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DMSE’s Assistant Professor Rodrigo Freitas is one of a select group of researchers to receive the Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from AFOSR. The award supports early-career faculty whose work could drive innovations in national defense.

New, easy-to-make materials improve organic electrochemical transistors—key to future bioelectronics and brain-inspired computing. Aristide Gumyusenge and team share their findings in Small: buff.ly/40Pbro4

DMSE Professor Jeehwan Kim, grad student Xinyuan Zhang, and other engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals, and could reduce the bulk of conventional goggles and scopes. buff.ly/PZvhFLF

As the presence of AI grows in research and academia, researchers will turn to tools like DMSE alum Zhichu Ren’s CRESt software. CRESt combines several AI technologies into an enhanced chatbot that can help to craft and run experiments. buff.ly/RR3xclV

A large contingent of Cem Tasan members traveled to Las Vegas the week of March 23 for the TMS 2025 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. Two DMSE sophomores in Tasan’s research group, Amelia How and Sebastian Arevalo, presented their research.

In a Nature Communications paper, DMSE Profs. Cem Tasan, Ju Li, and other researchers show that hydrogen both moves and pins dislocations—tiny defects in metals—influencing how metals behave in hydrogen-rich environments. buff.ly/fwZV0IX

On March 28-29, MIT held the 18th Workshop on Reactive Metal Processing organized by DMSE Profs. Donald R. Sadoway and Antoine Allanore, and UTokyo | 東京大学 Profs. Toru H. Okabe and Shunsuke Yagi. Attendees exchanged ideas on technologies critical for a sustainable future.

A video showcased at the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting & Exhibit features DMSE’s Laboratory for Physical Metallurgy as a hub for materials innovation and education. The MetLab is a foundational resource that enables cutting-edge research by students, faculty, and staff.

In a new Cambridge University Press paper, DMSE lecturer Jennifer Meanwell, U Calgary’s Elizabeth Paris, and Roberto López Bravo of UNICACH examine greenstone materials recovered from the Jovel Valley, Mexico—used to produce culturally significant items. buff.ly/wzvjMcw

Professor Jeehwan Kim, grad student Xinyuan Zhang, and other researchers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic material, paving the way for highly sensitive and compact imaging devices. Read more in nature: buff.ly/wO10wWq

At an MSE Seminar on April 15, Zakaria Al Balushi of UC Berkeley presented a scalable method for integrating two-dimensional semiconductors, such as molybdenum disulfide, into functional devices.

The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology has launched a new research group, WISDOM, to pioneer technologies that will help machines “see” like humans. DMSE Prof. Juejun Hu joins NTU Singapore's Prof. Tan Chuan-Seng as Co-Lead Principal Investigator. buff.ly/GzaJWPg

DMSE Profs. Cem Tasan, Ju Li, and other researchers explore the effects of hydrogen on tiny defects in metal, called dislocations. Their findings can help guide further studies of hydrogen, an emerging key energy source. Read more in Nature Communications:  buff.ly/b7cOwZE

New research in Cambridge University Press from DMSE lecturer Jennifer Meanwell and colleagues suggests that Late Classic and Early Postclassic Maya had access to diverse greenstone minerals—including serpentinite, green mica, and jadeite—used in tools and ornaments. buff.ly/fo76Bwy

On May 1, DMSE faculty Robert Macfarlane, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Rodrigo Freitas, and C. Cem Tasan led a panel on Scientific Networking. They encouraged graduate students and postdocs to build on their existing networks and to engage in committee service and workshops.

Professor Jeehwan Kim, DMSE grad student Xinyuan Zhang, and others have developed a new method to grow and peel thin electronic material, enabling mass production of ultrathin membranes with potential for next-generation devices. Read more in nature: buff.ly/8FMs2fN

DMSE Professors Angela Belcher, Yoel Fink, Frances Ross, and Bilge Yildiz are among the twenty-two MIT School of Engineering faculty members who received external awards in winter 2025 in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. buff.ly/1w1hWHl

DMSE welcomes new faculty members Tania Lopez-Silva, Thomas Rose, and Shaolou Wei, bringing expertise in bioinspired materials, archaeometallurgy, and sustainable alloy design. Lopez-Silva will join DMSE in July. Rose and Wei will begin in January 2026. buff.ly/zObl3YB

MIT has granted tenure to DMSE’s Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, recognizing his pioneering work accelerating the traditionally slow process of materials discovery by combining machine learning and materials engineering. buff.ly/dnILo4R

DMSE’s Iwnetim Abate, Hugh Smith & team improved a sodium-ion battery cathode by swapping in iron atoms and tuning its atomic structure. The result: better energy storage, longer life, and a step toward low-cost, earth-abundant batteries. buff.ly/Wc3yCNM