Martin Z. Bazant E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering Professor of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 66-458 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

• In February 2020, I completed my term as Executive Officer of the Department of Chemical Engineering and took on the new role of Digital Learning Officer.

• Teaching:
  • The first graduate-level engineering mathematics MOOCs for MITx and EdX:
    • 10.50.1x Analysis of Transport Phenomena: 1. Mathematical Methods: Launched in September 2018, offered each fall semester.
    • 10.50.2x Analysis of Transport Phenomena: 2. Applications: Launch planned for May 2020, to be offered each spring semester.
      Delayed until Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 by COVID-19.
  • 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) (ChEnected interview)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (2018)

• Passages:
  • Ph.D. thesis defenses:
    • Amir Levy, Physics. Beyond Poisson-Boltzmann: Strong Correlations and Extreme Confinement in ionic fluids, 11/25/19.
    • 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
    
  • Learning physics of pattern formation from images,
  • Continuous Separation of Radionuclides from Contaminated Water by Shock Electrodialysis
  • Physics of electrostatic projection revealed by high-speed video imaging
  • Tuning the stability of electrochemical interfaces by electron transfer reactions
  • Heat of nervous conduction: A thermodynamic framework
  
  

• Press:
  • Nuclear Options
  • Why cement paste sticks
  • A new way to remove contaminants from nuclear wastewater
  • Seven MIT educators honored for digital learning innovation
  • Multi-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility

• Lectures:
  • Control of interfacial stability in electrochemical systems, Acrivos Award Lecture, AIChE Meeting, Orlando, FL 11/12/19. (Slideshow with movies (105MB))
  • Electrokinetic Control of Interfacial Instabilities, Georgia Tech Chemical Engineering Seminar, 10/10/18. (Video)
  • 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