Spring 2013 Seed Fund Projects

More than $2 million awarded to 14 projects across four schools and nine departments


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Climate Change Policy that Makes Economic Sense

Climate Change Policy that Makes Economic Sense

Professor Christopher Knittel of the MIT Sloan School of Management

April 22, 2013

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Meet our faculty

John Vander Sande

John Vander Sande

Professor Emeritus

Materials Science and Engineering Read more

News

Secret of efficient photosynthesis is decoded

Secret of efficient photosynthesis is decoded

MIT researchers find that the key to purple bacteria’s light-harvesting prowess lies in highly symmetrical molecules.

May 16, 2013Read more

Earth Abundant Molten Thermoelectric Materials
Antoine Allanore, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Materials Science and Engineering

An Immiscible Organic | Aqueous Liquid Flow Battery for Stationary Energy Storage
Fikile R. Brushett, Chemical Engineering

Energy-Efficient Algorithms for Big Data
Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Interferometric Waveform Inversion
Laurent Demanet, Mathematics

How large is the impact of transportation infrastructure on economic growth and the demand for energy?  A new perspective from China, as seen from outer space, 1972-2011
David Donaldson, Economics

Hybrid Energy Harvesting Devices
Silvija Gradecak, Materials Science and Engineering

Enhanced Pseudo-Capacitors for Energy Storage and Water Treatment
T. Alan Hatton, Gregory C. Rutledge, Chemical Engineering

Quantifying leakage risks in geological CO2 sequestration and shale-gas production
Ruben Juanes, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Bradford Hager, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Dynamically Tunable Catalysts for CO2 Capture and Conversion to Cyclic Carbonates
Alexie Kolpak, Mechanical Engineering

MACE-Meter: Multi-utility Access Consumption Evaluation Meter
Steven B. Leeb, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Acetic acid from methane: Coupling methane oxidation and carbonylation on Cu-exchanged zeolites
Yuriy Roman, Chemical Engineering

Improving Methods to Assess Multipollutant Regulatory Outcomes
Noelle Selin, Engineering Systems Division; Susan Solomon, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; John Reilly, Management

Advanced Thermal Storage with Water Stable MOFs for Building Climate Control
Evelyn Wang, Mechanical Engineering

Optimum decision-making in reservoir management using reduced-order models
John R. Williams, Civil and Environmental Engineering