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    ENERGY: PROVIDING CLEANER, MORE EFFICIENT ENERGY

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    Wai Cheng

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    Yajing Zhao SM ’18 won the 2022 Water Innovation Prize for Mesophase

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    Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing

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    Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals

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    Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions

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    Photo Gallery: Visualizing MechE Research: Scientific Photos by Felice Frankel

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    Q&A: Latifah Hamzah ’12 on creating sustainable solutions in Malaysia and beyond

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    A team led by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn shows a new universal descriptor for removal of nitrogen monoxide.

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