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Electron beams rearrange atoms in a 3D crystal
A new method for precisely moving columns of individual atoms within a material could give rise to exotic quantum properties and shed light on quantum behavior, reports Tim…
Yet-Ming Chiang named a Tech Power Player for the fourth time
Yet-Ming Chiang has been named to The Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players list of leaders in technology and business. This is his fourth time appearing on the list.
Rethinking how lithium is extracted from hard rock
Lithium powers the modern world—from smartphones to electric vehicles—but most of the global supply comes from just a few countries, and current extraction methods can be energy- and…
Stacking 2D materials for more capable chips
At the Nature Conference on “Novel Materials and Devices for the Post-Moore Era,” 20 speakers and more than 300 researchers from around the world explored the limits of…
Angela Belcher on improving ovarian cancer diagnostics
Professors Angela Belcher and Sangeeta Bhatia chat with Edgar B. Herwick III of GBH’s The Curiosity Desk about their efforts aimed at improving diagnostics for ovarian cancer. “We now know…
Reflections on glass
“No material combines utility and beauty like glass,” says Manoj Choudhary, ScD ‘80, whose pioneering work at Owens Corning included finding ways of using electricity rather than fossil-fuel…
Meet a U.S. startup trying to break China’s rare-earth monopoly
New York Times reporter Rebecca Elliott spotlights Phoenix Tailings, a startup co-founded by DMSE alumni Tomás Villalón ’14 and Michelle Chao ’14 that is developing a sustainable process for…
MIT Technology Review: AI-driven labs aim to accelerate materials discovery
Lila Sciences, a startup co-founded by Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, is at the forefront of efforts to use AI-directed, automated laboratories to plan, run, and analyze experiments—aiming to dramatically accelerate…
MIT researchers crack secrets of proton movement in metal oxides with new model
DMSE Professors Bilge Yildiz, Ju Li, and other researchers at MIT have developed a new physical model that can help “improve predictions of proton mobility across a wide…
This ancient construction site in the ruins of Pompeii is revealing new secrets about the 2,000-year-old recipe for Roman concrete
A new paper by Professor Admir Masic, DMSE alum Ellie Vaserman, and colleagues details their new findings on the specific ingredients used by ancient Romans to develop durable…