Embracing ancient materials and 21st-century challenges
An early interest in archaeology led senior Sophia Mittman to explore many facets of materials science, from restoring artwork to making mining more sustainable.
An early interest in archaeology led senior Sophia Mittman to explore many facets of materials science, from restoring artwork to making mining more sustainable.
The Institute also ranks second in two subject areas.
An efficient machine-learning method uses chemical knowledge to create a learnable grammar with production rules to build synthesizable monomers and polymers.
Graduate engineering, economics, and various science programs are No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.
An MIT team incorporates AI to facilitate the detection of an intriguing materials phenomenon that can lead to electronics without energy dissipation.
A new way to make carbon fiber could turn refinery byproducts into high-value, ultralight structural materials for cars, aircraft, and spacecraft.
The discovery could help researchers engineer exotic electrical states such as unconventional superconductivity.
Inspired by the human ear, a new acoustic fabric converts audible sounds into electrical signals.
Chemical engineers use neural networks to discover the properties of metal-organic frameworks, for catalysis and other applications.
A method for stabilizing the interfaces in solid-state lithium-ion batteries opens new possibilities.
Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could allow a tenfold signal enhancement.
Discovery shows for the first time that multiferroic properties can exist in a two-dimensional material; could lead to more efficient magnetic memory devices.
Senior Heidi Li strives to help local communities understand how they can influence policymaking to achieve a more sustainable future.
The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics.
With many devices depending on the motion of ions, light could be used as a switch to turn ion motion on and off.