Dirty physics
Franz-Josef Ulm explores the physics of dirty materials and messy systems to advance sustainable infrastructure and clean energy technology.
Franz-Josef Ulm explores the physics of dirty materials and messy systems to advance sustainable infrastructure and clean energy technology.
New design could finally help to bring the long-sought power source closer to reality.
$4 million grant will determine whether travel choices can be influenced by data and rewards to save energy.
MIT spinout Jisto helps companies optimize utilization with real-time deployment, monitoring, and analytics.
Gallium nitride electronics could drastically cut energy usage in data centers, consumer devices.
New insights into a promising approach to fuel production that would reduce costs, energy use, and carbon dioxide emissions.
Sourcewater pioneers an exchange for trading and recycling water for oil and gas production and other operations.
MIT spinout makes treating, recycling highly contaminated oilfield water more economical
The structure may help scientists identify radiation-remediation strategies in space.
MIT representatives shared emerging energy technologies at an influential conference rife with world leaders.
A nuclear power plant that will float eight or more miles out to sea promises to be safer, cheaper, and easier to deploy than today’s land-based plants.
Reinventing how these batteries are made also improves their performance and recyclability.
New ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 percent.