With just a little electricity, MIT researchers boost common catalytic reactions
Applying a small voltage to a catalyst can increase the rates of reactions used in petrochemical processing, pharmaceutical manufacture, and many other processes.
Applying a small voltage to a catalyst can increase the rates of reactions used in petrochemical processing, pharmaceutical manufacture, and many other processes.
The finding provides new insights into the ultrafast control of magnetic materials, with potential to enable next-generation information processing technologies.
The advance opens a path to next-generation devices with unique optical and electronic properties.
MIT students traveled to Washington to speak to representatives from several federal executive agencies.
Core-shell structures made of hydrogel could enable more efficient uptake in the body.
At the 2023 Clean Energy Education and Empowerment symposium, participants emphasize working together to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
The MIT Energy Initiative’s Annual Research Conference highlights strategies for implementing large-scale reductions in the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
The advance brings quantum error correction a step closer to reality.
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center will receive DoE support to improve access to fusion data and increase workforce diversity.
A new study finds system deployment processes have been slow to improve over time — but must be addressed to lower clean energy costs in the future.
MIT engineers developed a new way to create these arrays, by scaffolding quantum rods onto patterned DNA.
The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency.
The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.
A new way of machining microscale rotors from diamond crystal can enable ultrasensitive NMR devices for probing proteins and other materials.