Research Focus Areas

SESAME

Evaluating the impacts of the global energy system

Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER)

The Future of Energy Storage

Chemical reactions for the energy transition

New insights reveal pathways to improvement

New England renewables + Canadian hydropower

A pathway to clean electricity in 2050

Using nature’s structures in wooden buildings

Tools for designing with forked tree branches

Tracking emissions in China

Good news, some concerns

Making a remarkable material even better

Transparent aerogels for solar devices, windows

Manufacturing consumer products

A greener way to make raw materials

Renewable energy and carbon pricing policies

State-level adoption saves money and lives

Finding novel materials for practical devices

New machine learning technique can help

Removing CO2 from power plant exhaust

Combining capture and disposal

Protecting our energy infrastructure

New analysis targets cybersafety

Understanding how plants use sunlight

Possible pathway to more biomass and crops

Saving heat until you need it

A new concept for thermal energy storage

Accelerating 3D printing

Faster fabrication, renewable materials

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World

Getting the world off dirty diesels

Gasoline-alcohol engines for heavy-duty trucks

Fabrication of new materials

Designing “recipes” using artificial intelligence

Cooling buildings worldwide

Analysis points the way to energy-efficient systems

Quantum dot materials

Optimizing nanostructures for energy devices

State-level renewable energy policies

Strengthening critical public support

Making appliances—and energy grids—more efficient

Conserving energy with the ideal ceiling fan

Carbon-nanotube electrodes

Tailoring designs for energy storage, desalination

Reducing risk in power generation planning

Why including non-carbon options is key

Liquid tin-sulfur compound shows thermoelectric potential

Producing electricity from industrial waste heat

Better catalysts for energy storage devices

Providing a new understanding of catalysts

Limiting global warming

More aggressive measures are needed

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program

Formation of Isoporous Free Volume Elements Using UV Acidolysis Reactions

Electrochemical manufacturing of methanol from carbon dioxide feedstocks

Cost-competitive electric vehicles that go the distance

Detailed look at 125 U.S. auto models

Converting greenhouse gas into fuel

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

Mobility of the Future

Deep borehole disposal of spent nuclear fuel

Low-cost energy storage and energy sink technologies

Fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactors

Advanced modeling and simulation of neutronic and thermal-hydraulic behavior

On the Road toward 2050

Three paths forward for light-duty vehicles

CoalMap

A tool to map cost-competitiveness of coal & renewables

The Future of Solar Energy

Investigating carbon emissions in China

Can new policies curtail their growth?

Utility of the Future

Discarded car batteries

Recovering material for novel solar cells

A new look for nuclear power

Assessing climate impacts of energy technologies

A new accounting of methane’s role

Novel bromine battery

Developing a battery to harness intermittent renewables

Rural electrification

New models help electrify rural India

Underground storage of carbon dioxide

Towards a safer, more effective sequestration process

Nanowires and graphene

Keys to low-cost, flexible solar cells

Solar photovoltaic technologies

MIT researchers explore silicon and beyond

Regulating particulate pollution

Novel analysis yields new insights

Urban sustainability

Designing resource-efficient, appealing cities

Microgrid

A small-scale, flexible, reliable source of energy

The Future of the Electric Grid

The Future of Natural Gas

The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Subsidies for clean energy

Designing incentives for green technology adoption

Energy-efficient air conditioning

Broad applications for new, low-cost porous materials

High-performance flywheels for energy storage

Compact, durable motors that don't overheat

Interconnections among energy, water, and food

The effects of water pumping in Pakistan's Indus Basin

Theory of ultrafast li-ion battery materials

Explaining the high performance of a promising material

Building façades that move, textiles that illuminate

A pathway to flexible, resilient architecture

Lithium air batteries

New catalysts lead to unprecedented efficiency

Thermophotovoltaics

Enabling efficient energy generation

Batteryless energy harvester

Running electronics on body heat

Batteries from molten metals

Low-cost, long-lasting storage for the grid

Nano-structured alloys against corrosion in advanced nuclear plants

Understanding corrosion in power plants & other systems

The Future of Coal

The Future of Geothermal Energy

Public Awareness of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Survey of Attitudes toward Climate Change Mitigation

Sociopolitical Challenges to the Siting of Facilities with Perceived Environmental Risks

The Future of Nuclear Power

The Hawaii Carbon Dioxide Ocean Sequestration Field Experiment: A Case Study in Public Perceptions and Institutional Effectiveness

Multi-fidelity floating wind optimization tool

Modeling and computation study for optimal expansion and operation of decarbonized power systems

Energy efficiency behavioral experiment

[Fusion] Plasma control system-machine learning toolkit for demonstration levitated magnet system

CO2 migration along faults in carbon capture and sequestration projects: Field validation and stochastic modeling of fault properties

[Fusion] Development of laser-based high-heat flux test stand

Toward enhanced microgrid performance: Benchmarking with existing operations and control on real world microgrids

Lithium extraction using a hybrid electrochemical thermal process

The place of provincial and international trade in Electric Power to maximize the value of Québec’s hydro resources

Opportunities for class-leading hydrogen sensors

Developing models to understand opportunities and challenges for electrochemically-mediated carbon capture systems

Integrated CO2 capture with mists and conversion to high-value products

Data-centric machine learning system for predictions for wind turbine maintenance

Development of novel two-dimensional polymer membranes for liquid separations

Electrochemically-stimulated desorption: A scalable and flexible solution for hydrogen energy industry

Realistic, scalable, and security-constrained capacity planning for reliable low-carbon power systems

Design and evaluation of novel iono-electronic polymer composites as electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage

Evolution of environmental, social and governance metrics and their use in corporate governance for critical minerals

Ortho-para conversion reactor and a new catalyst for optimized LH2 production

Synthetic mooring systems for floating wind turbines