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JuanpBablo CIrrea-Baena in a lab holding a chip

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Correa-Baena leads the Materials for Solar Energy Harvesting and Conversion research initiative for the Institute for Materials (IMat) and Strategic…
Research collaboration team from GT Research and LG Chem

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Combining industry expertise and Georgia Tech's academic knowledge to advance battery research.
Graphic of a tree of data growing from a hand

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The goals of the funded proposals include identifying prominent emerging research directions on the topic of AI, shaping IDEaS future strategy in the…
Headshots of Jason Azoulay, Natalie Stingline, Jerry Qi.

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ME, MSE researchers lead 3 projects in agency’s new round of advanced materials grants.
Earth (Credit NASA/Joshua Stevens)

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Annalisa Bracco, Taka Ito, and Chris Reinhard from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will create computer models to measure how well CO2…
Panel discussion at the 2023 Clean Cities Georgia Transportation Summit

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The Georgia Tech Energy, Policy and Innovation Center in partnership with the Clean Cities Georgia, Atlanta Gas Light, Georgia Chamber, Georgia Power…
Pictured left to right: Associate Professor Matthew McDowell (ME), Assistant Professor Akanksha Menon (ME), and Assistant Professor Claudio Di Leo (AE).

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Akanksha Menon, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded $3 million in funding from the…
Professor David Sholl

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The NEETER Energy Earthshot Center is focused on developing chemical processes that use sustainable methods instead of burning fossil fuels to…
Two hands holding an example of the DUCKY polymer membranes researchers created to perform the initial separation of crude oils with significantly less energy. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)

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The membranes would improve distillation processes that account for 1% of the world’s energy use.
RFAC gathering

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Research faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology now have their own advocacy group.

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…

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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…

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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…