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Local researchers are aiming to create the perfect battery

Professor Emeritus Donald Sadoway discusses his work developing a safer, cheaper battery that could be used to store renewable energy. Sadoway notes that materials for the battery are…

Engineers develop a new kind of shape-memory material

Shape-memory metals, which can revert from one shape to a different one simply by being warmed or otherwise triggered, have been useful in a variety of applications, as…

MIT’s National Science Foundation grant will advance “socioresilient materials design”

Too often society understands the unintended negative consequences long after the materials that make up our homes and cities and systems have been in production and use for…