In MIT News – Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces

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2023
- Team engineers nanoparticles using ion irradiation to advance clean energy and fuel conversion
  
  The work demonstrates control over key properties leading to better performance.
  
  November 27, 2023
2022
- Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound
  
  A method for stabilizing the interfaces in solid-state lithium-ion batteries opens new possibilities.
  
  March 8, 2022
- New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy
  
  Engineers working on “analog deep learning” have found a way to propel protons through solids at unprecedented speeds.
  
  July 28, 2022
2021
- Six from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2021
  
  APS names Bourouiba, Grego, Liu, Peacock, Winslow, and Yildiz as MIT’s newest fellows for their contributions to physics.
  
  October 18, 2021
- Electrochemistry, from batteries to brains
  
  Professor Bilge Yildiz finds patterns in the behavior of ions across applications.
  
  November 16, 2021
2020
- Engineers design a device that operates like a brain synapse
  
  Ion-based technology may enable energy-efficient simulations of the brain’s learning process, for neural network AI systems.
  
  June 19, 2020
- A material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
  
  Most materials have a fixed ability to conduct heat, but applying voltage to this thin film changes its thermal properties drastically.
  
  February 24, 2020
- Shrinking deep learning’s carbon footprint
  
  Through innovation in software and hardware, researchers move to reduce the financial and environmental costs of modern artificial intelligence
  
  August 7, 2020
2018
- MIT Energy Initiative awards nine Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research
  
  Awardees will use grants to advance research in areas including energy storage, renewables expansion modeling, and the chemistry of electrocatalysts.
  
  June 1, 2018
2017
- New analysis explains role of defects in metal oxides
  
  Harnessing these imperfections could have implications for computer memory and energy conversion.
  
  September 21, 2017
2016
- Researchers find a way to extend life and improve performance of fuel cell electrodes
  
  Surface treatment greatly reduces degradation of catalyst material.
  
  June 13, 2016
- MIT Energy Initiative awards nine seed fund grants for early-stage energy research
  
  Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.
  
  April 25, 2016
- MIT-Imperial College London Seed Fund winners announced
  
  New seed fund encourages collaboration between faculty at MIT and Imperial College London.
  
  April 1, 2016
- How to make metal alloys that stand up to hydrogen
  
  New approach to preventing embrittlement could be useful in nuclear reactors.
  
  March 29, 2016
- Switchable material could enable new memory chips
  
  Small voltage can flip thin film between two crystal states — one metallic, one semiconducting.
  
  January 20, 2016
2015
- New analysis shows ion slowdown in fuel cell material
  
  Dislocations in oxides seen as promising electrolytes create a “traffic jam” for charged ions.
  
  March 2, 2015
2014
- Stretching oxides to modulate electrochemical properties
  
  Grad students Lixin Sun and Qiyang Lu are developing techniques for applying strain to materials to accelerate oxygen-reduction reactions for applications in solid-oxide fuel cells.
  
  October 30, 2014
- Keeping hydrogen from cracking metals
  
  MIT postdoctoral associate Mostafa Youssef and graduate student Aravind Krishnamoorthy tackle different aspects of the problem at atomic scale.
  
  October 27, 2014
- Bilge Yildiz digs deep into surfaces of matter
  
  Research on how surfaces respond under extreme conditions lead to energy advances.
  
  October 21, 2014
- Surface properties command attention
  
  Professor Bilge Yildiz analyzes surfaces of materials to tackle problems as diverse as enabling fuel cells and preventing pipe corrosion.
  
  October 16, 2014
- Designing better surfaces for energy
  
  Bilge Yildiz explores the dynamics of surfaces to design more resilient materials for applications in high-intensity environments.
  
  August 26, 2014
- Going to the Red Planet
  
  An MIT oxygen-creating instrument has been selected to fly on the upcoming Mars 2020 mission.
  
  July 31, 2014
- Altering the energy landscape
  
  Yan Chen’s work on fuel cell catalysts could help integrate new power solutions.
  
  May 13, 2014
- NSE’s Yan Chen wins two prestigious awards
  
  April 3, 2014
- Strain can alter materials’ properties
  
  New field of "strain engineering" could open up areas of materials research with many potential applications.
  
  April 2, 2014
- NSE undergrad Minh Dinh’s love of learning, materials, and programming leads him to research group role
  
  February 12, 2014
2013
- Probing the surface of pyrite
  
  Common mineral gets first detailed examination of its surface electronic properties, thanks to team of MIT researchers.
  
  October 1, 2013
- Unleashing oxygen
  
  ‘Superlattice’ structure could give a huge boost to oxygen reaction in fuel cells, increasing their power potential.
  
  April 30, 2013
2012
- New experiments, new insights into stress corrosion cracking
  
  MIT researchers now have new insights into how 'stress corrosion cracking' may be affected by nanoscale disruptions in the crystalline structure of metallic materials.
  
  December 20, 2012
- Yue Fan awarded Argonne postdoctoral fellowship
  
  December 12, 2012
- Probing the mysteries of cracks and stresses
  
  Analysis of molecular-level fracture and stress mechanisms could have broad implications for understanding materials’ behavior.
  
  September 28, 2012
- Understanding and predicting materials behavior
  
  Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering takes an interdisciplinary approach.
  
  September 26, 2012
- Yildiz wins 2012 Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award
  
  July 27, 2012
- Research team wins Somiya Award for International Collaboration
  
  April 13, 2012
2011
- Bilge Yildiz: New insights into material surfaces advance energy conversion technologies
  
  June 30, 2011
2010
- Nuclear science and engineering graduate student wins NuMat award
  
  Honored for originality of research, quality of presentation at conference
  
  October 18, 2010
- Small-scale understanding, large-scale enhancement
  
  Better fuel cells and reactors, built from the atomic level
  
  July 13, 2010
2009
- New methods are changing old materials
  
  Computational approach to materials science could bring new properties even to familiar substances such as concrete and steel
  
  October 28, 2009