Author Archives: Meghan Harrington
Lasers, robots, action: MIT workshop explores Raman spectroscopy
Could a three-hour workshop on an advanced materials analysis technique turn someone into a detective—or perhaps an art restorer?At MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) in late…
Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments
What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard? In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini…
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…
MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2026
Seven MIT researchers are among the 130 new members and 28 international members recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2026. Twelve additional MIT alumni were also…
Accelerating science with AI and simulations
For more than a decade, MIT Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has used artificial intelligence to create new materials. As the technology has expanded, so have his ambitions.Now, the…
C. Cem Tasan promoted to full professor
C. Cem Tasan, the POSCO Associate Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), has been promoted to full professor, effective July 1.Tasan studies…
Yildiz works toward materials to power the green revolution
Bilge Yildiz cannot pick favorites among her many research projects involving the electrochemistry of inorganic materials, work that ranges from the electro-synthesis of carbon-free fuels to energy-efficient computer…
How generative AI can help scientists synthesize complex materials
Generative artificial intelligence models have been used to create enormous libraries of theoretical materials that could help solve all kinds of problems. Now, scientists just have to figure…