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Core Faculty

TMI's core faculty lead cutting-edge research by running their grants through the institute, fostering collaboration and resource sharing.

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Graduate Program

Our Materials Science and Engineering program is one of the best in the nation, and our graduates go on to be leaders in their fields.

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Research

TMI supports interdisciplinary research at UT Austin, with over 100 faculty focusing on clean energy, nanotechnology, and advanced materials using our state-of-the-art facilities.

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Goodenough Materials Innovation Lectures

In honor of Nobel Laureate Goodenough, this lecture series aims to bring leading experimentalists and theorists engaged in the broad field of materials to illustrate the past and present of materials research, and thereby create a vision for future innovation in this space.

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News

Predicting Electron Transport Under Surface Scattering

Surface is a common scatterer to electron transport. The surface scattering is critical to many applications such as interconnects and sensors. For example, as the demands of microelectronics push for increasingly smaller interconnects, the need for higher electrical conductivity becomes more pronounced.

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TMI Scientist Joins DOE’s Energy Innovation Hub to Advance Aqueous Battery Technology

The Yijin Liu group at The University of Texas at Austin is joining a landmark research effort aimed at revolutionizing energy storage technology as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) newly announced Energy Innovation Hub.

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Professor Manthiram Delivers Plenary Talk at the Italian Chemical Society National Congress

At the prestigious Societa Chimica Italiana (SCI) National Congress, held during August 26-30, 2024, in Italy, Professor Manthiram from the University of Texas at Austin took center stage to deliver a plenary talk on "Elements of Future for Sustainable Energy Storage."

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UT Austin Researchers Explore Ethanol Metabolism in the Brain in a Brand-new Study Published in Alcohol

Dr. Tanya Hutter and her team of researchers from UT Austin, with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), have made a significant contribution to the field of alcohol research.

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Guihua Yu Wins Falling Walls Breakthrough Award of The Year in Engineering and Technology

Texas Engineer Guihua Yu has been honored for his work to generate clean, drinkable water using solar energy.

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