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Why some quantum materials stall while others scale
In a new study, Mingda Li and MIT researchers evaluated quantum materials’ potential for scalable commercial success — and identified promising candidates.
Mingda Li named 2025 American Physical Society Fellow
Mingda Li, an Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has been named a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Nominated by the Topical Group on Data Science (GDS), Li was cited, “[f]or pioneering the integration of artificial intelligence with...
New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials
With SCIGEN, researchers can steer AI models to create materials with exotic properties for applications like quantum computing.
Theory-guided strategy expands the scope of measurable quantum interactions
A new study by Mingda Li and his team finds an oft-ignored effect can be used to probe an important property of semiconductors.
The tenured engineers of 2025
NSE's Mingda Li is one of eleven faculty members have been granted tenure in six units across MIT’s School of Engineering.
A new approach to fine-tuning quantum materials
An MIT-led group shows how to achieve precise control over the properties of Weyl semimetals and other exotic substances Quantum materials – those with electronic properties that are governed by the principles of quantum mechanics such as correlation and entanglement – can...
AI method radically speeds predictions of materials’ thermal properties
The approach, developed by NSE’s Mingda Li and a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere, could help engineers design more efficient energy-conversion systems and faster microelectronic devices, reducing waste heat.
Mingda Li, one of two MIT teams selected for NSF sustainable materials grants
Chosen from 16 finalist teams, Prof Li’s project will be finding pathways to scale up sustainable topological materials, which have the potential to revolutionize next-generation microelectronics by showing superior electronic performance, such as dissipationless states or high-frequency response.
With inspiration from “Tetris,” MIT researchers develop a better radiation detector
The device, based on simple tetromino shapes, could determine the direction and distance of a radiation source, with fewer detector pixels.
Propelling atomically layered magnets toward green computers
MIT scientists have tackled key obstacles to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for the next generation of energy-efficient computers.