MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering is known as the world-wide leader of its field, based on its academic program, its highly regarded faculty, and the high caliber of its students. Research ranges from the purely scientific to applied studies and involves perspectives of chemistry, physics, electronics, the artistic and historical aspects of materials, design, and entrepreneurial ventures. Learn more
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT profiles three prominent interdisciplinary researchers at MIT. Profiles include Maria Zuber, a geophysicist renowned for her research on planetary surfaces; Vladimir Bulovi?, an electrical engineer developing lightweight ...
A team of MIT researchers has found a coating that outperforms others not only in preventing foggy buildups, but also in maintaining good optical properties without distortion.
Bettinger describes his work at EmTech 2011: Tailoring polymers for biodegradable implants Carnegie Mellon University As a graduate student at MIT, Christopher Bettinger created strong, rubbery polymers that mimic natural tissue and can be tail
This video gives a quick overview of the department and its lab-centered curriculum.
MIT researchers found that arc-shaped magnetic nanotracks could be used most effectively to control the motion of magnetic microbeads across the surface of a silicon wafer. By combining these arcs, they produced configurations such as this, with two "reservoir" rings ...
MADMEC Design Events introduce the teams to a specific prototyping tool, while helping them use and develop their MIT engineering know-how. The theme of Design Event 1 was the MADMEC 3DP TRACTOR PULL, during which the teams pulled a 5 kg weight up the quarter elliptical ramp, using an ...
SiSi Ni demonstrates the winning prototype for MADMEC 2010. Notice that the curtains open as she covers the light sensor with her hand, and close as she uncovers it.
Lorna Gibson is the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
This is a recorded presentation of a talk given by Karl Berggren at the Molecular Materials conference in Singapore on Jan 9, 2012.
"A revolutionary super-slippery coating to liberate your ketchup!"
Twelfth annual Page Hazlegrove Lecture in Glass Art, sponsored by the MIT Glass Lab in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
14th annual Page Hazlegrove Lecture in Glass Art, sponsored by the MIT Glass Lab in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Processing Center.
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Jeffrey Grossman explores new possibilities in topics from molecules to rooftop solar panels. Read more about Grossman's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/profile-grossman-0126.html
In a lecture that could have been titled "Better Education through Chemistry," Don Sadoway begins with solar energy, grid-level storage, and liquid metal batteries and moves into education innovation around new and radical ways to teach chemistry.
Sometimes color helps. Sometimes it just gets in the way, says MIT's Felice Frankel
MIT professor Karen K. Gleason explains how graduate student Miles Barr folds a solar cell into a paper airplane.
Lorna Gibson is the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
A paper solar cell circuit is dynamically folded and unfolded while the voltage is simultaneously measured on the meter. The paper photovoltaic is illuminated from below with simulated solar illumination.
Check out 12 videos from various areas of ongoing research in the Department ofMaterials Science & Engineering.Video Credits:1. Aislinn Sirk, Sadoway Group2. Ardavan Oskooi, Johnson Group (Math Dept, Nanostructures & Computation)3. Ardavan Oskooi, Johnson ...
Startup company MC10 is commercializing stretchable silicon for smart surgical tools and wearable sensors. One of its first products will be a surgical tool that can quickly map and treat electrical problems in the heart.
