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MIT hubs explore structural concrete for power storage
Concrete has been used as a building material since 6500BC. Throughout this time, it has been seen solely as a structural material. Today, 14 billion m3 of concrete is poured annually. Recently, considerable efforts have been made to modify concrete…
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MIT ec³ hub Hosts Inauguration Ceremony
We celebrated the formation of the ec³ hub at our September 16th inauguration ceremony, which brought executives and academics from around the world to MIT campus. We thank everyone who joined us for our presentations and poster/tech demo reception for…
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ec³ hub researchers to present at NT24
On June 27th at the NT24 conference, don’t miss Damian Stefaniuk, James Weaver, Admir Masic, and Franz-Josef Ulm’s poster presentation, “Load-Bearing Carbon Cement Supercapacitors for Structural Energy Storage Systems.” The presentation is scheduled between 5:30 and 7:30pm ET in MIT…
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The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery
On a laboratory bench in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a stack of polished cylinders of black-coloured concrete sit bathed in liquid and entwined in cables. To a casual observer, they aren’t doing much. But then Damian Stefaniuk flicks a switch. The blocks…
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MIT conductive concrete consortium cements five-year research agreement with Japanese industry
The MIT Electron-conductive Cement-based Materials Hub (EC^3 Hub), an outgrowth of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub), has been established by a five-year sponsored research agreement with the Aizawa Concrete Corp. In particular, the EC^3 Hub will investigate the infrastructure applications of…
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Is cement the solution to storing renewable energy? Engineers at MIT think so.
MIT researchers say they have developed an energy storage system that could allow homes to store their own power without external batteries and highways to charge electric vehicles as they traveled on the road — no charging stations needed. And…