I remember first hearing about @AIatMeta / @CarnegieMellon 's Open Catalyst Project back in 2020 or so. A truly huge DFT effort to calculate many different molecules' catalytic reactions on different surfaces and even specific sites of distinct materials. What I didn't know

✨ People have asked for a titanium @MaterialismPod episode for ages! Well, it's finally here. I have to admit. I did not realize how complex and complicated Titanium was from a materials science perspective! 🧪🤯. 🔷🔶 Two phases with very different properties.🛠️🧬 A

Back in August I was at the @acceleration_c conference in Vancouver and I saw a really cool talk by @VSPARTICLE on "spark ablation." I had never heard of the technique, but it produces some killer nanoporous films. It takes some of the benefits of spray pyrolysis like ambient

We decided to record an episode on quantum materials 3 years ago but it felt so daunting that we never finished it and we ultimately had to call in a ringer, @JasonKhoury1 of @ASU to help break it down and we're releasing the episode on his birthday 🎉 🎂!!. This episode is an

You remember that scene in #Oppenheimer with the giant glass jars slowly filling with marbles to represent the uranium and plutonium needed for the Manhattan project?. The project was saved by the Met Lab and Oak Ridge who provided the materials. Or was it???

A new class of materials doesn't show up very often but two decades ago researchers at Oxford and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan independently discovered alloys that break all the rules for solubility and phases. Listeners have requested an episode on High Entropy Alloys

I moved to Boston in 2009 for grad school. I remember the convenient tunnel that connects Cambridge to the airport by going *underneath* downtown Boston. What I didn't know was what went into the Big Dig project that was finished in 2007. The project took 16 years and grew in

The discovery of new materials is an immense challenge, with a vast design space and numerous success criteria. @Microsoft has recently demonstrated an advanced approach to machine learning-assisted material discovery, particularly in the realm of lithium-ion battery

I am a *huge* advocate of teaching strong communication skills to our engineering students. All jobs require engineers to get ideas across clearly and persuasively. Perhaps none more than the materials salesman. Dan Wilson of SINTX is as good as they come!

In academia, unicorns do exist: a paper getting accepted without revisions or stumbling on a discovery by sheer luck. But what if you were invited to work on a PhD project that not only turned into a thriving startup but also defined your career for the next three decades? Check.