September 2010
Inside materials’ DNA
MIT’s Materials Genome Project enlists databases and density functional theory to discover safe, clean materials for a new energy era.
Category Archives: Energy
December 2009
Girding the grid
Computational tools help to improve the interconnected grids that power homes and businesses and to avoid major failures like the 2003 Northeast blackout.
September 2009
Cleaning up coal
Computation tweaks coal conversion to boost efficiency.
August 2007
Hot stuff
A computer simulation shows how new, efficient nuclear power plants can keep their cool.