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PostJuly 1, 2025

$MIT engineers developed a membrane, pictured, that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.$

PostMay 21, 2025

Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel

MIT News

“Across the U.S., the typical bridge deck lasts about 30 years on average — we’re enabling 100-year lifetimes,” says Allium Engineering co-founder and CEO Steven Jepeal PhD ’21.

PodcastApril 24, 2025

Removing fossil fuels from industrial processes

MIT Energy Initiative

PostApril 17, 2025

Workshop explores new advanced materials for a growing world

MIT News

C. Cem Tasan, an MIT professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Materials Research Laboratory, discusses his work on recycling steel.

PodcastApril 3, 2025

E4: The great indoors

TILclimate Podcast

PostJanuary 10, 2025

Minimizing the carbon footprint of bridges and other structures

MIT News

Before coming to MIT, 2024 MAD Design Fellow Zane Schemmer, who grew up in the mountains of Utah, earned a BS and MS in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where his graduate work focused on seismic design.

PostDecember 13, 2024

What will it take for the American steel industry to go ‘fossil-free’?

MIT Climate

At HYBRIT's fossil-free steel plant in Luleå, Sweden, hydrogen made with renewable electricity turns reddish iron ore pellets, left, into grey pellets of sponge iron, which are ready to be melted down and made into steel.

Climate News at MIT

VAMO proposes an alternative to architectural permanence

Decarbonizing steel is as tough as steel

AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study

A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy

Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel

Removing fossil fuels from industrial processes

Workshop explores new advanced materials for a growing world

E4: The great indoors

Minimizing the carbon footprint of bridges and other structures

What will it take for the American steel industry to go ‘fossil-free’?

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