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2024
High-efficiency atmospheric water harvesting enabled by vibrational actuation
Svetlana Boriskina, Mechanical Engineering Department
Empowering Indigenous communities: A framework for climate resilience and migration planning in La Guajira, Colombia
Sarah Williams, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Eran Ben - Joseph, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Gabriella Carolini, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Janelle Knox-Hayes, Department of Urban Studies & Planning
National crop type maps of India using deep learning and street view imagery
Sherrie Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Data, Systems, and Society
Protecting drinking water from widespread organic contaminants using engineered soil bacteria
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
Kate Brown, Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Predictive activity coefficient and diffusion models for transport in multicomponent brines
John H. Lienhard V
Denitrifying capsules to clean water sources
Andrew Babbin, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Smart buckets: Measuring water access in rural India
Gokul Sampath, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Jonathan Bessette, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2023
Advancing technology development to improve microbiome processes for controlling harmful bacteria blooms in aquaculture algae feed production
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Otto X. Cordero, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Robert Vincent, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Sea Grant
Persistent monitoring of nitrogen waste products in the environment
Rajeev Ram, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Nanoscale materials for removal of “forever chemicals”
Carlos Portela, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering
Chemo-electrophilic interfaces for bacterial disinfection in wastewater
Kripa Varanasi, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Angela Belcher, Department of Biological Engineering
PFAS test kits based on 2D conductive metal-organic frameworks
Aristide Gumyusenge, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2022
Sustainable hydrogel microparticles for the removal of micropollutants from water
Patrick Doyle, Department of Chemical Engineering
In silico discovery of metal-organic frameworks for selective ion separation
Heather J. Kulik, Department of Chemical Engineering
Converging trends in climate change, mining, and agriculture: Analysis of hydrosocial relations over desalination and glaciers in Chile
John E. Fernández, Department of Architecture
Scott D. Odell, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Liquid-infused membranes to separate emulsified oils from water
Gregory C. Rutledge, Department of Chemical Engineering
Enzymatic biomaterials for PFAS degradation
Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering
Solar photomolecular desalination
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2021
Engineered microbial cocultures to detect and degrade organophosphates
Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering
A sliding vane energy recovery device for photovoltaic-powered brackish water reverse osmosis desalination
Amos Winter, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Off-grid portable ion concentration polarization desalination unit
Jongyoon Han, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Biological Engineering
2019
Microparticle systems for the removal of organic micropollutants
Patrick Doyle, Department of Chemical Engineering
Development of communication materials for the dissemination and commercialization of an open-sourced xylem water filter
Krithika Ramchander, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2018
2017
High-efficiency chemical-free backwash strategy for reverse osmosis membrane antifouling
Xuanhe Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
John H. Lienhard V
Distributed water harvesting from air in water-stressed and remote areas using metal-organic frameworks
Mircea Dincă, Department of Chemistry
Evelyn Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Developing intelligent selective electrodialysis for 21st century agriculture
John H. Lienhard V
Kishor Nayar, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2016
Development of low-cost water filter using sapwood xylem
Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Active materials for heavy metal extraction from water
Timothy Swager, Department of Chemistry
Electrochemically-mediated adsorptive processes for water-remediation
T. Alan Hatton, Department of Chemical Engineering
Floating, heat localizing solar receivers for distributed desalination
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
