Team VariFlux (represented by Vikas Dhamu and Meyyappan Kannan) is one of 12 global teams advancing to the grand finals of the 2026 MIT Climate and Energy Prize. Professor Praveen Linga, Provost Chair (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), led the team comprising Research Fellow Vikas Dhamu and first-year PhD student Meyyappan Kannan, both from

Today, over 34 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted each year globally. While efforts to reduce the environmental burden of such emissions has focused on the development and adoption of alternative energy technologies, a growing body of work is turning to the development of technologies to capture and convert CO2 into carbon-based fuels