President Obama announced the nomination of Dr. Dave Danielson as assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy in the Energy Department. Learn more from The Hill.
Earlier this week, Prof. Don Sadoway gave a talk about liquid metal batteries for large-scale energy storage and non lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications, at an event organized by the MIT Club of Northern California. GreenTech Media covered the talk. Updated: here's a video of the talk:
Self-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states — such as color or size — without provocation from external stimuli. Irene Chen, a member of Prof. Krystyn Van Vliet's group, studies these gels to understand their behavior.
Prof. Jeff Grossman explains fulvalene diruthenium, can store and release the sun's heat on demand. Learn more from Softpedia and from the MIT News Office.
