LEMI: Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation

Student Honors (April '13)

Congratulations to Alisha Schor for being selected as a 2013-2014 Martin Fellowship Recipient and to William Braff on earning 2nd place in the 2013 Mechanical Engineering deFlorez Competition. Nice work!

Publication in J. Phys. Chem. (Oct. '12)

Youngsoo's work on fabrication of highly wetting porous surfaces has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

New Team Members (Sep. '12)

LEMI welcomes Bruno Figliuzzi (Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow), Naga Dingari (Ph.D. student), and Qianru Wang (M.S. student).

NSF CAREER Award (Feb. '12)

Professor Buie has received an NSF CAREER Award!

Publication in Lab on a Chip (Feb. '12)

Will's work on three dimensional insulator based dielectrophoresis is published in the journal Lab on a Chip.

LEMI welcomes Soon Ju Choi (Sep. '11)

Soon Ju Choi joins LEMI as a graduate student.

The MIT Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation (LEMI), under the direction of Professor Cullen R. Buie, explores the interactions between mass, charge, and heat transfer in advanced energy conversion devices. Systems of interest include hydrogen fed proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), microbial fuel cells (MFCs), and novel hydrogen generation systems.

Through both traditional and customized experimental techniques, LEMI investigates fundamental physics underlying the optimization of these 21st century electrochemical energy conversion devices. Our laboratory is also interested in various electrokinetic phenomena and microfabrication techniques that can enhance the operation of electrochemical energy systems.