New fuel cell could enable electric aviation
These devices could pack three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries, offering a lightweight option for powering trucks, planes, or ships.
These devices could pack three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries, offering a lightweight option for powering trucks, planes, or ships.
The MIT Electric Vehicle Team, Sustainable Engine Team, Solar Electric Vehicle Team, Motorsports Team, First Nations Launch Team, and Arcturus are each doing their part to improve the health of our planet.
MIT engineers have developed a fast and sustainable method for producing hydrogen fuel using aluminum, saltwater, and coffee grounds.
MIT Electric Vehicle Team builds a unique hydrogen fuel cell–powered electric motorcycle.
Fall 2023 Wulff Lecture speaker Sossina Haile ’86, PhD ’92 uses ammonia and a “superprotonic” material for efficient and eco-friendly energy generation.
The approach directly converts the greenhouse gas into formate, a solid fuel that can be stored indefinitely and could be used to heat homes or power industries.
High school students spend time at MIT building a low-cost fuel cell.
Award recognizes scientists of Turkish origin younger than 50 who have made outstanding contributions to their fields.
MIT researchers find that changing the pH of a system solves a decades-old problem.
Hydrogen fuel has long been seen as a potentially key component of a carbon-neutral future. At the 2022 MIT Energy Initiative Spring Symposium, industry experts describe efforts to produce it at scale.
New technology could help generate hydrogen and chemical industry ingredients.
With many devices depending on the motion of ions, light could be used as a switch to turn ion motion on and off.
Professor Bilge Yildiz finds patterns in the behavior of ions across applications.
Surface treatment greatly reduces degradation of catalyst material.
Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.