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Professor Don Sadoway gets ARPA-E Funding
Professor Don Sadoway receives funding for 1 of the 37 Department of Energy's ARPA-E projects to pursue breakthroughs that could fundamentally change the way we use and produce energy.
San Francisco, CA - The Department of Energy today announced major funding for 37 ambitious research projects - including some that could allow intermittent energy sources like wind and solar to provide a steady flow of power, or use bacteria to produce automotive fuel from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.
Liquid Metal Grid-Scale Batteries: Created by Professor Don Sadoway, a leading MIT battery scientist, the all-liquid metal battery is based on low cost, domestically available liquid metals with potential to break through the cost barrier required for mass adoption of large scale energy storage as part of the nation's energy grid. If successful, this battery technology could revolutionize the way electricity is used and produced on the grid, enabling round-the-clock power from America's wind and solar power resources,increasing the stability of the grid, and making blackouts a thing of the past. And if deployed at homes, it could allow individual consumers the ability to be part of a future "smart energy Internet," where they would have much greater control over their energy usage and delivery.
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Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins Packard Fellowship
MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor industry and quantum computing.
The five-year, $875,000 grant will allow Jarillo-Herrero to explore the unique features of graphene and a type of materials known as topological insulators, whose electrons display unique behavior.
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