Inventing future fabrics
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America workshop challenges pioneering MIT and FIT students to conceive new ideas.
Materials Research Laboratory
School of Engineering second quarter 2018 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.
Where economics and materials science meet
Postdoc Michele Bustamante wins Congressional Fellowship for her research analyzing supply risks and cost dynamics for key metals in high technology.
Summer projects in motion
Lab assignments for MIT Materials Research Laboratory undergraduate researchers and teachers cut across disciplines.
Broadening the range of material rewards
Headed by Carl Thompson, the newly formed Materials Research Laboratory opens up opportunities for industrial partnerships.
GAIN program to connect community college students to career opportunities
Jaramillo lab launches a summer program to broaden the horizons of local students interested in materials science and engineering.
Turning up the heat on thermoelectrics
New materials, heated under high magnetic fields, could produce record levels of energy, model shows.
Introducing the 2018 Summer Scholars
Undergraduates from around the U.S. seek life-enriching experiences through MIT Materials Research Laboratory science and engineering internships.
Seven from MIT named National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows
Fellowships last for up to three years, covering full tuition and mandatory fees.
Improving mid-infrared imaging and sensing
Artificial optical materials could allow cheaper, flatter, more efficient detectors for night vision and other uses.
Physicists discover new quantum electronic material
With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior.
Getting to the heart of carbon nanotube clusters
MIT researchers create predictable patterns from unpredictable carbon nanotubes.
Integrating the promise of photonics
AIM Photonics Academy winter session draws over 60 participants from industry and academia.
MIT collaboration enriches community college experience
More than half of Roxbury, Bunker Hill, students with summer lab experience at MIT go on to earn a four-year degree.
Jennifer Rupp wins international electrochemistry prize
Assistant professor is honored for her work on energy storage systems and safer, solid-state lithium electrolyte batteries.