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Design could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries

How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject

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To advance climate action, MIT seeks partnerships beyond industry

Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

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

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Evelyn Wang

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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

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Controls, Instrumentation + Robotics

Energy Science + Engineering

Ocean Science + Engineering

Bioengineering

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