John F. Elliott

Professor Donald Sadoway reflects on teaching, batteries, and world peace as he retires after 45 years at MIT.

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway has won the 2022 European Inventor Award, in the category for Non-European Patent Office Countries, for his work on liquid metal batteries that could enable the long-term storage of renewable energy.

A new system could enable simple, low-cost detectors for monitoring water for lead contamination, and potentially other heavy metals as well.

MIT spinout Boston Metal is commercializing a cleaner method for making steel and other metals that could make the emissions-intensive industry more sustainable.

MIT engineers designed a battery made from inexpensive, abundant materials, that could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources. Less expensive than lithium-ion battery technology, the new architecture uses aluminum and sulfur as its two electrode materials with a molten salt electrolyte in between.

Humankind needs more and more resources, from computing power to concrete, to meet the growing demands associated with data centers, infrastructure, and other mainstays of society. Advanced materials key to that growth were the focus of an MIT workshop.

Janelle Knox-Hayes and Donald Sadoway of MIT are among the co-authors of a new paper calling for greater community involvement to help increased adoption of wind power in the U.S.