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MIT-led Teams Win National Science Foundation Grants to Research Sustainable Materials

Materials Research Laboratory | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering | Department of Materials Science and Engineering

The teams will work toward sustainable microchips and topological materials as well as socioresilient materials design.

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March 21, 2023

Three MIT-led teams, two of which include MIT AI Hardware Program researchers, are among 16 nationwide to receive funding awards to address sustainable materials for global challenges through the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program. Launched in 2019, the program targets solutions to especially compelling societal or scientific challenges at an accelerated pace, by incorporating a multidisciplinary research approach.

“Solutions for today’s national-scale societal challenges are hard to solve within a single discipline. Instead, these challenges require convergence to merge ideas, approaches, and technologies from a wide range of diverse sectors, disciplines, and experts,” the NSF explains in its description of the Convergence Accelerator program. Phase 1 of the award involves planning to expand initial concepts, identify new team members, participate in an NSF development curriculum, and create an early prototype.

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