MSE News
MSE's Katsuyo Thornton part of team whose Surprising discovery could lead to better batteries
A collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has observed an unexpected phenomenon in lithium-ion batteries—the most common...
Metals that court chaos could be the future of computing (video)
U-M assistant professor of materials science and engineering John Heron believes that entropy-stabilized oxides—metal mixtures that contain as many as eight different elements instead of...
Electricity, eel-style: Soft power cells could run tomorrow’s implantables
Inspired by the electric eel, a flexible, transparent electrical device could lead to body-friendly power sources for implanted health monitors and medication dispensers, augmented-reality contact...
Article: Controlling dislocation near material surfaces with atomic segregation
In an article recently published in Nature Materials, Assistant Professor Liang Qi and MSE Ph.D. candidate Chaoming Yang detail...
U-M grad student wins gold medal from Materials Research Society
MSE congratulates ME Ph.D. candidate Longji Cui for being one of only nine graduate students from across the globe to recently earn a gold medal from...
John (Chip) Keough '77 awarded the Pangborn Gold Medal from AFS
On Monday the American Foundry Society (AFS) Board of Awards unanimously awarded John (Chip) Keough (BS '77 Materials and Metallurgical Engineering)...
Atomistic calculations predict that boron incorporation increases the efficiency of LEDs
High-power white LEDs face the same problem that Michigan Stadium faces on game day — too many people in too small of a space....
Congratulations to our Engineering Graduate Symposium winners!
Kudos to six MSE graduate students who were winners at this year's Engineering Graduate Symposium, held November 10. The Engineering Graduate Symposium is a College-wide event...
Live-saving 'Incublanket,' created by Grace Hsia '12, a 'hot' product: The Detroit News
MSE alumna Grace Hsia (BSE '12) was recently featured in The Detroit News for advances with IncuBlanket, a nonelectric blanket she...
Fighting Cancer with Cancer: 3D cultured cells could drive precision therapy
Honeycomb-like arrays of tiny, lab-grown cancers could one day help doctors zero in on individualized treatments for ovarian cancer, an unpredictable disease that kills more...
Profs. Thornton, Mazumder, named TMS award winners
Congratulations to Professors Katsuyo Thornton and Jyoti Mazumder, who have been named 2018 TMS (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society) award winners. Both will be officially...
Nine earn graduate symposium awards
Congratulations to all the award winners announced at the 2nd Annual Materials Research Symposium on October 17. This year the symposium was open to all U-M graduate...
Advanced manufacturing lab opens in Detroit
Center to drive lightweight manufacturing technologyRobert D. and Julie A. Pehlke Endowed Graduate Student Fellowship Fund Established
Robert D. (BSE MetE ’55) and Julie A. Pehlkehave provided a gift to endow the Robert D. and Julie A. Pehlke Endowed Fellowship Fund at...
Turning waste heat into emissions-free electricity
A long-sought chemical cocktail developed by University of Michigan materials science researchers could turn waste heat in some of the world’s most energy-hungry industries into...