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Michele Bustamante, a postdoc in the MIT Materials Systems Laboratory, won a Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship for her research analyzing supply risks and cost dynamics for key metals in high technology.

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.

July 11, 2018

Summer Scholar Abigail Nason (left) and graduate student Takian Fakhrul peer into a pulsed laser deposition chamber for creating thin films that combine magnetic properties and infrared light transparency to serve in waveguides and isolators for integrated photonic chips.

Summer projects in motion

Lab assignments for MIT Materials Research Laboratory undergraduate researchers and teachers cut across disciplines.

July 3, 2018

Carl Thompson is the Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of the Materials Research Laboratory at MIT.

Broadening the range of material rewards

Headed by Carl Thompson, the newly formed Materials Research Laboratory opens up opportunities for industrial partnerships.

June 18, 2018

A new MIT program will provide regular summer research opportunities in the lab of Assistant Professor Rafael Jaramillo to students from neighboring community colleges. Seen here, Noon Farsab, from Bunker Hill Community College, conducted research in Jaramillo’s lab during the summer of 2017.

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.

May 31, 2018

2018 Summer Scholars are: (top row, l-r) Danielle Beatty, Alvin Chang, Simon Egner, Elizabeth Hallett; (middle row, l-r) Julianna LaLane; Michael Molinski, Abigail Nason, Fernando Nieves Munoz; (bottom row, l-r) Sarai Patterson, Sabrina Shen, Ryan Tollefsen, and Ekaterina Tsotsos.

Introducing the 2018 Summer Scholars

Undergraduates from around the U.S. seek life-enriching experiences through MIT Materials Research Laboratory science and engineering internships.

May 7, 2018

Seven MIT graduate students are receiving 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships. Top row, left to right: Eeshan Chetan Bhatt, Frederick Daso, Ashley Kaiser, and Bharath Kannan. Bottom row, left to right: Peter Yucheng Lu, Molly Parsons, and Sarah Schwartz.

Seven from MIT named National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows

Fellowships last for up to three years, covering full tuition and mandatory fees.

May 2, 2018

An illustration depicting a kagome metal — an electrically conducting crystal, made from layers of iron and tin atoms, with each atomic layer arranged in the repeating pattern of a kagome lattice.

Physicists discover new quantum electronic material

With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior.

March 19, 2018

A recolored optical image obtained by MIT researchers shows a heart-shaped carbon nanotube cell. A version of the image is featured on the cover of the Feb. 14 print edition of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Getting to the heart of carbon nanotube clusters

MIT researchers create predictable patterns from unpredictable carbon nanotubes.

February 14, 2018

AIM Photonics Winter Academy drew more than 60 people together at MIT Jan. 16-18 for lectures and design labs on integrated photonics.

Integrating the promise of photonics

AIM Photonics Academy winter session draws over 60 participants from industry and academia.

January 29, 2018

A drawing illustrates the unusual topological landscape around a pair of features known as exceptional points (red dots), showing the emergence of a Fermi arc (pink line at center), and exotic polarization contours that form a Mobius-strip-like texture (top and bottom strips).

New exotic phenomena seen in photonic crystals

Researchers observe, for the first time, topological effects unique to an “open” system.

January 11, 2018

Roxbury Community College Chemistry and Biotechnology Professor Kimberly Stieglitz (left) discusses her summer research at MIT with JoDe M. Lavine, Bunker Hill Community College Professor and Chairperson of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Department, during the annual Summer Scholars Poster Session on Aug. 3. Stieglitz worked in the lab of AMAX Career Development Assistant Professor in Mater...

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.

January 2, 2018

MIT assistant professor of materials science and engineering Jennifer Rupp (center) receives BASF and Volkswagen's Science Award Electrochemistry at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Posing at the award ceremony are Rupp are: (l-r) Volkswagen AG Research and Development Group Head Ulrich Eichhorn, Catalytic Innovations founder and CEO Stafford Sheehan (who received a special prize for ...

Jennifer Rupp wins international electrochemistry prize

Assistant professor is honored for her work on energy storage systems and safer, solid-state lithium electrolyte batteries.

December 22, 2017

A molten hanging droplet, or pendant (at center), forms from an aluminum oxide rod under intense heat and light from xenon lamps. Using this process, MIT researchers have demonstrated a new electrochemical method to study thermodynamic processes in a molten oxide melt at temperatures above 2,000 degrees Celsius.

Capturing the properties of very hot compounds

MIT researchers demonstrate a new electrochemical method to study thermodynamic processes in an ultra-high temperature molten oxide.

December 14, 2017

MIT AIM Photonics Academy Executive Director Lionel Kimerling speaks during a meeting at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, on Nov. 14. “With the help of the state, Massachusetts can be the Silicon Valley for the growth of ultra-high performance communications systems using integrated photonics,” he said.

MIT's AIM Photonics Academy looks to expand

Recent Stonehill College meeting puts laser focus on plan to grow and enhance regional integrated photonics education and training.

November 30, 2017

A new material produced by Juejun Hu and his team can be repeatedly stretched without losing its optical properties.

Researchers develop flexible, stretchable photonic devices

Light-based devices could be used as biomedical sensors or as flexible connectors for electronics.

November 7, 2017

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