Recipients of MITEI seed grants for energy research
September 2008
Seed grants
- PACEM: cooperative control for citywide energy management
- Harold Abelson (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
- Bioinspired hierarchical thermal materials
- Markus Buehler (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- A high-throughput computational approach to finding novel thermoelectric materials
- Gerbrand Ceder (Materials Science and Engineering)
- Self-powered electronic systems
- Anantha Chandrakasan (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
- Energy Initiative computational science: an interdisciplinary, high scale computing and algorithmic approach
- Alan Edelman (Mathematics) and Stephen Connors (MIT Energy Initiative)
- A regionally integrated systems dynamics and energy and material flow model for the Ica region of Peru
- John Fernandez (Architecture), Michael Flaxman (Urban Studies and Planning), and John Sterman (Sloan School of Management)
- Scalable thermoelectric power with novel thin film technology
- Eugene Fitzgerald (Materials Science and Engineering) and Mayank Bulsara (Materials Processing Center)
- Solar PV-thermal hybrid for renewable energy generation in developing countries
- Harold Hemond (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Ahmed Ghoniem (Mechanical Engineering)
- Photonic crystals: enabling efficient energy generation
- John G. Kassakian (Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems) and Marin Soljacic (Physics)
- Do urban energy initiatives actually reduce cities' carbon footprints?
- Judith Layzer (Urban Studies and Planning)
- Carbon nanotube super-springs for energy storage
- Carol Livermore (Mechanical Engineering)
- The social and economic impact of micro-scale hydroelectric power: design for a randomized experiment in rural Indonesia
- Benjamin Olken (Economics)
- Solar thermoelectric generator for the developing world
- Rajeev Ram (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
- Supervalent battery
- Donald Sadoway (Materials Science and Engineering)
- Offshore renewable energy system for generation and storage
- Alexander Slocum (Mechanical Engineering) and James Kirtley (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
- Engineering tolerance in yeast for improved biofuel production
- Gregory Stephanopoulos (Chemical Engineering)
- Millimeter wave deep drilling for geothermal energy, natural gas, and oil
- Paul Woskov (Plasma Science and Fusion Center) and Daniel Cohn (MIT Energy Initiative)
