Congratulations to Ashley Luo for completing the thesis to her Master’s!

Farewell to our first graduate student graduate, Ashley Luo. Good luck in Australia!

Prof. Abate has received the Young Scientist Investigator Award from ISSI!

The International Society for Solid State Ionics (ISSI) has awarded Iwnetim Abate the Young Scientist Award for 2024!.

Congratulations to Corson Chao for becoming a 2024 MIT Energy Initiative Fellow!

Corson has become a MITei fellow for his work in the Abate Lab on developing high throughput systems for hydrogen production.

MIT announces Iwnetim Abate as a recipient of the 2024 Bose Grant!

Iwnetim Abate was recognized as one of four recipients of the 2024 Professor Amar G. Bose research grants to support bold research ideas across diverse areas of study.

The Abate Lab’s proposal on geological hydrogen has been chosen by ARPA-E

Yifan Gao, a post-doc in the lab, is leading a project to develop a laboratory reactor to test the many parameters and variables for geologic hydrogen production. Learn more about our project with ARPA-E here. And if you’d like to read more of just a summary from MIT, read here instead!

Welcome to our new batch of post-docs and graduate students!

Welcome to our new batch of post-docs (Justin Han, Bachu Sravan, Yaoshen Niu) and graduate students (Lokesh Sangabattula, Virgil Watkins, and Ashley Luo)!

Congratulations to Prof. Abate for being named one of the Talented 12 by Chemical & Engineering News!

Prof. Abate has been named one of E&EN’s Talented 12 for his work in energy storage for the green energy transition.

Hugh Smith discusses the potential of sodium-ion batteries for grid-scale energy storage on ACerS Bulletin.

Hugh Smith, a graduate student in the lab, published on the potential of sodium-ion batteries for grid-scale energy storage on the American Ceramic Society Bulletin. Here is the link to learn more.

Welcome to the first members of the Abate Lab.

Welcome both the first post-doc (Victor Venturi) and the first graduate students (Hugh Smith, Corson Chao, and Anirudh Adavi).

The Abate Lab Est. December 2022.

The Abate lab officially opened its doors on December 2022.