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Building Better Bridges from the Inside
Allium, cofounded by NSE alums Sam McAlpine and Stephen Jepeal tackles the issue of rust buildup by coating inexpensive rebar with stainless steel in a way that fully integrates the two.
Accelerating hardware development to improve national security and innovation
Nominal co-founded by NSE alum Cameron McCord has built a platform for building and testing complex systems like fighter jets, nuclear reactors, rockets, and robots.
New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy
MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has launched the Schmidt Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technologies, or LMNT (pronounced “element”). Backed by a philanthropic consortium led by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, LMNT is designed to speed up the discovery and selection of materials for a variety of fusion power plant components.
Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel
Allium Engineering, founded by Sam McAlpine PhD ’22 and Steven Jepeal PhD ’21), developed a process for improving steel rebar to triple the lifetime of bridges and other infrastructure
The race to fusion
Dennis Whyte, a leader in fusion research, shares how MIT’s fusion program has started the move from the lab to market, and explains how unlocking commercial fusion could be a gamechanger for our energy system.
MIT Maritime Consortium sets sail
A new international collaboration unites MIT and maritime industry leaders to develop nuclear propulsion technologies, alternative fuels, data-powered strategies for operation, and more. The consortium brings together MIT collaborators from across campus, including the Center for Ocean Engineering, which is housed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; IDSS, which is housed in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; the departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering; MIT Sea Grant; and others, with a national and an international community of industry experts.
Nuno Loureiro receives Presidential Early Career Award
Loureiro was nominated by the NSF for his work on the generation and amplification of magnetic fields in the universe. He is among 400 scientists and engineers recognized for outstanding leadership potential.
For clean ammonia, MIT engineers propose going underground
New computational chemistry techniques accelerate the prediction of molecules and materials
A multi-task machine learning approach is developed to predict the electronic properties of molecules, as demonstrated in the computational workflow illustrated here. Back in the old days, the really old days, the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course...
Unlocking the hidden power of boiling — for energy, space, and beyond
Uncovering the physics of boiling could enable advances in efficient energy production, electronics cooling, water desalination, medical diagnostics, and more.