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Spotlight on Course 3 Academic Subjects Fall 2021

August 20, 2021

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Prof. Yang Shao-Horn receives Humboldt Research Award

August 19, 2021

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors distinguished international scientists and scholars

Dreyfus Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Award

August 19, 2021

Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli receives the 2021 Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Award,

Sadoway named TMS Fellow

August 13, 2021

Prof. Donald R. Sadoway honored with election to TMS Fellow

AI in materials development

August 13, 2021

AI-based tools to accelerate functional electronic materials discovery

Machine learning discovers new sequences to boost drug delivery

August 11, 2021

Researchers employ machine learning to find powerful peptides that could improve a gene therapy drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Bose Award 2021

August 11, 2021

The School of Engineering presents the Bose Award annually to recognize excellence in teaching. Prof. Elsa Olivetti is a remarkable educator who well deserves this honor.

Controlling ferrimagnets by voltage

July 29, 2021

Discovering energy saving technologies in the IT sector

Prof. Elsa Olivetti awarded tenure

July 12, 2021

Prof. Gomez-Bombarelli awarded Jeffrey Cheah chair

July 1, 2021

School of Engineering awards new chair

New type of e-skin — an adhesive embedded with sensor

July 1, 2021

The design could lead to conformable wearable monitors to track skin cancer and other conditions.

Welcome Aristide Gumyusenge and Iwnetim Abate to the DMSE faculty!

June 11, 2021

Aristide Gumyusenge and Iwnetim Abate will be joining the DMSE faculty.

Grace Moore ’21 receives Michel David-Weill Scholarship

June 3, 2021

The first MIT student to be named a Michel David-Weill Scholar, Moore is planning a career at the intersection of sciences and environmental policy.

Engineers create a programmable fiber

June 3, 2021

In a first, the digital fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity.

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)