MIT students develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice

...ne the coating with more advanced materials and test them in a professional icing chamber. Amber Velez, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, stressed the p…

Antoine Allanore is forging a new future for iron and steel

...tainability, energy, and advanced materials, and move ideas seamlessly from fundamental discovery to real-world application.More than 30 MIT researchers are affiliated with the lab, w…

Materials Day 2025 explores challenges and breakthroughs in extreme materials

...ific projects related to advanced materials. All were nominated for the honor by their respective advisors. The winner was Matthew Ye for a poster titled “Kinetic Engineering in Col…

Engineering next-generation fertilizers

...evelopment for fish, and advanced biochemical processes. “My colleagues created a stimulant environment with different research topics,” he notes. He is also grateful for the work…

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25

...imulation and control of advanced reactors, with expertise in uncertainty quantification, scientific machine learning, and artificial intelligence for nuclear applications. Previously…

Atom-by-Atom Characterization of 2D Materials With Electron Ptychography

...er colleagues are making advanced electron microscopy techniques more accessible by using ptychography to achieve 0.44-angstrom spatial resolution in a conventional scanning transmiss…

Uncovering new physics in metals manufacturing

...y specific compositions. advanced manufacturing now makes it possible to combine metals that normally wouldn’t mix through deformation. Understanding how atoms actually shuffle and…

Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts

...luminum — or made from advanced composites.“If we can use lighter, high-strength material, this would save a considerable amount of energy for the transportation industry,” says…

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...hings like batteries and advanced semiconductors.“Bayesian optimization is like Netflix recommending the next movie to watch based on your viewing history, except instead it recomme…