Michael Aziz

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Michael J. Aziz
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for Organic battery
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsApplied Physics, Materials Science, Energy science and technology
Institutions Harvard University
Thesis Kinetics of crystallization of B2O3 under pressure and theory of motion of the crystal-melt interface at wide departures from equilibrium  (1983)
Doctoral advisor David Turnbull
Website aziz.seas.harvard.edu

Michael John Aziz is an American research scientist and engineer and the Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, for which he served from 2009 to 2018 as the faculty coordinator for the Graduate Consortium for Energy and Environment. He is also Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Quino Energy, Inc. [1]

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Early life

Aziz had received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1978 and then got his Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University in 1983 while working under the direction of David Turnbull. [2] As a postdoc, he had spent two years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he was a Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellow. Since 1986 he has been a faculty member on what is now the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and he is currently the Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies. [3]

Research

Starting in 2012, Aziz has worked with Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Roy Gordon and the United States Department of Energy to develop aqueous-soluble organic flow batteries for grid-scale electrical energy storage. [4] [5] In 2016 he used vitamin B2 to improve the work of an organic battery that was developed two years prior. [6] The battery was later named Organic Mega Flow Battery, the research of which was published in journal Joule the same year. [7] Some of his research has resulted in patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Michael J. Aziz". Harvard University. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ Aziz, Michael John (1984). Kinetics of crystallization of B2O3 under pressure and theory of motion of the crystal-melt interface at wide departures from equilibrium (Ph.D. thesis). Harvard University. OCLC   12798061 – via ProQuest.
  3. ↑ "Michael J. Aziz (seminar announcement)" (PDF). University of Kansas Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. May 2, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Karoff, Paul (January 8, 2014). "Battery offers renewable energy breakthrough". Harvard Gazette . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ Kwong, Matt (January 10, 2014). "Organic battery hailed as cheap renewable energy solution". CBC News. CBC . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ Burrows, Leah (July 18, 2016). "A battery inspired by vitamins". Harvard University. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ Burrows, Leah (July 23, 2018). "Organic Mega Flow Battery transcends lifetime, voltage thresholds". Harvard University. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Patents by Inventor Michael J. Aziz". Justia .
  9. ↑ APS Fellowship , retrieved June 11, 2022
  10. ↑ Elected Fellows of AAAS , retrieved June 11, 2022
  11. ↑ "Michael J. Aziz named 2010 MRS Fellow". Harvard University. March 22, 2010. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Michael J. Aziz receives Bruce Chalmers Award". February 5, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Gordon and Aziz accept Eni Award". The Harvard Gazette . October 17, 2019.
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