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DECEMBER 29, 2014

A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and MIT has used high-throughput first-principles calculations to evaluate systematically the performance of spinel-structure compounds as multivalent intercalation cathode materials.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Total has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new stationary batteries that are designed to enable the storage of solar power. This agreement valued at $4 million over five years is part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), which Total joined as a member in November 2008.

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MARCH 20, 2023

A new study by MIT researchers examines these risks and how they amplify or mitigate each other. In an open-access paper published in Cell Reports Physical Science , the researchers reported that in both locations, delayed home charging nearly eliminated increases in peak demand. Resources Zachary Needell, Wei Wei, Jessika E.

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APRIL 6, 2021

—lead author Jingxu (Kent) Zheng, currently a postdoc at MIT. Among the advantages of aluminum is that it is abundant in the earth’s crust, it is trivalent and light, and it therefore has a high capacity to store more energy than many other metals. So if we have a longer service life, then this cost will be further reduced.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Full charge–discharge cycles at constant 197C and 397C current rates without holding the voltage. Researchers at MIT have developed a lithium iron phosphate electrode material that achieves ultra-high discharge rates comparable to those of supercapacitors, while maintaining the high energy density characteristic of lithium-ion batteries.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. In theory, the system could allow researchers to create a cartridge that would temporarily store carbon dioxide emitted by vehicles. —Knopf et al.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. The metal then shrinks again during discharge, as the battery is used.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Researchers at MIT have shown that a MOF (metal-organic framework) with high electrical conductivity—Ni 3 (2,3,6,7,10,11-hexaiminotriphenylene) 2 (Ni 3 (HITP) 2 )—can serve as the sole electrode material in a supercapacitor. Comparison of areal capacitances among various EDLC materials. —Alexandru Vlad.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Unlike more conventional supercapacitor electrode materials with large surface areas and high porosities, the new hydrophilized polymer network uses ion-conducting channels for fast ion transport and charge storage. When sandwiched between and charged by two metal plates, the membrane can store charge at 0.2

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MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility and stability against oxidation of lithium ion conductors—a key component of rechargeable batteries—using lattice dynamics.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. A paper on the work is published in Nature. —Donald Sadoway.

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MAY 26, 2011

In contrast to previous flow batteries, the SSFC stores energy in suspensions of solid storage compounds to and from which charge transfer is accomplished via dilute yet percolating networks of nanoscale conductors. Source: Duduta et al. Click to enlarge. –3, in direct proportion to cell voltage.

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JUNE 20, 2010

Researchers at MIT have developed a new carbon nanotube electrode material for a Li-ion battery based on redox reactions of functional groups on the surfaces of the nanotubes. When these layers are alternated on a surface, they bond tightly together because of the complementary charges, making a stable and durable film.

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MARCH 17, 2021

It’s been known that dendrites form more rapidly when the current flow is higher—which is generally desirable in order to allow rapid charging. The work was supported by the US Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the MIT-Skoltech Next Generation Program. Eschler, C.M., Fincher, C.D.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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APRIL 12, 2017

ChargePoint, the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network, is rapidly expanding both its technical capability with the introduction of its modular Express Plus EV fast-charging platform (up to 400 kW) ( earlier post ) as well as its geographic reach with its expansion into Europe ( earlier post ). —Simon Lonsdale.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The agency is charged by Congress to maintain US competitiveness in the energy space, which it achieves through targeted support of projects that, if successful, could transform how Americans generate, store and use energy. Featured keynote speakers include Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good, MIT President L.

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APRIL 30, 2014

The energy is stored in the liquid metals that want to react with one another but can do so only by transferring ions across the electrolyte, which results in the flow of electric current out of the battery. When the battery is being charged, some ions migrate through the insulating salt layer to collect at one of the terminals.

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APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

The economics of electric vehicle charging. Jing Li, an assistant professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management, aims to develop a model of consumer vehicle and travel choices based on data regarding travel patterns, electric vehicle (EV) charging demand, and EV adoption. —Jinhua Zhao.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

economical to store or transport. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. carbon atoms, to store energy at ten times greater density than. Supercapacitors store energy in a manner. Ceramatec, Inc. This process.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V in O 2 (gas) → O x− (condensed phase), and η charging > 1.1

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APRIL 23, 2007

The Technology Review published by MIT reports on the hydrogen fuel cell version of the Volt announced in Shanghai. If you're going to the trouble of building a plug-in and therefore have an electric drive train and a battery capable of storing a charge, then you could have a cheap gasoline engine along with you, or an expensive fuel cell."

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AUGUST 17, 2021

John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. However, it currently costs about 50% more than gray H 2 , not including the cost of developing the pipelines and sequestration systems needed to transport and store unwanted CO 2. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. system to pump, heat, store, and discharge the molten glass. electrical battery is being charged. field trials. Halotechnics.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The semi-solid thick electrode is a material science innovation originating in Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang’s lab at MIT. (Dr. Conventional lithium-ion battery cells have a large fraction of inactive, non-charge carrying materials—supporting metals and plastics—that are layered, one-on-top of the other, within a cell’s casing. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Before becoming a research associate at MIT in 1969, he held a variety of positions. Now they are collaborators on a new method to store big data in a tamperproof, zero-energy-cost medium. After Johnson’s tenure on the science committee ended, he and Solomon joined a team at MIT that participated in the collaboration.

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JUNE 22, 2015

The semisolid thick electrode is a material science innovation originating in Dr. Chiang’s lab at MIT. Conventional lithium-ion battery cells have a large fraction of inactive, non-charge carrying materials—supporting metals and plastics—that are layered, one-on-top of the other, within a cell’s casing. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The Materials Project , an open-platform webtool to predict material behavior hosted at DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in collaboration with MIT, is working with Intermolecular, Inc., MIT launching MOOC on innovation and commercialization of materials technologies.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

In each case, electronic fabrics sensitive to vibrations and charge could serve as a foundational technology. Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. Already, engineered fabrics serve crucial functions here on Earth.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

The instant availability of maximum torque makes driving even the most economy-oriented EV way more fun than its ICE counterpart, but few would hold the same opinion about the refueling process, especially at fast charge stations with charging cables that rival a Burmese python in size.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

IEEE Spectrum s most-read energy stories of 2024 centered on creative ways to produce, store and connect more carbon-free energy. In March, Spectrum profiled an MIT spin-off company testing one potential solution: beaming powerful microwaves at rock to vaporize it using a machine called a gyrotron.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Most homeowners have or can easily set up for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) battery charging overnight while the driver sleeps. [ 5 ] Increasing numbers of drivers can get PEV charging at their workplace. [ Slow Level 1 charging [ 11 ] should be used to recharge PHEVLER batteries whenever possible.

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Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT graduates, even revealed an ammonia-electric semi truck at the start of 2023 and had previously modified a John Deere tractor to run on the fuel. It’s relatively energy intensive to produce and brutally difficult to store.

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The new battery also has comparable storage capacity and can be charged up faster than cobalt batteries. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), including one of Indian-origin, have designed a new battery material that could offer a more sustainable, cobalt-free way to power electric cars.

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