Category: Energy & Environment
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$3M to boost state-of-the-art solar manufacturing
An effort led by U-M could enable industrial competitors to collectively build a predictive model that speeds the development of advanced solar cells.
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U-M’s MI-Hydrogen to participate in new Midwest hydrogen hub
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that the Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen is selected as regional clean hydrogen hub.
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Outsmarting floodwaters
The world needs better tools to protect people during floods. A new machine learning method could help.
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Electric aviation: Battery experts, aero entrepreneurs, state leaders and venture capitalists converge
‘Here, we have industry and expertise. Take that and combine it with belief—and magic happens.’
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$7.5M to advance nuclear energy awarded to U-M
The Department of Energy will support research into faster reactor licensing, just energy transitions, and more.
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$1.3M to improve urea fertilizer production and reduce CO2 emissions
Rather than contributing to emissions, the production of an essential fertilizer could consume carbon dioxide, and a U-M team will explore such a method.
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$18M to advance materials research for quantum computing, sustainable plastics and more
New center builds a campus-wide ecosystem for designing and manufacturing materials of the future at U-M while training a more representative workforce.
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Demystifying vortex rings in nuclear fusion, supernovae
A mathematical model linking these vortices with more pedestrian types, like smoke rings, could help engineers control their behavior in power generation and more.
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Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Microplastic pollution can be spotted from space because its traveling companion alters the roughness of the ocean’s surface.
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Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power
Withstanding high temperatures and the light of 160 suns, a new catalyst is ten times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind.
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‘I’m supposed to be here’
A Ph.D. student shares his remarkable path from Cuba to chemical engineering at U-M.
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New activity trackers for dolphin conservation
Experiments with custom-made biologging devices offer new insight into dolphin swimming and energy requirements.