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Announcing a new MIT Consortium United4Knowledge:Ukraine which provides opportunities for foundations, donors and companies to connect with the best talent in Ukraine and MIT and enhance the Ukrainian scholarly ecosystem.
Congratulations to Hannah Gold, a winner of the Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Hannah’s research will be focused on building a pipeline for discovery and engineering of mechanocaloric effects in polymers.
Congratulations to Simo Pajovic, Abhishek Mukherjee, and Duo Xu for winning the MathWorks Graduate Student Fellowships for 2024-2025 academic year.
Simo Pajovic has been accepted to the summer student program at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and will spend the summer working at LANL on engineering nonreciprocal nanophotonic systems.
A joint STTR project with the Cosmic Shielding Corporation has been awarded a United States Air Force contract to enable in-orbit capabilities using shielded COTS GPUs. Satellite designers have faced restrictions on the types of electronic systems they could safely use since the beginning of the space age. Space radiation has barricaded us from using the newest, most cutting edge computing technologies enjoyed on earth because they are vulnerable to the effects of space radiation.
Morgan’s and Abhishek’s papers have been selected for the oral onsite presentation at the highly-competitive Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO).
‘Advanced materials from heritage lace craft,’ a project that uses generative AI to re-engineer traditional handcrafted textiles for modern applications has received an MIT Generative AI Impact Award.
SVETEX textiles nominated for the EarthShot prize
Low-carbon passively-cooling SVETEX polyethylene textile technology addresses global challenges on providing thermal comfort, recycling plastic waste, reducing terrestrial plastic pollution, and enabling space exploration.
Congrats to Abhishek Mukherjee – a winner of the 2024 Siebel Scholars award. The Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes 100 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.
Elastocaloric fibers featured at MIT Energy Night
Buxuan Li, You Lyu and Duo Xu presented solid-state elastocaloric refrigerator and heat pump materials developed in the META Lab as an efficient and sustainable replacement for the conventional HVAC technology.
Dr. Svetlana Boriskina and her colleagues at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, and the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil, have won a prestigious Global-X Challenge 2023 worldwide competition sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The team will work on the development of dual-envelope multi-functional textile for naval operators and vehicles, which combines a passive smart fiber network for thermoregulation, protection, camouflaging, and an active functional fiber network for energy harvesting, health monitoring, and environmental sensing.
META group research on the Axiom Ax-2 mission launch
Axiom Space Ax-2 mission carried to space radiation shields prototyped by Duo Xu and Dr. Volodymyr Korolovych in collaboration with the Cosmic Shielding Corp as well as the MIT Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit equipped by strain sensors co-developed by Amy Hyunh.
META Lab has been awarded three MISTI Global Seed Fund grants for collaborative work with colleagues in Israel, Poland, and Czech Republic on renewable energy and water security. These projects involve a network of Ukrainian students and research teams and aim to support research and education in the war-torn country.
Congrats to Simo Pajovic – a winner of a Best Poster Award at the MRS Fall 2022 Meeting in Boston
Congrats to Hannah Gold – a winner of a 2022-2023 MIT Presidential Fellowship
Congrats to Buxuan Li – a winner of a 2022-2023 Evergreen Fellowship supported by the MIT Deshpande Center
Congrats to Amy Huynh – a winner of an NSF Graduate Fellowship
Congrats to Simo Pajovic – the winner of a 2022 Wunsch Foundation Silent Hoist and Crane Award for Excellence in a Graduate Student
BBC NEWS: Turning plastic bags into clothes for sustainable fashion
(knitting credit: Mary Jane Schmuhl; image credit: Felice Frankel).
MIT NEWS: Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
(knitting credit: Mary Jane Schmuhl; image credit: Felice Frankel).
Congrats to the students Matteo Alberghini & Francesco Signorato – the winners of a Runner-Up Award at the 2019 MIT MechE Research Exhibit!
Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately – MIT News
Materials to Help Beat the Heat—in Style – Optics and Photonics News
In New Material, Color and Thermal Properties Can Be Tuned Separately – Photonics.com
(image credit: Felice Frankel)
New plastic films deflect or trap heat with zero energy required – Science Daily
Black polymer films can be made cooler at a stretch – Materials Today
Wearable Fabrics for Passive Heating and Cooling – Can Polyethylene Do Both? – MRS Meeting Scene Highlights
How next-generation fabrics will keep you cool in summer heat – MIT Technology Review
Material witness: could polythene clothes be cool? – Nature Materials News & Views
