Shao-Horn

Prof. Yang Shao-Horn and colleagues have found that using carbon nanotubes for a battery electrode produced a significant increase, up to tenfold, in the amount of power it could deliver from a given weight of material, compared to a conventional lithium-ion battery. Their research is published in the June 20, 2010, issue of  Nature Nanotechnology. Learn more from the MIT News Office.
 

Research from Prof. Yang Shao-Horn and her collaborators has great potential to improve the efficiency of lithium-air batteries, perhaps making them practical for use in electric cars.  Learn more from Technology Review.

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 was awarded to 12 projects, each lasting between one and two years.
Recipients from DMSE included Yoel Fink, Silvija Gradecak, Jeffrey Grossman, Yang Shao-Horn, Ned Thomas, Carl Thompson, and Harry Tuller.
An overview of the projects is available at the MITEI site.

Prof. Yang Shao-Horn and her colleague, Prof. Paula Hammond of ChemE, have made pure, dense, thin films of carbon nanotubes that show may have potential use as electrodes for higher-capacity batteries. See Technology Review for further details.

The Magliozzi brothers, hosts of NPR's Car Talk, visited MIT to meet with researchers pursuing advances in automotive energy issues.  Among those they met were Prof. Gerd Ceder and Prof. Yang Shao-Horn. For the full story, see the MIT News Office.