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The $1.3 billion research enterprise at Georgia Tech is the embodiment of a commitment…

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Akanksha Menon, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,…

New Ultrafast Water Disinfection Method Is More Environmentally Friendly
A school of small orange planktivorous fish swim around coral in the ocean.

Coral reef conservation is a steppingstone to protect marine biodiversity and life in the ocean…

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A new type of solar technology has seemed promising in recent years. Halide perovskite solar…

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Three Georgia Tech projects will receive more than $4.7 million in direct…

Qcells, a solar power company, plans to build a $2.3 billion manufacturing complex just north of Atlanta in Cartersville to not only make state-of-the-art components for solar panels, but also to build complete panels used in a variety of settings, from houses to large-scale commercial and industrial solar arrays.

The state of Georgia is at the epicenter of what may be the largest investment in clean energy…

Postdoctoral fellow Poorandokht Kashkouli, seated at laptop, discusses test data from their direct air capture rig. Ryan Lively, left, and Chris Jones, pointing at laptop, stand next to the rig, which is a series of tubes and valves in a metal frame. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed: they would reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and…

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Whether they know it or not, most city dwellers have probably been inside a so-called “green”…

Cheaper Flow Batteries for Clean Energy

Clean energy is the leading solution for climate change. But solar and wind power are…

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Dr. Tim Lieuwen highlighted the need for efficient energy storage solutions and the use of existing natural gas infrastructure to…

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Scientific American
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
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November 29, 2023

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Climate Change Science Institute and the 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)
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With the goal of building a diverse workforce in science and technology, Georgia Tech is working to establish new research…

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…

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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…