Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), www.mit.edu, Cambridge, MA is the globally number 1 ranked institution of research and higher education (based on Quacquarelli Symonds ranking in 2012-2013), with over 25,000 existing spawn out companies that collectively employ 3.3 million people and generate over $2 trillion annually (equivalent of 11th largest economy in the world), according to a 2009 study by Kaufman Foundation
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2010
20 Aug 2010
All charged up
Ability to recharge rapidly could make electric cars more acceptable to consumers, says MIT student team.12 Aug 2010
Real Time Locating and Wireless Sensor Networks - Rapid Advances
In the past, too much use of RFID has involved sensing items and conveyances only when they pass very near to the occasional interrogator. Heroic assumptions are then made about what happened in between. Was it destroyed, perhaps by overheating? Is it still there? Is it intact?10 Aug 2010
Illuminex Corporation closes angel round of funding
Nanomaterial firm closes $500K angel financing round to commercialize patented nanowire array based technologies for solar cells, lithium-ion battery anodes, and thermal management materials all based on the company's core nanowire array production capabilities.10 Aug 2010
Energy harvesting concept chairs
Two concept chairs that use the power of human motion to create power to charge up portable devices.22 Jul 2010
Charging EVs from bumps in the road - Part two
In our article More Power from Bumps in the Road we described work at MIT on energy harvesting shock absorbers where one such device on a truck can generate as much as one kilowatt electrodynamically.16 Jul 2010
Piezoelectric fabric that can detect and produce sound
For the past decade, Yoel Fink, an associate professor of materials science and principal investigator at MIT's Research Lab of Electronics, has been working to develop fibers with ever more sophisticated properties, to enable fabrics that can interact with their environment.15 Jul 2010
Plasmonics improve solar cells
Catchpole's experimental devices produce 30 percent more electrical current than conventional thin-film silicon cells.25 Jun 2010
Carbon nanotubes produce powerful waves
A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say.23 Jun 2010
Lithium batteries on Steroids at MIT
MIT researchers report this month that they have found a way to produce a tenfold increase in the power delivery ("power density") of lithium ion batteries.23 Jun 2010
Enhancing the power of batteries
MIT team finds that using carbon nanotubes in a lithium battery can dramatically improve its energy capacity4 Jun 2010
Electric cars - learning from the past
In 1880, they said that the future of the car was electric. In April 2010, Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company said "It appears that the biggest game-changer will be electric vehicles."18 May 2010
Si nanowire improves photovoltaics and batteries
We believe Illuminex has world-leading nanowire manufacturing capabilities in terms of breadth of materials, substrates, shapes and structures.17 May 2010
Silicon lithium battery breakthrough
Illuminex was founded by MIT PhD nanomaterial scientists and based in Lancaster PA . It is commercializing platform nanowire array process technology enabling innovative functional, smart, nano-structured materials11 May 2010
MIT and Eni open Solar Frontiers Center
MIT and Eni launch Solar Frontiers Center12 Apr 2010
A step toward lighter batteries
Lightweight batteries that can deliver lots of energy are crucial for improving the range of electric cars.19 Mar 2010
Improved thermoelectric coupling
Thermoelectric energy harvesting is less popular than the three leading forms of energy harvesting - photovoltaics, electrodynamics and piezoelectrics.5 Mar 2010
The glamorous world of energy harvesting
Energy harvesting is the use of ambient energy to create electricity for small or mobile equipment and it started with such things as the bicycle dynamo and the piezoelectric gas lighter.22 Feb 2010
Thermoelectrics in inaccessible places
Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT's Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories, and Yogesh Ramadass (PhD '09) believe they have figured out how to avoid doctors getting beneath a patient's skin to replace batteries for implanted biomedical monitoring or treatment systems.8 Jan 2010
QUE pro-Reader aimed at the business professional
Plastic Logic's long awaited "QUE" pro-Reader was unveiled at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday. Unlike other e-readers this device is being marketed to the business professional.2009
21 Dec 2009
Copenhagen Wheel harvests cyclist's energy
On the 15th December at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, MIT researchers introduced the Copenhagen Wheel — a revolutionary new bicycle wheel that not only boosts power, but can keep track of friends, fitness, smog and traffic.