News: Jeffrey C. Grossman

Manufacturing a cleaner future

December 23, 2022

Startups founded by engineers are at the forefront of developing solutions to mitigate the environmental impact of manufacturing.  

Carbon Building Blocks

April 24, 2020

Coal could someday be used to make a variety of useful devices, researchers suggest.  

A new concept for thermal energy storage

November 30, 2018

More than half of all the energy used to power mechanical, chemical, and other processes is expelled into the environment as heat. Power plants, car engines, and industrial processes, for example, produce vast amounts of heat but use a relatively small fraction of it to actually do work. And…  

Transparent Graphene

September 13, 2018

The vast majority of computing devices today are made from silicon, the second most abundant element on Earth, after oxygen. Silicon can be found in various forms in rocks, clay, sand, and soil. And while it is not the best semiconducting material that exists on the planet, it is by far the most…  

Two Alums selected for MIT Tech Review's 35 Under 35

July 6, 2018

William Woodford, who is a DMSE alumnus, was featured as one of the MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in the category of Entrepreneurs for working to find the next generation of grid-scale batteries.  …  

Study reveals why polymer stents failed

February 27, 2018

MIT Researchers in DMSE and the Institute for Medical Engineering have discovered why biodegradable polymer stents failed over time, hoping to eventually design and evaluate polymer stents more effectively. Jeff Grossman is among several MIT-based authors in a paper that appears in the …  

Investing in Tech That’s Worth the Wait

February 23, 2018

Innovations in fields like energy and transportation often take time—and extra support—to develop. The Engine at MIT is helping them make the leap from the lab to the marketplace. Liquid separation wouldn’t top most people’s lists of world-changing technologies. But consider this: every…  

A new way to store thermal energy

November 17, 2017

In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun during the day, but most cooking takes place later in the evening when the sun is down, using fuel — such as wood, brush or dung — that is collected with significant time and effort. Now, a new chemical…  

2018 Forbes 30 Under 30

November 15, 2017

DMSE adds a few familiar faces to Forbes 30 Under 30. Brent Keller, who is part of Jeff Grossman's group, was listed as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Manufacturing and Industry for co-founding Via Separations. …  

10 years of energy research at MIT

November 14, 2017

Q: What are some of the most significant research impacts the MIT energy community has made over the past decade? A: While the horizon for the majority of energy research we do here at MIT is generally at least several decades, some researchers have already been able to translate their…  

Why researchers should step out of the lab

October 5, 2017

Shreya Dave, Jeff Grossman, and their co-researchers Brent Keller PhD ’16 and Karen Golmer, innovator in residence at MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, have published an account of their experience with learning by stepping out of their labs, using their work on membranes as a…  

Jaden Smith attends 3.091, speaks with MIT department heads

September 22, 2017

After watching a video on YouTube of professor Jeff Grossman giving the Fall 2014 Wulff Lecture titled "Hey Atoms, What Have You Done For Me Lately?", Jaden Smith developed a great interest in meeting with Prof. Grossman to discuss education and the role of science and technology in making the…