Fuel cells

MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn, center, speaks to Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES) researchers from MIT and Moscow State University during a meeting at the MIT Materials Processing Center in February. Listening are MIT Professor Paula Hammond (left) and Skoltech CEES Director Keith Stevenson, who is based in Moscow.

Fostering U.S.-Russia energy innovation

Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage brings together researchers from MIT and two Russian institutes to develop advanced batteries and fuel cells.

April 10, 2015

Materials Processing Center marks 35 years

Service to faculty, collaboration with industry are hallmarks of campus-based Materials Processing Center at MIT.

March 6, 2015

Man holding chemistry equipment up to look at it

Surprising reactions

July 23, 2014

Microbes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech

Cullen Buie manipulates micro-scale phenomena to optimize energy conversion devices.

May 28, 2014

Yan Chen, a graduate student in nuclear science and engineering.

Altering the energy landscape

Yan Chen’s work on fuel cell catalysts could help integrate new power solutions.

May 13, 2014

This illustration shows a battery electrode made of lithium iron phosphate (left side of image) coated with carbon, and in contact with an electrolyte material. As the battery is discharged, lithium ions (shown in purple) jump across the coating and insert themselves into the crystal structure, while electrons (shown as circles with minus signs) in the carbon-coating tunnel into the material and a...

How electrodes charge and discharge

New MIT analysis probes charge transfer in porous battery electrodes for the first time.

April 3, 2014

In this illustration, the background shows a perovskite oxide structure, an example of the kinds of oxides Bilge Yildiz studies. By straining this material (as illustrated in the right-hand foreground image), the energy barrier to surface reactions is reduced. These energy barriers are shown by the three-dimensional graphs in the foreground images.

Strain can alter materials’ properties

New field of "strain engineering" could open up areas of materials research with many potential applications.

April 2, 2014

New rechargeable flow battery enables cheaper, large-scale energy storage

Design may support widespread use of solar and wind energy.

August 16, 2013

Wesley Hong in the Electrochemical Energy Lab of MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn.

Tuning metal-oxygen bond strength

Controlling spin state through strain could lead to better cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells

August 5, 2013

Kelsey Stoerzinger at hood where she conducts experiments on electrolytic catalysts in water-based solutions.

Maximizing oxygen reduction

Kelsey Stoerzinger identifies highest manganese activity.

July 19, 2013

The MIT team used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to study the electrical activity of a superlattice material composed of two different compounds of the elements strontium, lanthanum and cobalt. At bottom, a diagram of how they "sliced" the material on an angle to expose wider bands of the thin layers of material. The center two images show the resulting measurements of the surface topograph...

Unleashing oxygen

‘Superlattice’ structure could give a huge boost to oxygen reaction in fuel cells, increasing their power potential.

April 30, 2013

This silicon wafer consists of glucose fuel cells of varying sizes; the largest is 64 by 64 mm.

New energy source for future medical implants: sugar

Implantable fuel cell built at MIT could power neural prosthetics that help patients regain control of limbs.

June 12, 2012

Toyota's Tom Stricker talks about the Open Fuel Standard. The event was hosted by the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and MIT Energy Initiative.

Our gasoline-free future and how to get there

Toyota’s Tom Stricker shares his view with the MIT community.

April 23, 2012

Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Student Jin Suntivich (left) and Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Kevin J. May (right) inspecting the electrochemical cell for oxygen evolution reaction experiment.

Highly efficient oxygen catalyst found

New catalyst, made of inexpensive and abundant materials, could prove useful in rechargeable batteries and hydrogen-fuel production.

October 28, 2011

Professor Bilge Yildiz with a surface science system including a variable temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM), non-contact atomic force microscope (nc-AFM), and X-ray photoelectron spectrometer. The system enables users to perform STM/nc-AFM measurements at elevated temperatures and reactive gas environments.

Small-scale understanding, large-scale enhancement

Better fuel cells and reactors, built from the atomic level

July 13, 2010

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