News: Elsa A. Olivetti

Making buildings from industrial waste

January 16, 2020

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Game-changing materials

April 9, 2019

Hear Professors Fikile Brushett, Elsa Olivetti, and Yogi Surendranath discuss building the next generation of materials for future energy systems.  more

Elsa Olivetti Uses AI to Identify New Materials Fabrication

June 13, 2018

MIT researchers and their collaborators have demonstrated a novel system using artificial-intelligence techniques to help identify methods of fabricating materials, especially those that look promising in computer simulations. In one test, the system scanned half a million journal articles,…  more

How AI is helping us discover materials faster than ever

May 30, 2018

One way of using AI is to create a “cookbook,” or a collection of recipes for materials. In two…  more

Professors Beach and Olivetti promoted

May 21, 2018

Professor Geoffrey Beach is promoted to Full Professor effective July 1, 2018. Professor Beach earned a B.S…  more

DMSE will join NEET in 2018

April 21, 2018

The beginning of academic year 2017 marked the start of a new program called the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) which provides interdepartmental courses for students interested in combining disciplines that may not have formalized crossovers available in the curriculum. 
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Can computers help us synthesize new materials?

December 28, 2017

Last month, three MIT materials scientists and their colleagues published a paper describing a new artificial-intelligence system that can…  more

Artificial intelligence aids materials fabrication

November 7, 2017

In recent years, research efforts such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the …  more

Elsa Olivetti named to the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professorship

October 17, 2017

Elsa Olivetti has been named to the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professorship. Professor Olivetti joined DMSE in 2014 as a tenure-track faculty member at the assistant professor level. Since then, her research efforts, teaching, and scholarship activities have integrated very well with…  more

Will metal supplies limit battery expansion?

October 12, 2017

The dramatic rise in production of electric vehicles, coupled with expected growth in the use of grid-connected battery systems for storing electricity from renewable sources, raises a crucial question: Are there enough raw materials to enable significantly increased production of lithium-ion…  more

Designing the Circular Economy

August 30, 2017

In the circular economy, waste is minimized through reuse, reducing resource consumption by regeneratively cycling economic, natural, and social capital. By reducing this connection between production and consumption, a more sustainable balance can be reached in light of increasing populations…  more

Olivetti Group Publishes Paper in MURJ

June 28, 2017

DMSE's Olivetti Group makes an appearance in MURJ, the MIT Undergraduate Research Journal, for a paper titled Assessing the Criticality of Germanium as a Byproduct. Pg. 40-42 …  more

MIT Awards Ceremony 2017

May 4, 2017

  Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Awards: Rachel Osmundsen ‘ 17  Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising - Elsa Olivetti Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching…  more

Advancing manufacturing innovation on campus and online

October 14, 2016

"MIT researchers and educators have been living up to the university motto of "mens et manus," mind and hand, with a rapidly expanding effort on advanced manufacturing innovation. Several of MIT’s latest efforts in manufacturing research, education, workforce training, and policy are highlighted…  more

MIT Climate CoLab, in collaboration with Nike, launches new materials competition

October 31, 2015

"This month, the MIT Climate CoLab, in collaboration with Nike, Inc., launched…  more

Fast, affordable and insightful ways to look at product lifecycle impacts

September 29, 2014

Companies, industries, and governments are looking at the impacts climate change will have on their markets and economies. At the heart of their efforts is the question of how to effectively reduce the total life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, or “carbon footprint” of products, supply chains…  more