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## Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Jimmy Clay, Zenon Bartido, and Phil Acomb at MKS Instruments; Jackson Qiu and Kimberly Azazian at Alicat Scientific; Chris and Kevin Hack at King Gauge Engineering; Saul Garcia and Alex Castro at Apex Microtechnology Inc.; and Tom @ Eastern Scientific; all for their engineering support in developing the test setups provided on this website. 

Also to Mark Belanger at the Edgerton Student Shop for teaching us how to machine, and providing both facilities and incredible friendship; and Charlie, Shayne, and Libby at the MIT Materials Research Lab for providing characterization support. 

Also to Quang Kieu and Professor David J Perreualt for providing advice and various oscilloscope probes during the develop of the electrical system; and Tomas @ Agfa Chemical for providing membranes. 

To Professors Betar Gallant, Yet-Ming Chiang, Alexander H. Slocum, Dr. Simon Bare, and Dr. Dimosthenis Sokaras for being incredible advisors on this project; the members of the MIT Precision Engineering Research Group in MechE and the Chiang Lab in DMSE for their support and advice along the way. To Javier Rubio, Eric Lavrut, and Florence Binet at SLB for their support and guidance.  

And a huge shoutout to the wonderful people at the MIT Stata Center Loading Dock, MIT Shipping and Receiving, and MIT Facilities for keeping us running as an institute. 

## Funding Sources & Facilities 

Generous funding support was provided by the following organizations. Thank you for supporting scientific research working to build a more equitable and robust energy infrastructure.

* SLB Limited
* MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
* MIT Energy Initiative 

Characterization work was performed at the following facilities. Thank you for supporting our work, and the work of other scientists building a better world.

* MIT Materials Research Lab
* MIT Characterization.Nano

## Website Support

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