AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials

...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…

MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics

...ration, the U.S. Defense advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Research Office, and the C…

How MIT’s Steel Research Group led to a groundbreaking national materials initiative

...manufacture, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast, and at a fraction of the cost, compared to traditional methods, according to the MGI website.At MIT, the SRG continues to fo…

Navigating Complexity: Harnessing Ionic Defects for Tailored Oxide Properties

...joint fellowship at the advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Lu is the recipient of the Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society and was a…

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

...extreme conditions using advanced spectroscopy Simulating heat-driven self-assembly of gold nanoparticles with toggled illumination Exploring silicon carbide for…

Harvey Kent Bowen, ceramics scholar and MIT Leaders for Global Operations co-founder, dies at 83

...rt into science.”Bowen advanced the field by applying scientific rigor to how ceramic materials were processed. He applied concepts from the developing field of colloid science —…

From biodegradable fibers to green microchips

...on in sustainability and advanced materials....as organizations such as advanced Functional Fabrics of America, Allegheny Technologies, Ericsson, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation. MRL researchers are addressing critical…

New approach could be key to faster, more energy-efficient computing and communications

...eatured on the cover of advanced Engineering Materials earlier this year. Last fall another paper on the work was presented by the lead author, Drew Weninger, at the 57th Internatio…

WISDOM project to give machines humanlike vision

...esearch group focused on advanced 3D-sensing technologies for applications ranging from automotive to health care....esearch group developing advanced 3D-sensing technologies for use in industries from automotive to health care. DMSE’s Juejun Hu joins NTU Singapore’s Tan Chuan-Seng as co-lead pr…

Professor Emeritus Keith Johnson, pioneering theorist in materials science and independent filmmaker, dies at 89

...zinc oxide. His methods advanced the understanding of materials used in devices like gas sensors and water-splitting systems for hydrogen fuel. It also gave him deeper insight into c…