Faculty
Jeffrey C. Grossman
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Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering B.A. in Physics, Johns Hopkins University, 1991 M.S. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996 Room 13-5049, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 617-324-3566 (phone) 617-252-1175 (fax) |
Disciplines
Research
Jeffrey C. Grossman is the Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois, performed postdoctoral work at U.C. Berkeley, and was a Lawrence Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He returned to Berkeley as Director of a Nanoscience Center and Head of the Computational Nanoscience research group with focus on energy applications. Prof. Grossman joined MIT in summer 2009, assuming a position that was the result of an interdepartmental search organized by the School of Engineering, for faculty pursuing energy research. His group uses theory and simulation to gain fundamental understanding, develop new insights based on this understanding, and then use these insights to develop new materials for energy conversion and storage with improved properties – working closely with experimental groups at each step. He has published more than 80 scientific papers on the topics of solar photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, hydrogen storage, solar fuels, nanomechanical phenomena, and self-assembly. He has appeared on a number of television shows recently to discuss new materials for energy including the Fred Friendly PBS series and the Ecopolis program on the Discovery Channel. He holds 6 current or pending U.S. patents.
Selected Publications
P. A. Greaney and J. C. Grossman, “Nanomechanical Resonance Spectroscopy: A Novel Route to Label-Free Ultra-Sensitive Detection,” NanoLetters 8, 2648 (2008).
L. Wagner and J. C. Grossman, “Light-Induced Defects in Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells,” Physical Review Letters 101, 265501 (2008).
J.-H. Lee, G. Galli, and J. C. Grossman, “Nanoporous Si as an Efficient Thermoelectric Material,” NanoLetters 8, 3750 (2008). [Nature Materials “Highlight”, Nat. Mat. 7, 925 (2008)].
P. A. Greaney, G. Lani, G. Cicero, and J. C. Grossman, "Anomalous Dissipation in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Resonators," NanoLetters 9 3699 (2009).
B. Myers, M. Bernardi, and J. C. Grossman, "Three-dimensional photovoltaics," Applied Physics Letters 96 71902 (2009).
J. C. Grossman, “It’s Time to Blur the Lines Between Basic and Applied Research,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 55, Issue 37, May 22, 2009.
J. Cao, E. Ertekin, V. Srinivasan, W. Fan, S. Huang, H. Zheng, J. W. L. Yim, D. R. Khanal, D. F. Ogletree, J. C. Grossman, and J. Wu, "Strain engineering and one-dimensional organization of metal-insulator domains in single-crystal VO2 beams," Nature Nanotechnology 4 732 (2009).
L. K. Wagner and J. C. Grossman, "Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations for Minimum Energy Structures," Physical Review Letters 104 210201 (2010).
J.-H. Lee, J. Wu, and J. C. Grossman, "Enhancing the Thermoelectric Power Factor with Highly Mismatched Isoelectronic Doping," Physical Review Letters 104 16602 (2010).
Related News
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Using Graphene in Water Desalination Professor Grossman and his group are working on new means of desalinating water using graphene. Here's a video about their project: |
January 10, 2013 |
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On Point hosts technology challenges discussion Professor Grossman participated in this discussion of scientific challenges, hosted by On Point. |
December 14, 2012 |
| 2D Semi-conductor has potential use as solar cell | November 27, 2012 |
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Graphene used in desalination The Grossman group has been working on desalination; graphene sheets with precisely engineering pores may be a new and more efficient approach. |
July 2, 2012 |
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3D Solar Cell Arrays Innovative 3-D designs from ProfessorJeff Grossman's team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area. |
March 27, 2012 |
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MIT Energy Conference features new technologies The MIT Energy Club held the seventh annual Energy Conference this week, and Prof. Jeff Grossman and Prof. |
March 21, 2012 |
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Prof. Jeff Grossman develops solutions to energy problems Prof. Jeff Grossman explores new possibilities in topics from molecules to rooftop solar panels. |
January 26, 2012 |
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News Office coverage of Energy Research at MIT Power UP, a series of articles on energy research at MIT, mentions DMSE researchers performing work on sola |
October 27, 2011 |
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Re-inventing Concrete The Concrete Sustainability Hub was founded at MIT in 2009; the |
October 14, 2011 |
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ARPA-E Funding Announced This week, the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced new grants that will change the way the US produces and uses energy. |
September 30, 2011 |
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New ways to store solar energy |
July 13, 2011 |
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3D Solar Panels to Harvest Steadier Amounts of Sunlight Using a computer program that allows shapes to evolve over time, Jeffrey Grossman and students tested many thousands of shapes to see which would be most efficient at generating electricity. |
April 12, 2010 |
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Prof. Grossman named Sloan Research Fellow The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named 118 Research Fellows for 2010; among them is Prof. Jeff Grossman. |
February 16, 2010 |
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MIT Energy Initiative awards In October 2009, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its fourth round of seed grants supporting innovative, early-stage research projects across the Institute. Total funding of $1.7 million |
December 21, 2009 |
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DMSE Faculty use new methods to understand old materials A computational approach to materials science and engineering could bring new properties even to familiar substances such as concrete and steel. |
October 28, 2009 |
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Prof. Grossman joins MIT faculty Prof. |
August 25, 2009 |
