Martin Z. Bazant E. G. Roos (1944) Professor & Executive Officer of Chemical Engineering Professor of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 25 Ames Street Room 66-352 (Department Headquarters) Cambridge, MA 02139 Email: bazant at mit.edu Administrative Assistant: Barbara Balkwill Email: balkwill at mit.edu

Introduction		Research		Group		Teaching		Publications		Talks

What's New

• Teaching:
  • The first graduate-level engineering mathematics MOOCs for MITx and EdX:
    • 10.50.1x Analysis of Transport Phenomena: 1. Mathematical Methods: First ran in 2018; Enroll now for Fall 2019
    • 10.50.2x Analysis of Transport Phenomena: 2. Applications, planned for 2020.
  • MIT subjects created: 10.626 Electrochemical Energy Systems, 18.366 Random Walks and Diffusion
  • MIT Coach for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, "The Dream Team"

• Awards:
  • Finalist for the edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning (2019)
  • MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs (2019)
  • Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (2018)

• Passages:
  • Ph.D. thesis defenses:
    • Tingtao (Edmond) Zhou, Physics Phase Transition Induced Deformation in Porous Media, 8/21/19.
    • Zongyu (Joey) Gu Chemical Engineering Physics-Based Models of Hysteresis in Multiphase Flow in Porous Media, 7/19/19.
    • Fan He, Chemical Engineering Theoretical and Experimental Study of Electrochemically Mediated Adsorption Processes, 5/23/19. (Co-advisor: A. Hatton)
    • Kameron Conforti, Chemical Engineering Continuous Ion-selective Separation by Shock Electrodialysis, 1/4/19.
    • Edwin Sze Lun Khoo, Chemical Engineering Theoretical Aspects of Electrodeposition in Charged Porous Media, 1/4/19.
  • Peng Bai, Assistant Professor at Washington University, grew our academic family.

• Publications:

  

  • Google Scholar, Recent publications
    
  • Thermodynamic stability of driven open systems and control of phase separation by electroautocatalysis (arxiv, journal cover)
  • Transition of lithium growth mechanisms in liquid electrolytes
  • Exact solutions and physical analogies of unidirectional flows (PDF)
  • Scalable and continuous water deionization by shock electrodialysis (More information)
  
  

• Press:
  • Seven MIT educators honored for digital learning innovation
  • Power to the Plasma, Bose fellows
  • Multi-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
  • In batteries, a metal reveals its dual personality
  • Shocking new way to get the salt out, New desalination technique also cleans and disinfects water
  • Inaugural E. G. Roos (1944) Professor Chair of Chemical Engineering (2015)

• Lectures:
  • Electrokinetic Control of Interfacial Instabilities, Georgia Tech Chemical Engineering Seminar, 10/10/18.
  • Physics of Next Generation Batteries, Stanford Energy Seminar, 4/18/16. (Video, PDF)
  • Shock Electrodialysis, Stanford Environmental Engineering and Science Seminar, 2/5/16. (slideshow)

• Software:
  • MPET: Multiphase Porous Electrode Theory
  • EDIP: Environment Dependent Interatomic Potential