Energy Storage

DMSE faculty are exploring many aspects of energy storage, including large-scale grid storage, solar cells, car batteries, and batteries for devices.

Researchers

Iwnetim Abate

Assistant Professor; Chipman Career Development Chair in Materials Science and Engineering

Computational Materials Science; Electrochemistry; Energy Storage; Magnetic Materials; Materials Chemistry; Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films

Angela Belcher

Head of the Department of Biological Engineering; James Mason Crafts Professor; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Bioengineering

Bio; Biotechnology; Energy Storage; Nanotechnology; Polymers

Yet-Ming Chiang

Kyocera Professor; National Academy of Engineering

Ceramics; Electrochemistry; Energy Storage; Materials Processing; Materials Chemistry

Jeffrey C. Grossman

Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Morton and Claire Goulder and Family Professor in Environmental Systems; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; MacVicar Fellow

Computational Materials Science; Condensed Matter Physics; Energy Storage; Materials Chemistry; Nanotechnology

James M. LeBeau

Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Ceramics; Electronic Materials; Energy Storage; Nanotechnology; Structural Materials; Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films

Ju Li

Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Ceramics; Computational Materials Science; Condensed Matter Physics; Electrochemistry; Electronic Materials; Energy Storage; Environment; Corrosion and Environmental Effects; Manufacturing; Materials Processing; Fracture, Fatigue, and Failure of Materials; Mechanical Behavior of Materials; Metallurgy; Nanotechnology; Nanomechanics; Phase Transformations; Semiconductors; Structural Materials; Composites; Thermodynamics; Transport Phenomena

Jennifer L. M. Rupp

Visiting Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Ceramics; Electrochemistry; Electronic Materials; Energy Storage; Materials Processing; Nanotechnology; Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films; Transport Phenomena

Donald R. Sadoway

John F. Elliott Professor Emeritus of Materials Chemistry

Electrochemistry; Energy Storage; Environment; Materials Processing; Materials Chemistry; Metallurgy

Yang Shao-Horn

JR East Professor of Engineering

Electrochemistry; Energy Storage; Materials Chemistry; Nanotechnology; Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films

Carl V. Thompson

Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) at MIT

Electrochemistry; Electronic Materials; Energy Storage; Mechanical Behavior of Materials; MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems); Nanotechnology; Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films

News

A new concept for low-cost batteries

August 24, 2022

Made from inexpensive, abundant materials, an aluminum-sulfur battery could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources.  

Building better batteries, faster

August 24, 2022

PhD student Pablo Leon uses machine learning to expedite research on novel battery materials, while helping newer students navigate graduate school.  

Flexible fiber battery

January 4, 2022

The rechargeable battery can be woven and washed, and could provide power for fiber-based electronic devices and sensors.  

Water oxidation

May 21, 2020

Study unveils details of how a widely used catalyst splits water  

A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don’t pollute

October 30, 2018

Brightly colored molecular models line two walls of Yet-Ming Chiang’s office at MIT. Chiang, a materials science professor and serial battery entrepreneur, has spent much of his career studying how slightly different arrangements of those sticks and spheres add up to radically different outcomes…  

Sadoway on The Future of Battery Storage and Renewable Energies

August 24, 2018

"Recently I had the chance to speak with one of those visionaries: A scientist who has spent an entire career working on (and inventing) grid-level renewable energy storage mechanisms. Professor Donald Sadoway is a current MIT professor, an inventor with over a dozen patents, and a 2012 TIME “…