Research and Development Programs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology :: R&D programs
Researchers at the MIT MRSEC are engaged currently in a number of R&D partnerships with industry:
IRG-I: Fink and Joannopoulos collaborate with OmniGuide Inc. to develop self-monitoring high-power optical photonic band gap fibers. Kolodziejski and Ippen have begun new work with Wide Net Technologies on the use of supercollimating photonic crystal devices for chemical sensing applications.
IRG-II: Rubner and Cohen have recently launched a number of new collaborations with industry that are a direct outgrowth of fundamental research in the MRSEC. They work with Toyota on the development of structural color pigments for car paint, with Essilor Corporation on the development of anti-fog coatings for eyewear, with Bayer Corporation on functional coatings for use in architectural elements, with Teledyne on self-decontaminating surfaces, and with Agilitron on a NASA program to create UV-anti-reflection coatings for space telescopes. All of these projects were made possible by basic discoveries made within IRG-II.
IRG-IV: Sadoway is involved with Zinc Matrix Power on the manufacturing of zinc-silver batteries– an important collaboration with industry that includes adoption of materials developed in the MRSEC.