Nanotechnologies for an Efficient Energy Future (Part 1)
Nanotechnologies for an Efficient Energy Future - Part 1 - Prof. Vladimir ...
Please join us for our third MITEI on the Road event of 2011 and hear about promising MIT Energy Initiative research from one of the Institute's leading researchers, Vladimir Bulovi?. The energy-efficient future will be built in part through the adoption of innovative ...
Nanotechnologies for an Efficient Energy Future (Part 2: ...
Nanotechnologies for an Efficient Energy Future - Part 2 - Q & A - Prof. ...
Please join us for our third MITEI on the Road event of 2011 and hear about promising MIT Energy Initiative research from one of the Institute's leading researchers, Vladimir Bulovi?. The energy-efficient future will be built in part through the adoption of innovative ...
Nate Lewis - Sunlight-driven hydrogen formation by ...
Nate Lewis - Sunlight-driven hydrogen formation by membrane-supported ...
This seminar was presented on March 10, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. This talk will discuss the research frontier involved with the development of an integrated system based on semiconductor nanowires that act as artificial photosynthetic pigments, which ...
New Materials - Solar Capture & Storage - MIT Club of ...
New Materials - Solar Capture & Storage - MIT Club of Northern California
Despite the enormous potential of solar power to generate electricity, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is by far the least utilized renewable energy resource today. We need breakthrough advances in materials to capture and store solar energy so we can economically ...
Next Generation Solar Cells _ Lowering Costs, Improving ...
Next Generation Solar Cells _ Lowering Costs, Improving Performance and ...
05/05/2009 6:00 PM MuseumTonio Buonassisi, Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Photovoltaic ResearchDescription: According to Tonio Buonassisi, we're "on the cusp" of achieving a competitive technology for capturing the limitless energy of the sun. Buonassisi, in ...
Niki Gomez, Legatum Fellow
Niki Gomez, Legatum Fellow
Niki Gomez hails from Sri Lanka and is currently a Sloan Fellow in Innovation and Global Leadership at the Sloan School of Management. Her focus is on solar energy development Sri Lanka.
Opening Remarks/How the Brain Invents the Mind
Opening Remarks/How the Brain Invents the Mind
06/06/2009 9:00 AM KresgeDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Rebecca Saxe, PHd 03, Assistant Professor of Cognitive NeuroscienceDescription: In trying financial times, Susan Hockfield remains optimistic and committed to pursuing MIT's massive, multi"year initiatives ...
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT profiles three prominent interdisciplinary researchers at MIT. Profiles include Maria Zuber, a geophysicist renowned for her research on planetary surfaces; Vladimir Bulovi?, an electrical engineer developing lightweight ...
Paper solar cell powers an LED clock
Paper solar cell powers an LED clock
A paper solar cell circuit is shown powering an LCD clock when illuminated. The entire integrated paper photovoltaic is then fed through a roll-to-roll office laser-jet printer. The resulting ink spells MIT on the device side of the paper array, which then continues to power the LCD clock. The ...
Passionate about Energy? How One Volunteer Makes a ...
Passionate about Energy? How One Volunteer Makes a Difference
Learn how Douglas Spreng '65 helps advance the MIT Energy Initiative through networking events and philanthropy and what you can do to get involved.
Paula Hammond on Solar Energy
Paula Hammond on Solar Energy
MIT Professor Paula Hammond talks about the promise of solar energy and why MIT is uniquely positioned to help realize that promise. Interview recorded 4/27/2009.
Personalized Energy
Personalized Energy
09/15/2009 2:00 PM E19Daniel Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry; ; ; Description: Daniel Nocera is swimming very hard against the current of mainstream energy research. While many scientists are figuring out how to scale up wind, geothermal or biomass ...
Profile: Miles Barr
Profile: Miles Barr, winner of the 2012 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Meet Miles Barr, the 2012 $30,000 winner of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventive work with paper solar cells.
Redesigning Solar Power
Redesigning Solar Power
A new lab is inventing innovative ways to package and install solar cells, with the aim of making solar energy far more affordable.
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Center for Excitonics
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Center for Excitonics
The Center for Excitonics is a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Our objective is to supersede traditional electronics with devices that use excitons to mediate the flow of energy. ...
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Marc A. Baldo
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Marc A. Baldo
Professor Marc A. Baldo of MIT discusses research and education in his group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineering at the frontiers of soft semiconductor materials, excitonics, and energy innovation.
Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia
Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia
04/09/2010 12:00 PM E51"345Anatoly Chubais, General Director; Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO); Noubar Afeyan, PhD '87, Managing Partner and CEO, Flagship 87Ventures Description: In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer ...
Science and Technology for a Clean Energy Future
Science and Technology for a Clean Energy Future
05/03/2006 10:00 AM KresgeYang Shao"Horn, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Electrochemical Energy Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering ; Emanuel M. Sachs, '76, SM '76, PhD '83, Fred Fort Flowers '41 and Daniel Fort Flowers '41 Professor of ...
Scot Frank
Scot Frank
Scot Frank is a co-inventor of SolSource, a portable solar concentrator that can be used for heating the home, cooking and electricity generation. It was created to withstand the high winds of remote mountainous regions. Scot Frank and fellow teammates of SolSource Tibet received an IDEAS ...
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation - Kevin Surace - MIT Club of Northern ...
How Inc Magazine's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year built a clean energy company Hear CEO Kevin Surace describe how he injected his entrepreneurial clean tech vision to create the most innovative company ever to hit the building materials industry. How did Serious Energy ...