Study of disordered rock salts leads to battery breakthrough

...ional Laboratory and the advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. 

Iwnetim Abate wins ISSI Young Scientist Award for energy materials

...d for pioneering work on advanced materials in renewable energy technologies....rch focuses on designing advanced materials that enhance electrochemical reactions, which are vital for renewable energy technologies....rch focuses on designing advanced materials that enhance electrochemical and chemical reactions, which are vital for renewable energy technologies. In addition to his work on batterie…

Christine Ortiz named director of MIT Technology and Policy Program

...nology and biomaterials, advanced and additive manufacturing, and sustainable and socially directed materials design....nology and biomaterials, advanced and additive manufacturing, and sustainable and socially directed materials design. She has over 30 years of experience in science, engineering, rese…

More durable metals for fusion power reactors

...velopment and testing of advanced materials that may help address those challenges, as well as many other challenges of the energy transition. MITEI has multiple corporate members tha…

New substrate material for flexible electronics could help combat e-waste

...acture the circuits into advanced architectures, such as multilayered electronics. The traditional way of making Kapton involves heating the material to anywhere from 200 to 300 degre…

Professor Emeritus John Vander Sande, microscopist, entrepreneur, and admired mentor, dies at 80

...r in 1971. Vision for advanced microscopy At MIT, Vander Sande became known as a leading practitioner of weak-beam microscopy, a technique refined by Hirsch to improve images of…

MIT researchers identify routes to stronger titanium alloys

...described in the journal advanced Materials, in a paper by Shaolou Wei ScD ’22, Professor C. Cem Tasan, postdoc Kyung-Shik Kim, and John Foltz from ATI Inc. The improvements, the te…

Quick action keeps DMSE commencement celebration on dry ground

...r graduating seniors and advanced-degree graduates May 30. The event included remarks from Interim Department Head Caroline Ross and an awards ceremony. Here, the seniors on the execu… ...chool of Engineering’s advanced degree students was on May 29; the undergraduate ceremony was on May 31. Addressing the rerouted crowd of graduating seniors, advanced-degree gradua…

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

...lin’s interests lay in advanced manufacturing of functional soft matter, with an emphasis on soft wearable technologies and their applications in human-computer interfaces. Previous…

Researchers develop a detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases

...d today in the journal advanced Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Aristide Gumyusenge, Mircea Dinca, Heather Kulik, and Jesus del Alamo, graduate student Heejung Roh, and post…