Faculty Interest Areas

At MIT, materials research is done in many areas, by many different people and groups. Some of the most exciting areas of research in our Department cover

• Biological and biomimetic materials
• Energy harvesting, storage, and conversion
  
• Materials for the environment
  
• Economics of materials
  
• Materials for medicine and health-care
  
• Genetic and tissue engineering
  
• Synthetic polymers and polymer science
  
• Nanotechnology, nanodevices, and nanomaterials
  
• Nanoscale assembly and molecular architectures
  
• Materials culture and archeology
  
• Electronic and optical and magnetic materials
  
• Theory of materials and computational materials science
  
• High-performance nanostructured materials and alloys
• Photonics and photonic fibers

These areas are grouped under the following broad panels

• Archaeological Materials
  
• Bio- and Polymeric Materials
  
• Electronic, Photonic and Magnetic Materials
  
• Emerging, Fundamental, and Computational Materials Science
  
• Structural and Environmental Materials

and are complemented by focused programs that include

• Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
  
• Harvard-MIT Division of Leaders for Global Operations Program
  
• Program in Polymer Science and Technology

Some faculty pages on the Materials@MIT website provide project descriptions, links, and resources.