Recipients of MITEI seed grants for energy research
April 2009
Seed grants
- Supramolecular self-assembly of photosynthetic materials: towards design principles for more efficient light harvesting systems
- Alfredo Alexander-Katz (Materials Science and Engineering)
- Assessment of the energy savings potential of leading edge façade technologies with new performance metrics
- Marilyne Andersen (Architecture)
- Neodymium for infrared luminescent solar concentrators
- Marc Baldo (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
- Understanding the effect of nano-scale surface structures on bubble nucleation and boiling heat transfer
- Jacopo Buongiorno (Nuclear Science and Engineering) and Karl Berggren (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
- Investigation of an inexpensive surface alloy catalyst for hydrogen fuel cells and the role of a novel excited proton in the oxidation reduction reaction
- Sylvia Ceyer (Chemistry)
- Design of novel biofuels: biosynthesis and predicted fuel performance
- William Green and Kristala Jones Prather (Chemical Engineering)
- Bio-inspired underwater adhesion system for deep-sea oil mining
- Sangbae Kim (Mechanical Engineering)
- Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction using intramolecular secondary interactions
- Jonas Peters (Chemistry)
- MIT Enernet: matching horsepower with brainpower
- Carlo Ratti (Urban Studies and Planning), Neil Gershenfeld (Media Arts and Sciences), and Harvey Michaels (Urban Studies and Planning)
- Heterostructured oxides for energy storage
- Caroline Ross (Materials Science and Engineering) and Yang Shao-Horn (Mechanical Engineering)
- Optimization of coherent energy transfer in photosynthetic systems
- Robert Silbey and Jianshu Cao (Chemistry)
- Nanoengineered surfaces for enhanced phase-change heat transfer for applications in energy and desalination systems
- Kripa Varanasi (Mechanical Engineering)
Planning grants
- SOFT CITIES: design of thin-film solar textile systems for the sustainable retrofit of dense urban fabric
- Sheila Kennedy (Architecture)
- Integrated modeling for sustainable metropolitan mobility
- P. Christopher Zegras (Urban Studies and Planning), Moshe Ben-Akiva (Civil and Environmental Engineering), and Carlo Ratti (Urban Studies and Planning)
