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The 2025 Tech Power Players in the energy sector

The Boston Globe has named Professor Yet-Ming Chiang a 2025 Tech Power Player in the energy sector—his third time on the list. A pioneer in advanced materials for…

How science communication can step up amid federal cuts

Felice Frankel, a science photographer and visual science communication specialist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, speaks with Science Friday host Flora Lichtman about how science communicators can…

A guide to navigating AI chemistry hype

Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, associate professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, weighs in on the hype surrounding AI tools in chemistry. In an interview with Chemical &…

Prolific MIT materials professor develops a clean power source for airplanes made from … table salt?

Professor Yet-Ming Chiang of MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his colleagues have developed a sodium-air fuel cell that “packs three to four times more energy…

Breakerspace image contest showcases creativity, perseverance

The Breakerspace transformed into an art gallery on March 12, with six easels arranged in an arc to showcase arresting images—black-and-white scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of crumpled…

MIT affiliates awarded 2024 National Medals of Science, Technology

Four MIT faculty members are among 23 world-class researchers who have been awarded the nation’s highest honors for scientists and innovators, the White House announced today.Angela Belcher and…

Romancing the stone: DMSE researchers crack magnetic garnet mystery

Scientists love a good mystery—it keeps them querying, testing, changing variables, and trying again. Sometimes a mystery lingers for decades, outlasting technological limitations—and setting the stage for a…

Study of disordered rock salts leads to battery breakthrough

For the past decade, disordered rock salt has been studied as a potential breakthrough cathode material for use in lithium-ion batteries and a key to creating low-cost, high-energy…

Iwnetim Abate wins ISSI Young Scientist Award for energy materials

 Iwnetim Abate, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), has been honored with the seventh annual ISSI Young Scientist Award. Organized by the International…

Christine Ortiz named director of MIT Technology and Policy Program

Christine Ortiz, the Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, has been named the next director of the MIT Technology and Policy…