Martin Z. Bazant Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering Digital Learning Officer Professor of Applied Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 66-458 Cambridge, MA 02139 Email: bazant at mit.edu Administrative Assistant: Anna Christman Email: annac42 at mit.edu

Introduction		Research		Group		Teaching		Publications		Talks

What's New

• Chevron Chair, after 10 years as the E. G. Roos (1944) Chair
• National Academy of Engineering, Class of 2025
• Startup:
  • Lithios, Inc., Chief Scientist and Co-founder
  • Lithios Secures $12 Million to Expand Lithium Supply to Meet Global EV and Energy Demand
  • Lithios Launches Pilot and Manufacturing Facility to Scale Lithium Extraction in the Americas

• Research:
  • Pixel-by-pixel analysis yields insights into lithium-ion batteries
  • MIT features new analysis technique to improve Li-ion battery design - Q&A Overview
  • Google Scholar, Highly Cited Researcher

• Passages:
  • On November 15, 2024, Emily Krucker-Velasquez defended her Ph.D. thesis, On the Dynamics and Interparticle Forces of Electrostatically Stabilized Colloidal Suspensions.
  • On July 23, 2024, Debbie Zhuang defended her Ph.D. thesis, Degradation Mechanisms and Applications in Ion Intercalation Materials.
  • On May 2, 2024, Harry Qiaohao Liang defended his Ph.D. thesis, Physics-based and data-driven modeling of multi-active material electrode batteries.
  • New professors Hongbo Zhao (U. C. San Diego) and Dimitrios Fraggedakis (Princeton) joined our academic family.

• Publications:
  • Unified quantum theory of electrochemical kinetics by coupled ion-electron transfer (discussion of the paper)
  • Learning heterogeneous reaction kinetics from X-ray movies pixel-by-pixel

• Teaching:
  • 10.50x Analysis of Transport Phenomena (Award-winning series of 9 MOOCs)
  • Math Boot Camp for Engineers (MIT News)

• Organizations:
  • President, International Electrokinetics Society
  • Director, Center for Battery Sustainability
  • Director, D3BATT: Data-Driven Design of Rechargeable Batteries

• Software:
  • MPET: Multiphase Porous Electrode Theory
  • COVID-19 Indoor Safety Guideline
  • EDIP: Environment Dependent Interatomic Potential

(hits since 2002 @ MIT Math)