Mining the right transition metals in a vast chemical space
Computational chemists design better ways of discovering and designing materials for energy applications.
Computational chemists design better ways of discovering and designing materials for energy applications.
With a grant from the Office of Naval Research, MIT researchers aim to design novel high-performance steels, with potential applications including printed aircraft components and ship hulls.
New material could be used by Tesla to produce all-electric vehicles with just a few massive parts.
Building and working a clay-and-grass furnace, teachers and students learn more than how to turn ore into metal.
Study shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving metal properties.
New understanding of metal electrolysis could help optimize production of metals like lithium and iron.
Human hair is 50 times softer than steel, yet it can chip away a razor’s edge, a new study shows.
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and multinational mining company Vale bring sustainability education to young engineering professionals in Brazil.
MIT D-Lab and local community partners to deliver virtual trainings on making masks, hand sanitizer, vertical gardens, and portable chicken coops.
Spanish conquerors depended on indigenous expertise to keep up their munitions supplies, archaeologists have found.
Sorting through millions of possibilities, a search for battery materials delivered results in five weeks instead of 50 years.
MIT graduate student Seth Cazzell shows controlling pH enables reversible hydrogel formation in wider range of metal concentrations.
“Micromechanics informed alloy design: Overcoming scale-transition challenges” focuses on bridging scale gaps.
Newly synthesized compound of iron and tin atoms in 1-to-1 ratio displays unique behavior.
MIT researchers use a new machine learning technique to rapidly evaluate new transition metal compounds to identify those that can perform specialized functions.