MIT Clean Energy Prize rewards student innovation
Robust batteries, solar refrigeration, UV membrane cleaner, and smart factory technologies take home $140,000 in prize money.
Robust batteries, solar refrigeration, UV membrane cleaner, and smart factory technologies take home $140,000 in prize money.
Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley discusses current efforts in clean energy innovation and implementation, and what's coming next.
New technologies, systems, and business models are rapidly changing the energy landscape, experts attest.
Assistant professor in EECS is developing materials with novel structures and useful applications, including renewable energy and information storage.
MISTI places MIT students in energy-focused internships abroad.
MIT researchers are optimizing nanostructures for energy devices such as solar cells.
Approach could bypass the time-consuming steps currently needed to test new photovoltaic materials.
An off-grid, battery-less system from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Infinitum Humanitarian Systems will be run indefinitely by a local Boys and Girls Club.
Subnanometer-scale channels in 2-D materials could point toward future electronics, solar cells.
MIT researchers create material for a chemical heat “battery” that could release its energy on demand.
Study of solar pump technology use in India assesses technical performance and explores innovative business cases to increase user adoption.
Novel structures made with DNA scaffolds could be used to create solar-powered materials.
New framework guarantees stability of microgrids that supply local power in developing countries.
“Air-breathing” battery can store electricity for months, for about a fifth the cost of current technologies.
MIT researchers supported by J-WAFS present results of their work on food and water security.