Bryan Ho, a graduate student in materials science and engineering, and Andy Muto and Daniel Kraemer, graduate students in mechanical engineering, have been working together on a thermoelectric system that could be installed in a hot-water pipe or in exhaust flues at the plant to get some extra electric power from heat currently going to waste. See the MIT News Office for the full story.

Prof. Christine Ortiz and collaborators have published an article in Nature Materials that documents their experimental and computational research that reveals the materials design principles in the scales of a primitive fish known as the “dinosaur eel”. See the MIT News Office or the Boston Globe for the full story.

Polypterus senegalus is a primitive fish whose scaly armor has yielded clues to MIT researchers seeking to better protect soldiers of the future. Photo courtesy Christine Ortiz.