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Three men in lab coats working at a bench on an experimental setup with tubes, vials, and pumps.

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A team led by Marta Hatzell designed a new electrochemical reactor to seamlessly integrate into direct air capture systems and turn CO2 into useful…
From the Left: SEI Executive Director Tim Lieuwen, U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, Georgia Tech Student Azell Francis, Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Mayor Andre Dickens

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On a recent visit to the Georgia Tech campus, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced that a tri-city alliance of Atlanta, Decatur, and…
Yuanzhi Tang

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Selected from a finalist pool of nine proposals, Associate Professors Yuanzhi Tang and Thackery Brown’s ideas were chosen due to their high potential…
Susan Lozier, Julia Kubanek, L. Beril Toktay, and Tim Lieuwen

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Inaugural College of Sciences research conference and symposium showcases Georgia Tech’s contributions to climate research and solutions.
Chaouki Abdallah speaking at the Georgia Tech Energy Materials Day

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Energy Materials Day was co-hosted by Georgia Tech’s Strategic Energy Institute , the Institute for Materials, and the Georgia Tech Advanced Battery…
Georgia Tech, Tech Tower

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Georgia Tech's Office of Commercialization is proud to announce the launch of Quadrant-i, our latest initiative dedicated to enhancing the…
Jud Ready

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Jud Ready has been selected to join the National Academy of Inventors' 2024 Class of Senior Members.
Omar Asensio, visiting fellow, Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society

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A new study from the School of Public Policy finds that federal housing policies accelerate energy efficiency participation among low and moderate-…
Carson Meredith, Valerie Thomas, Tim Lieuwen

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In January, Georgia Tech researchers were awarded three grants as a part of the Department of Energy’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization…
Matthew McDowell

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Matthew McDowell, Woodruff Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of…

GT Energy In The News

Walter de Heer, a professor of physics at Georgia Institute of Technology, holds a molecular model of graphene in his lab.
Wall Street Journal

A team of scientists have determined graphene, the same substance found in common pencil lead, can act as a semiconductor. Walter…

Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower with the Atlanta midtown skyline in the background
TechXplore

It was a good year for technology research and development, and nothing made the news more often than energy research efforts.…

Panasonic's Powder-Powered batteries to charge EVs
Wired

Sila, Gleb Yushin's battery materials company, will begin supplying to Panasonic, one of the largest EV battery manufacturers.

A geothermal production well and the Blundell Geothermal Power Plant near Milford, Utah. This well provides 400 degree steam and hot water from deep underground to run the turbines at the power plant. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/ Universal Images Group via etty Images
Scientific American

The potential of geothermal energy as a carbon-free power source is well known. Now companies such as Google are helping to unlock…

ORNL’s Climate Change Science Institute and Georgia Tech co-hosted a Southeast Decarbonization Workshop in November 2023. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
ORNL News

November 29, 2023

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Climate Change Science Institute and the Georgia…

A truck is parked betwenn brine evaporation ponds at Albemarle Corp's Silver Peak lithium facility, Oct 6, 2022, in Silver Peeak, Nev. The Energy Department is making a push to strenghten the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023, up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Associated Press

While the funding may not have been make-or-break for them, Matthew McDowell, associate professor of engineering at Georgia…

George White, a principal research engineer and the senior director for Strategic Partnerships at Georgia Tech, and Taiesha Smith, the senior program manager for HBCUs and minority-serving institutions Research Partnerships at Georgia Tech, discuss the goals of the Research Collaboration Initiative. (Courtesy of Georgia Tech)
WABE

With the goal of building a diverse workforce in science and technology, Georgia Tech is working to establish new research…

Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower with the Atlanta midtown skyline in the background
WSB-TV

Are they ready for crazy Atlanta drivers and crazy Atlanta roads here?” Gray asked Georgia Tech professor Srinivas Peeta, who…

Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower with the Atlanta midtown skyline in the background
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Solar Panels
AJC

Suniva had been growing rapidly since its 2007 founding at Georgia Tech. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2017 under…