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Basic Energy Science

Research at the atomic and molecular levels, providing the scientific underpinnings for new energy technologies

Image from Making electricity with photovoltaics, Energy Futures, Spring 2011 Credit: Justin Knight

Research

Converting greenhouse gas into fuel

New catalyst provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions

Novel metallic gels that fluoresce

Color-coded sensors with a range of energy applications

Thermophotovoltaics

Enabling efficient energy generation

Batteryless energy harvester

Running electronics on body heat

Publications

Journal Articles

Tuning of Silver Catalyst Mesostructure Promotes Selective Carbon Dioxide Conversion into Fuels

November 2016

Yogesh Surendranath
Journal Articles

A high-resolution and large force-range load cell by means of nonlinear cantilever beams

January 2016

Themistoklis Sapsis, Alexander Slocum
Journal Articles

Controlling Hydrogel Mechanics via Bio-Inspired Polymer–Nanoparticle Bond Dynamics

December 2015

Niels Holten-Andersen

News

Building bonds in chemistry, laying the foundation for new energy technologies
Liquid tin-sulfur compound shows thermoelectric potential
High-temperature devices made from films that bend as they “breathe”

People

Antoine Allanore Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Robert Armstrong Director

MIT Energy Initiative
Karl Berggren Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Daniel Blankschtein Professor

Chemical Engineering
Richard Braatz Professor

Chemical Engineering
Fikile Brushett Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Jianshu Cao Professor

Chemistry
Sylvia Ceyer Professor

Chemistry
Robert Cohen Associate Director and Professor

Chemical Engineering
Charles Cooney Professor

Chemical Engineering
Erik Demaine Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Laurent Demanet Professor

Mathematics
Gerald Fink Professor

Biology
Dennis Frenchman Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Nuh Gedik Associate Professor

Physics
Ahmed Ghoniem Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Judy Hoyt Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Klavs Jensen Professor

Chemical Engineering
Jeremiah Johnson Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Ruben Juanes Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Heather Kulik Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Karthish Manthiram Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Youssef Marzouk Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Tomás Palacios Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Caroline Ross Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Gregory Rutledge Professor

Chemical Engineering
Donald Sadoway Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Zachary Smith Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Zoltan Spakovszky Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Yogesh Surendranath Associate Director, CCUS center; Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Troy Van Voorhis Professor

Chemistry
Paul Woskov Associate Department Head

Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Nicholas Xuanlai Fang Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Markus Zahn Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science