Center for Materials Science and Engineering @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) is devoted to the design, creation, and fundamental understanding of materials that are capable of enhancing the human experience. CMSE has a special mission: to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education in the science and engineering of materials that will address the future needs of society. CMSE promotes collaboration among MIT faculty and between MIT faculty and researchers of other universities, industry, and government laboratories.
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Research Groups
- IRG III Multimaterials Multifunctional Nano-structured Fibers
- IRG II Mechanomutable Heteronanomaterials
- IRG I Design of Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage
- Seed I Bioinspired Environment-Responsive Ligand-Coated Nanoparticles
- Seed II Ordered Microporous Electrodes for High-Power Sustainable Li-ion Batteries
- Seed III Engineering and Patterning Multiscale Nanostructures with Synthetic Biology
- Seed IV Atomic Layer Deposition for the Design of Novel Catalytic Materials
- Seed V Electrical-field Controlled Bio-membranes for Efficient Water Desalination
- Initiative (or Superseed) I High Def Nano Materials: New Routes to 3D Hierarchical Nanostructured Materials and Devices
- Initiative (or Superseed) II Quantum Optoelectronics and Spintronics with Topological Insulator Nanoscale Devices
Program Highlights
- April 18, 2013 Harnessing In-Fiber Fluid Instabilities To Create Multimaterial Particles From Fibers
- April 18, 2013 New Technique Provides Better Understanding of Problems with Lithium-Air Rechargeable Batteries
- April 13, 2012 Mechanical pressure can be used to resuscitate the beating “heart” of a polymer gel
- April 13, 2012 All-Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes for High-Energy Rechargeable Li-air Batteries
- April 11, 2011 Self-beating plastic gels can be induced to change size and color on demand
- April 11, 2011 Nanostructured carbon electrodes improve performance of batteries and capacitors
- December 1, 2010 Multimaterial acoustic fibers
- August 23, 2010 How the weak becomes strong: spider silk reveals a paradox of super-strength