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Alloy Design Workshop 2021

5th Alloy Design workshop, Dec. 3rd, 2021, “Exploring design guidelines for superior titanium alloys”  

Alloy Design Workshop

The Alloy Design Workshop is an annual event held on the last day of the fall MRS Meeting, as an opportunity for the MIT community and the materials community as a whole to congregate in an intimate setting to present and discuss new, unpublished research.  

2018 MADMEC Results

Technology that uses light to clean water filtration systems in real time won the 2018 MADMEC competition on Oct. 9. The team that developed the system, Fiat Flux, received the…  

MIT's 2018 Convocation

Yoel Fink spoke at the 2018 Convocation to welcome incoming first-year students at MIT. When Prof. Fink first arrived as a grad student from Jerusalem, where schools are typically fenced and gated, he was surprised at how open the campus is. He believes the openness is an important part…  

Minds and Hands: The MIT Glass Lab

If you haven't seen it yet, there's still time to check out the MIT Glass Lab exhibition at the Sandwich Glass Museum. It runs August 15 through October 21, 2018! The exhibition includes Glass Lab students, instructors and alumni, as well as the MIT Glass Band, Virtual Glass and G3DP (…  

New Neural Implants developed by Prof. Cima

New technologies such as optogenetics have allowed us to identify similar microstructures in the brain. However, these techniques rely on liquid infusions into the brain, which prepare the regions to be studied to respond to light. These infusions are done with large needles, which do not have…  

Don Sadoway will Keynote The Battery Show 2018

The Battery Show, North America's largest advanced battery technology event, has announced that Don Sadoway will be one of the keynote speakers at the 2018 event, where he will discuss his groundbreaking work on the liquid metal battery. About Dr. Donald R. Sadoway:…  

2018 Metal Arts Lecture now on YouTube

In case you missed it, the 2018 Metal Arts Lecture is now up on YouTube! Helen Shirk was the lecture speaker; she has worked with both jewelry and object formats, exploring a broad range of materials and innovative processes to express her ideas. Her style has slowly shifted from small…  

Angela Belcher presenting at 17th Annual Summer Symposium

Angela Belcher is presenting on June 15, 2018 at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, which is presenting its 17th annual Summer Symposium: Breakthrough Cancer Nanotechnologies. Nanomedicine is a converging field of study in biology and engineering where…  

xTalk with Peter Barendse & Kyle Keane

This xTalk will present a high-level overview from two MIT lecturers in DMSE about their newly-developed framework that combines MITx and Wolfram technologies to let faculty and instructors add creative and contextual computational educational components into their online and residential…  

Hydrogel that extracts uranium from water wins MADMEC

An inexpensive hydrogel that can extract uranium from water to provide more fuel for nuclear power plants took home the grand prize from this year’s MADMEC competition on Oct. 10. A team of MIT materials science and engineering students, named A Salt Solution, won $10,000 for a prototype…  

Spring 2017 Wulff Lecture: Dr. Dan Button

Start-Ups in Materials: If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space... Building materials-based companies can change the world and generate tremendous financial ­reward—but it’s hard.  Consider this a chance to learn…  

Roadmapping integrated photonics

AIM Photonics Institute, the MIT Microphotonics Center and iNEMI co-host the Spring meeting on the Integrated Photonics System Roadmap [IPSR], Tuesday through Thursday, March 28-30, 2017, at MIT. Session topics include Silicon Photonics and Moore’s Law; Human-Machine Interfaces; Automated…  

Materials Day Recap

Our friends at the Materials Processing Center recently held their annual Materials Day event. As part of the day of events, several DMSE faculty participated in a series of talks about battery challenges. The day also included a Poster Session contest. The winners of the contest were Ping-Chun…  

Jimmy Jia to speak at MIT regarding his new book

DMSE alumnus Jimmy Jia will be giving a talk at MIT on October 19 at 5pm in room 3-133 as part of the MIT Energy Club speaker series. Jimmy wrote a book titled "Driven by Demand: How Energy Gets its Power" which is selling now in both paperback and hardback forms. …