template to Assemble Li-ion Anode Materials; Biologically Activated Noble Metal Alloys

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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. The inherent structural characteristic of the M13 virus enabled the synthesis of high aspect ratio nanowires.

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SLAC, MIT, TRI researchers advance machine learning to accelerate battery development; insights on fast-charging

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MARCH 9, 2021

We look forward to building on this work through future experiments to achieve lower-cost, better-performing batteries. Hongbo Zhao/MIT). By understanding the fundamental reactions that occur within the battery we can extend its life, enable faster charging and ultimately design better battery materials.

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MIT and U. Texas report urges combining and scaling up carbon capture and storage with enhanced oil recovery

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. Schematic of a CO 2. EOR System.

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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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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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MIT Researchers Find That Elastic Energy Storage Systems Built With Carbon Nanotubes Could Match Li-ion Battery Energy Densities

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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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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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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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CliMA consortium seeks to build more precise climate model from ground up

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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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MIT, Ford researchers find lightweight conventional vehicles could have lower lifecycle GHG impact than EVs depending upon location

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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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Researchers say cubic boron arsenide best semiconductor material yet found

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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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MIT team develops lower cost method to synthesize gamma-valerolactone for biofuels and chemicals

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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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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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JUNE 10, 2011

” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

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MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

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JUNE 2, 2023

Those some would be a group of MIT roboticists who just won the IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award for 2022, presented at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London. Since filming the above video, the researchers have done real-world tests with Kimera-Multi.

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MIT Researchers Elucidate Model for Escape of Underground Methane in Frozen Regions; Current Rate of Escape May be Much Faster Than Earlier Believed

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Graphic / Ruben Juanes, MIT. Researchers at MIT have elucidated how underground methane in frozen regions—e.g., Video / Ruben Juanes and Antone Jain, MIT. Pressure in that new layer of free gas would build, forcing the gas to shoot up through the HSZ to the surface through existing veins and new fractures in the sediment.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

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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MIT engineers create 2D polymer that self-assembles into sheets

New MIT algorithm helps AI systems dodge adversarial inputs; CARRL

MIT, NASA engineers develop morphing wing

MIT and Harvard team develop material that stores sun’s heat

MIT researchers propose subsea version of pumped hydro for renewable energy storage

MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future suggests widespread autonomous driving at least a decade away

MIT and Saudi Aramco augment existing collaboration; more energy research

MIT system trains driverless cars using reinforcement learning with data-driven simulation

MIT researchers build model simulating atmospheric transport of PAHs; how chemicals get to the Arctic

BASF launches advanced materials research initiative with Harvard, MIT and UMass; focus on automotive, energy, and building and construction

MIT study: higher octane standard fuel in US could lower fleet fuel consumption & GHG an extra 4.5-6% by 2040

Ford kicks off new automated driving research projects with MIT and Stanford University

MIT, NASA, ORNL team developing “neutron microscope”

DOE awards Core Power and MIT Energy Initiative funding for floating nuclear power research project

Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

LLNL/MIT team creates ultralight, ultrastiff metamaterials; possible applications for automotive and aerospace

MIT researchers identify viable anode material for molten oxide electrolysis for lower CO2 steel production

MIT study cautions smaller nations on rushing to develop their natural gas resources; Cyprus as model

MIT and National Research Foundation of Singapore Launch Project on New Models and Tools for Future Urban Transportation

MIT, QCRI use AI to enrich digital maps to improve GPS navigation; RoadTagger

MIT Researchers Report Progress on Catalyst Development for Lithium-Air Batteries

Airbus signs research agreement with MIT to explore use of digital manufacturing in aerospace vehicles

MIT researchers conclude fundamental changes in the US energy-innovation system are needed to meet challenges of climate change and energy supply

MIT autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other: dynamic roboat structures

MIT Researchers Identify New Low-Cost Water-Splitting Catalyst

MIT Team Uses Genetically Engineered Viruses to Build Cathode Material for Li-ion Battery

MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards

MIT researchers propose massive bloom of methanogenic microbes may have triggered end-Permian extinction

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

MIT-spin-off DERQ partners with Control Technologies to expand AI video analytics across US

MIT Team Extends Use of Virus Template to Assemble Li-ion Anode Materials; Biologically Activated Noble Metal Alloys

SLAC, MIT, TRI researchers advance machine learning to accelerate battery development; insights on fast-charging

MIT and U. Texas report urges combining and scaling up carbon capture and storage with enhanced oil recovery

MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

MIT Researchers Find That Elastic Energy Storage Systems Built With Carbon Nanotubes Could Match Li-ion Battery Energy Densities

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

CliMA consortium seeks to build more precise climate model from ground up

MIT, Ford researchers find lightweight conventional vehicles could have lower lifecycle GHG impact than EVs depending upon location

Researchers say cubic boron arsenide best semiconductor material yet found

MIT team develops lower cost method to synthesize gamma-valerolactone for biofuels and chemicals

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

MIT Researchers Elucidate Model for Escape of Underground Methane in Frozen Regions; Current Rate of Escape May be Much Faster Than Earlier Believed

MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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