Martin Z. Bazant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 25 Ames Street, Room 66-552 Cambridge, MA 02139 Email: bazant _at_ mit.edu Adminstrative Assistant: Barbara Balkwill (617) 324-2036 phone, 258-5766 fax

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What's New

• Just published: Theory of chemical kinetics and charge transfer based on nonequilibrium thermodynamics, Accounts of Chemical Research (invited article).

• Revealing how a battery material works

• Recent publications

• 10.626 Electrochemical Energy Systems is now offered for undergraduates as 10.426, approved elective for Course 2A, 10-ENG, 16-ENG, and the Energy Minor.

• ICREA Symposium on Nanofluidics, Colloids and Membranes, Barcelona, Spain, July 16-18, 2012

• Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena, book chapter in Electrokinetics and Electrohydrodynamics of Microsystems, ed. by A. Ramos (Springer, 2011).

• Academic success stories:
  • Ali Mani (postdoc 2011) became an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University

  • Ken Kamrin (PhD 2008) won the 2010 Nicholas Metropolis Award and became an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. His work on granular flow is in the news.

  • Chris Rycroft (PhD 2007) became a Morrey Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley. His work on Voronoi tesselation is in the news.

• IAP Training Sessinon for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Are you MIT's next "Dream Team"?

• After a brief hiatus, the EDIP homepage is back!