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Materials science

Tim Weihs
Research in action
Muzzling mass destruction
Published Oct 29, 2025 Video
A Johns Hopkins-led research alliance across the country seeks to understand and mitigate the world's most lethal weapons
Drawings depicting a web of ideas and data have been placed over a photo of a microscope and test tubes.
Artificial Intelligence
AI lab assistant predicts material properties in seconds
Published Sept 19, 2025
Hopkins professor Kamal Choudhary has created a new AI tool for materials scientists, providing accurate answers to complex questions
Graduate student Riley Bond and Professor Howard Katz added voltage to the transistor and observed its ability to retain a charge
Materials science
Transistors that remember
Published Dec 9, 2024
Hopkins researchers reveal an unexpected quality in electrical switches, potentially impacting computer memory
From left, Dingchang Lin and Ziquan Zhuang
Faculty honors
Two researchers named Packard Fellows
Published Oct 15, 2024
Dingchang Lin, Ziquan Zhuang among 20 recipients of prestigious fellowship that supports creative and innovative lines of research by early career scientists
A group of people inspect some equipment in a lab setting
Century-old factory building now home to state-of-the-art facility
Published Oct 10, 2024
Engineering's Materials Characterization and Processing facility brings leading experts from around the world to Baltimore's Stieff Silver Building for inaugural workshop
Johns Hopkins physics doctoral student Alvin Modin in the lab
Materials science
Liquid crystals could revolutionize robots of the future
Published March 4, 2024
Robots, cameras could be made of liquid crystals, thanks to a new discovery that significantly expands the potential of the chemicals already common in computer displays
Side by side headshots of Hai-Quan Mao and Victor Velculescu
Faculty honors
Two named to National Academy of Inventors
Published Dec 20, 2023
Materials scientist Hai-Quan Mao, cancer researcher Victor Velculescu among 162 fellows recognized for contributions to science and society
Carter Hogg (center) pictured in a football stadium with brother FJ (left) and dad Jason
Playing defense against concussions
Published Winter 2023
JHU sophomore Carter Hogg founded a company to create a piece of protective equipment that reduces the risk of concussion / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of a syringe
Materials science
Tiny spinal stimulator, big impact on paralysis
Published Nov 27, 2023
A device designed by Johns Hopkins researchers may hold promise for restoring mobility to those with lower limb paralysis
Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney
Scientific mystery
Blood Falls, solved
Published Fall 2023
A waterfall that appears to be blood is, thankfully, something else / Johns Hopkins Magazine