Earlier this year, Tshitoyan et al. published a paper on using unsupervised machine learning of materials science journal abstracts. Based on this unsupervised learning, the algorithm used was able to identify the underlying structure...
Wenhao Sun, a post-doc from our group, received awards for both Best Talk and Best Poster at the MRS Fall 2018 Meeting. He received a Best Talk award for his talk, “Nucleation of Metastable...
On Wednesday, December 19, the battery of a Tesla Model S vehicle caught on fire twice, leaving the car a smoldering mess. Tesla says its cars are designed with firewalls to prevent flames...
A recent article by Greg Satell on Inc describes some of the history of the Materials Project, from its inception by the Ceder group at MIT to its expansion through the Persson group at...
Berkeley news posts on the group’s Nature article on using the Mn2+/Mn4+ redox for Li-excess disordered rock salt cathode materials. See the post, which summarizes the article and describes the impact of the...
Professor Gerbrand Ceder is one of five members of TMS (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society) to receive the TMS Class of 2018 Fellow Award. This award is presented to TMS members who...
Today’s lithium-ion battery was invented so long ago, there are not many more efficiencies to wring out of it. Now researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report major...
Professor Gerbrand Ceder appeared on September 10, 2017 as a guest battery expert on the Verify series of WUSA 9, a CBS-affiliated TV station in the Washing DC area. In this video, WUSA 9...
Haegyeom Kim was recently awarded the ECS Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award, sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation. The award will be presented at the 2017 Fall ECS Society Meeting in National...
Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan was recently awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award by the MIT Department Committee on Graduate Studies for his thesis, “Thermodynamics and kinetics of Mg intercalation into oxide lattices for multivalent cathode...