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Awards and Honors 2021

June 2, 2021

Please congratulate the DMSE Faculty, Students, and Staff who have been honored with MIT, School of Engineering, and DMSE Awards!!

Prof. Julia Ortony awarded Goldblith chair

May 20, 2021

Prof. Julia Ortony awarded Goldblith CD chair

2021 Senior Thesis Presentations

May 19, 2021

How to prevent short-circuiting in next-gen lithium batteries

March 16, 2021

New findings may help unleash the potential of high-powered, solid-electrolyte lithium batteries.

Elsa Olivetti named one of the 2021 Margaret MacVicar Fellows

March 11, 2021

Prof. Elsa Olivetti has been named one of the 2021 MacVicar Fellows.

New “metalens” shifts focus without tilting or moving

February 22, 2021

The design may enable miniature zoom lenses for drones, cellphones, or night-vision goggles.

3 Questions: Designing systems for sustainable materials ecologies

February 22, 2021

Prof. Elsa Olivetti shares how her early excitement around sustainability issues brought her to study "things" and the systems that move, modify, and proliferate materials around the world.

Significant increase to lifetime of semitransparent organic solar cells

January 29, 2021

Silver Nanowire Back Electrode Stabilized with Graphene Oxide Encapsulation for Inverted Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with Longer Lifetime

Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

January 28, 2021

New design could speed reaction rates in electrochemical systems for pulling carbon out of power plant emissions.

Researchers construct molecular nanofibers that are stronger than steel

January 25, 2021

Researchers have designed small molecules that spontaneously form nanoribbons when water is added. These molecules include a Kevlar-inspired “aramid” domain in their design, which fixes each molecule in place and leads to nanoribbons that are stronger than steel.

Electrospinning Techniques

January 22, 2021

Electrospinning-Based Strategies for Battery Materials (Adv. Energy Mater. 2/2021)

Controlling drug activity with light

January 5, 2021

Machine learning to design metal alloys

December 10, 2020

System uses machine learning to analyze boundaries between crystal grains, allowing for selection of desired properties in a new metal.

MIT students awarded 2022 Schwarzman Scholarships

December 8, 2020

Ava Waitz one of the 4 MIT students awarded Schwarzman Scholarships

New diagnostic tool can detect scarred or fatty liver tissue

December 3, 2020

Danielle Grey-Stewart named 2021 Rhodes Scholar

November 24, 2020

3.024: Teaching with comics

November 24, 2020

Kitchen Matters

November 23, 2020

A group of DMSE grad students are creating short cooking videos that demonstrate a principle of materials science (i.e. chocolate tempering, boiling water).