Taking an innovative approach to battery design (MIT)
**Donald Sadoway**
_Photo: M. Scott Brauer_
You have to give Donald Sadoway points for style: Not many professors come to
the last class of a semester dressed in black tie, decorate the table with
linen and a vase of fresh roses, and toast their students with champagne. But
then, Sadoway has a tendency to do things differently.
Sadoway, the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry at MIT, has
earned a crescendo of recognition this year for his pioneering work on an
entirely new type of battery, one based on floating layers of high-temperature
molten metal and salt. The battery could provide electricity storage on a
scale useful to major electric utilities — allowing them to store energy
whenever it’s available and cheap, and then pump it back into the grid when
it’s most needed. Such storage capability could be the key to making
intermittent sources of power — such as sun, wind and tides — a reliable part
of the world’s energy supply.
The innovative approach earned Sadoway a coveted spot at this year’s TED
talks; a video of his remarks garnered more than 440,000 views in its first
three weeks online. And last week, Time …
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