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PhD student Pablo Leon uses machine learning to expedite research on novel battery materials, while helping newer students navigate graduate school. Rachel Yang | MIT News correspondent Building...

Mitsui Chemicals will supply biomass-derived BPA to Teijin, which will use it to produce biomass polycarbonate resin. Japanese Resin Makers Collaborate Biomass-Derived Polycarbonate: Mitsui Chemicals Inc....

by Wiley Rare Earth Materials on the Molecular Level: Rare-earth metals are indispensable for many technical products, from smartphones, laptops, batteries, electromotors, and wind turbines, to...

Plastic upcycling provides a way to reuse the waste carbon now cluttering landfills and beaches. Credit: Sara Levine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory by Pacific Northwest National...

Chemically altered lignin combined with polyacrylonitrile strengthens carbon fiber while making it even lighter in weight. Recycled Plastics Boost Properties of Carbon Fiber: The second...

By Rachel Crowell The animals could inspire the creation of strong, but lightweight new materials Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common...

By Michelle Revels Manufacturing Metal-Organic Framework-Based Composites for Efficiency: Dr. Qingsheng Wang, associate professor and George Armistead ‘23 Faculty Fellow in the Artie McFerrin Department...

by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Material that can Learn Like the Brain: EPFL researchers have discovered that Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound used in electronics,...

Fresh evidence that water can change from one form of liquid into another, denser liquid, has been uncovered by researchers. The research was carried out...

Rechargeable Grid Storage Batteries: Over the past few years, scientists have been hard at work trying to develop rechargeable zinc-manganese dioxide batteries into a...