Professor Donald Sadoway researches energy storage, a project that could help speed the development of renewable energy. See the MIT News Office for the full story.

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).

A computational approach to materials science and engineering could bring new properties even to familiar substances such as concrete and steel. See the MIT News Office to learn more about computational work being done in DMSE.

This week, Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang will receive the American Ceramic Society with the ACerS 2009 Corporate Technical Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding achievement in field of ceramics, particularly in founding A123 Systems.  A cover story in the ACerS Bulletin describes how Prof. Chiang became a materials scientist and the history of A123. DMSE Alumni/ae and friends will recognize many names of instructors, colleagues, and friends.

During his visit to MIT, President Obama met with several leading researchers in new energy technologies, among them Prof. Angela Belcher. Learn more about the visit from the MIT News Office.