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From left: Henry (Pete) La Pierre, Anna Erickson, Martha Grover (photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

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Directed by School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Associate Professor Henry “Pete” La Pierre, the Center will serve to push Georgia Tech to the…

The 2023 Energy Faculty Fellows with the Georgia Tech Hosts

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The 2023 SEI Summer Energy Faculty Fellow Program ended with a closeout reception where the program attendees presented their research work from…

Energy Unplugged 2023 Camp Participants

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The Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center (EPICenter) hosted the 2023 cohort of "Energy Unplugged," an energy-themed Science, Technology,…

A scientist in a white lab coat wearing blue gloves holds a strip of aluminum foil.

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The team’s new battery system could enable electric vehicles to run longer on a single charge and would be cheaper to manufacture — all while…

Portrait of Richard Gruber

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The Strategic Energy Institute and the Venture Lab are excited to welcome Richard Gruber to lead the clean tech commercialization efforts at Georgia…
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm

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Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited Georgia Tech to talk about President Joe Biden's investment in clean energy.
The McDowell Lab at Georgia Tech is Shaping the Future of Battery Technology

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Researching new materials for the next generation of high-capacity batteries is Matthew McDowell, associate professor in the George W. Woodruff…
A closeup of Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower

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The Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) and the Infrastructure & Sustainability (I&S) unit of the Georgia Institute of Technology signed a…
Tim Lieuwen

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Tim Lieuwen has been selected to serve as interim chair of Georgia Tech’s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, effective August 1.…
Photo Credit Ben Gray, AJC. A student wearing a "Serve-Learn-Sustain" tee shirt walks along a campus walkway with a Georgia Tech faculty member.

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Effective July 1, 2023, the current SLS team will establish a new center, the Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (CSCRE),…

GT Energy In The News

Ben Emerson, Georgia Tech Researcher speaking with 11Alive News Anchor
11Alive News

11Alive interviewed the combustion lab's Ben Emerson in their 9:00am show on June 18, 2025.  The subject of the interview was…

Stock Image: Circular Economy; image credit: Pannipa Tansout/iStock.
Times Higher Education

Achieving net zero on college campuses is an ambitious target, but with targeted strategies, universities can help their community…

MP Materials’ Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility is in California near the Nevada border. Tmy350/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
The Conversation
Stryten's Lead Battery Energy Storage System Installation at the Georgia Tech Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Building
ESSNews
Series of Battery Storage Systems (Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Wired
Polymetallic nodules containing certain critical minerals can be found scattered across the seabed in some parts of the ocean. Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019.
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GT Solar Car (Credit: 11Alive News)
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Georgia Tech’s high-voltage circuit breaker quenches arcs with supercritical CO2. Original photo: Emily Waltz
IEEE Spectrum
A Tesla battery pack contains hundreds of cylindrical nickel-manganese-cobalt cells Credit: Getty images
Chemical and Engineering News

Today’s electric vehicles (EVs) mainly use batteries with cathodes made of lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) or lithium…

The high impact between the metal balls in a ball mill reactor and the polymer surface is sufficient to momentarily liquefy the polymer and facilitate chemical reactions. Image created with DALL•E
CEP

In the March issue of CEP , Georgia Tech researchers’ work, supported by NSF, is highlighted in tackling the pressing…