Computational chemists design better ways of discovering and designing materials for energy applications.

With a grant from the Office of Naval Research, MIT researchers aim to design novel high-performance steels, with potential applications including printed aircraft components and ship hulls.

Study shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving metal properties.

New understanding of metal electrolysis could help optimize production of metals like lithium and iron.

Human hair is 50 times softer than steel, yet it can chip away a razor’s edge, a new study shows.

Spanish conquerors depended on indigenous expertise to keep up their munitions supplies, archaeologists have found.

Sorting through millions of possibilities, a search for battery materials delivered results in five weeks instead of 50 years.

MIT graduate student Seth Cazzell shows controlling pH enables reversible hydrogel formation in wider range of metal concentrations.

Newly synthesized compound of iron and tin atoms in 1-to-1 ratio displays unique behavior.

MIT researchers use a new machine learning technique to rapidly evaluate new transition metal compounds to identify those that can perform specialized functions.