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.
An MIT team is working to harness combustion to yield valuable materials, including some that are critical in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.
MIT Conference on Mining, Environment, and Society convenes academics, industry, policymakers, and NGOs to discuss challenges of supplying the materials for clean energy.
Battery power from electric vehicles to the grid could open a fast lane to a net-zero future.
Branchlike metallic filaments can sap the power of solid-state lithium batteries. A new study explains how they form and how to divert them.
Professor Emeritus Donald Sadoway, renowned electrochemist and influential educator, reflects on 45 years at MIT.
Pacemakers and other medical devices, as well as long-distance drones and remote sensors, could require fewer battery replacements with new approach.
MIT spinout 24M Technologies designed a battery that reduces the cost of manufacturing lithium-ion cells.
New position paper calls for getting stakeholders involved in wind power projects from the start.
Professor Betar Gallant approaches electrochemistry with a strong inclination, inherited from her family, to work things out independently.
Made from inexpensive, abundant materials, an aluminum-sulfur battery could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources.
PhD student Pablo Leon uses machine learning to expedite research on novel battery materials, while helping newer students navigate graduate school.
The MIT professor's work could enable long-term storage of renewable energy.
MIT alumni-founded OnePower is building minigrids to power villages across the small, mountainous country.
MIT Energy Initiative report supports energy storage paired with renewable energy to achieve clean energy grids.
Engineers have developed a glucose power source that could fuel miniature implants and sensors.