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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / September 20, 2023

Mass production of MXenes, making hydrogen from plastic waste, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 20, 2023.

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Ceramics and ceramists on the Manhattan Project: A narrative of activities at MIT

By Lisa McDonald / September 5, 2023

There are many hidden stories of the people who worked on the Manhattan Project, which resulted in the world’s first atomic bombs. In 1990, the late ACerS Fellows Osgood J. Whittemore and Louis R. McCreight published an article uncovering some of this history by describing research conducted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop refractory crucibles for nuclear metals processing.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / August 23, 2023

Understanding nanoscale gaps, hidden structures below dark side of moon, and other materials stories that may be of interest for August 24, 2023.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / August 16, 2023

Mussel-inspired element recovery, paracrystallized aluminosilicate glass, and other materials stories that may be of interest for August 16, 2023.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / July 12, 2023

Carbon fiber and composites recycling, fermion pair images, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 12, 2023.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / July 5, 2023

Novel MOF for semiconductors, new moon rover, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 5, 2023.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / June 7, 2023

First X-ray of a single atom, protein for sorting rare earth elements, and other materials stories that may be of interest for June 7, 2023.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / May 31, 2023

Stretching metals at the atomic level, fastest industry standard optical fiber, and other materials stories that may be of interest for May 31, 2023.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / May 24, 2023

Cleaner hydrogen energy, lithography-free photonic chips, and other materials stories that may be of interest for May 24, 2023.

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Freely available deep learning method ‘fills in the blank’ of unknown internal material structures

By Lisa McDonald / May 9, 2023

What if you could predict a material’s internal microstructure based solely on its external surface characteristics? A new deep learning method developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides such a capability, and all data and codes used for the study are freely available for anyone to use through GitHub.

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