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Burning things to make things
Sili Deng, the Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion technologies. More
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New prediction model could improve the reliability of fusion power plants
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Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power
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Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel
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