Thin, long polymer fibers can be woven into 2D and 3D constructs and fabrics capable of radiation sensing and lensless imaging over unprecedented lengths.

Read the full article at SPIE

In September, Prof. Harry Tuller spoke at FERMiO, Functional Energy Related Materials at the University of Oslo. His topic was ”Current developments at MIT within nano-ionics and mixed conducting cathodes”.

FERMiO is a five-year center, under the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MNF), hosted at the Department of Chemistry, comprising groups in Physics and Chemistry within the respective institutes and within Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN).

Prof. Gerd Ceder explains his work on faster charge and discharge for batteries to the Washington Post.

Prof. Michael Cima is among the MIT researchers who are turning engineering tools to new use in the fight cancer. At the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, biologists and engineers work together, using computation, nanoscale fabrication, and high-resolution imaging to develop new treatments and diagnostic tools. See the MIT News Office for the full story.

Please join the Materials Research Society (MRS) and DMSE in its second Lunch and Lecture of the Fall semester with Professor Michael Demkowicz.

Pizza and refreshments will be served!

Tailoring nanocomposite properties by atomic-scale design of interfaces

Michael J. Demkowicz, John C. Chipman Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Thursday, October 22nd

12:00pm-1:00pm (pizza and refreshments will be served at 11:40am)

The Chipman Room (6-104)

Abstract:

As the characteristic microstructural dimensions of a composite material decrease, its interface area-to-total volume ratio increases. In nanocomposites, interfaces make up such a large fraction of the total material that they may dominate its thermal, mechanical, and diffusion behavior. Understanding the atomic-level structure and properties of interfaces is therefore essential to explaining and controlling the macroscale behaviors of nanocomposites. This talk will present how atomistic simulations can shed light on the role of interfaces in the radiation response of Cu-Nb multilayer nanocomposites as well as how this insight can be used to design new radiation-resistant materials.

*The MRS “Lunch N Lecture” is a series of informal talks from any faculty member whose research interests are in materials. To learn more about the MRS and its lecture series, please visit the MRS homepage. Want to see a particular faculty member give a talk? E-mail the MRS officers at mrschapter.officers@mit.edu and give us suggestions!

Sponsored by MRS and DMSE