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Recruiters from multiple industries—from aerospace and electronics to pharmaceuticals and consulting—set up booths at the DMSE Career Fair on October 10, offering students in MIT’s Department of Materials…
The Iron Saga: From Stars to Sustainable Commodity
Speaker Antoine Allanore Professor of Metallurgy, Heather N. Lechtman Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology About This Talk Modern…
MIT course helps researchers crack secrets of ancient pottery
Jennifer Meanwell carefully placed a pottery sherd—or broken fragment of ceramic—under the circular, diamond-coated blade of a benchtop saw. “Cutting the sample is the first big step,” said Meanwell,…
Romancing the stone: DMSE researchers crack magnetic garnet mystery
Scientists love a good mystery—it keeps them querying, testing, changing variables, and trying again. Sometimes a mystery lingers for decades, outlasting technological limitations—and setting the stage for a…
Study of disordered rock salts leads to battery breakthrough
...am can reduce the carbon content in the electrode without sacrificing performance, there will be higher active material content in a battery, leading to an increased practical energy…
More durable metals for fusion power reactors
For many decades, nuclear fusion power has been viewed as the ultimate energy source. A fusion power plant could generate carbon-free energy at a scale needed to address…
Teaching material: MIT camp gives educators materials science skills
For the third year, a group of teachers spent a week at MIT designing and testing new materials, learning cutting-edge tools, and practicing easy-to-replicate experiments.The Materials Genome Camp,…
Proton-conducting materials could enable new green energy technologies
As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons — the nucleus of the hydrogen atom…
Professor Emeritus John Vander Sande, microscopist, entrepreneur, and admired mentor, dies at 80
MIT Professor Emeritus John B. Vander Sande, a pioneer in electron microscopy and beloved educator and advisor known for his warmth and empathetic instruction, died June 28 in…
How to increase the rate of plastics recycling
...posit programs, recycled-content requirements, and other policies, and used these models to extrapolate to the nation as a whole. Overall, they found that the supply needs of packagi…