Manufacturing Technologies

Materials science is integral to manufacturing. Our faculty are studying everything from the way that metal particles adhere at the nanoscale for advanced additive manufacturing processes to the choices made in design and production of automobiles, electronic devices, and medical implants.

Researchers

Antoine Allanore

Professor of Metallurgy

13-5066
allanore@mit.edu

Professor Allanore is developing processes for sustainable materials extraction and manufacturing, revisiting and inventing new methods of producing metals, fertilizers, and more.

Yoel Fink

Professor of Materials Science; Joint Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Room 36-864
yoel@mit.edu

Professor Fink's group is designing and synthesizing multifunctional fibers that can incorporate electronic properties for everything from smart fabrics to artificial limbs.

Eugene A. Fitzgerald

Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; CEO and director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

Room 13-5153
eafitz@mit.edu

Professor Fitzgerald develops novel semiconductor technology leveraging lattice-mismatched materials and integration III-V electronic and optoelectronic devices on silicon. His work in innovation couples fundamental research with a strong focus on processes to drive new technologies into the marketplace.

Juejun (JJ) Hu

Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

13-4054
hujuejun@MIT.EDU

Professor Hu designs integrated photonic devices on a chip scale platform that offer more efficient and enhanced performance relative to their bulky counterparts. These are used in chemical molecule sensing, high speed optical communications, and optical devices integrated with biological tissues.

Jeehwan Kim

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

38-276
jeehwan@mit.edu

Professor Kim is engineering single-crystalline 2D materials for applications from flexible electronics to neuromorphic devices.

Lionel C. Kimerling

Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

13-4118
lckim@mit.edu

Professor Kimerling designs and builds silicon-based microphotonics that integrate electronic and optical devices towards solutions in signal interconnection, signal sensing, and image sensing.

Elsa A. Olivetti

Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering

8-403
elsao@mit.edu

Professor Olivetti examines materials, process, and system design towards improved environmental impacts from extraction to end-of-life using analytical, experimental, and data-driven methods.

Christopher A. Schuh

Danae and Vasilis Salapatas Professor of Metallurgy; MacVicar Fellow

Room 8-201
schuh@mit.edu

Professor Schuh studies structural materials, from fundamental scientific discovery through new material design. Recent projects include studying the micromechanics of particle adhesion with implications for additive manufacturing and creating new shape memory ceramics that could be used as micro-actuators for small autonomous robotics.

C. Cem Tasan

Thomas B. King Associate Professor of Metallurgy

8-202
tasan@mit.edu

Professor Tasan studies the microstructural mechanisms of metal deformation and failure using in-situ microscopy techniques, in order to design new alloys with superior property combinations.