Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.
Researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from graphene’s imperfect form.
MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.
MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water.
Jeffrey Grossman applies new materials research to making desalination cheaper and more efficient.
Researchers find a way to control the bubbles of boiling water using a small electric charge.
MIT spinout makes treating, recycling highly contaminated oilfield water more economical
Developed by Carlos Riva ’75, a California water plant will be the largest seawater desalination facility in the Western Hemisphere.
Study shows electrodialysis can provide cost-effective treatment of salty water from fracked wells.
Off-grid Indian communities with salty groundwater could get potable water through a proposed solar technique.
MIT study investigates power generation from the meeting of river water and seawater.
The two-step process is better suited for other applications
Oceans at MIT's highlights from MIT Water Night 2014 include nano-technological desalination of seawater, innovative wetland conservation, and ocean carbon cycle research.