Matter and Systems News

October 6, 2025

Initiative Lead Q&A: Akanksha Menon on Designing the Future of Buildings

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Menon discusses her interdisciplinary approach to improving building sustainability and efficiency through advanced materials and systems.

Researchers show off a lung-on-a-chip that has an immune system. Long term, this technology could lead to highly personalized medicine

September 24, 2025

Breathtaking Breakthrough: Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself

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Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, and administer lifesaving therapies.

The inaugural cohort of the IMS graduate student apprenticeship program and their mentors.

September 24, 2025

Inaugural Cohort of Graduate Apprentices Announced

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Nine graduate students have been chosen for IMS's new apprenticeship program, offering practical training in fabrication, characterization, and systems-level problem-solving.

man baring chest an holding a patch against his skin

September 23, 2025

Georgia Tech Startup Sets Sights on Transforming Heart Failure Care

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Heart failure remains one of the most challenging conditions to monitor outside the clinic.

September 18, 2025

A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems

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The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.

Biomedical Engineering graduate students work on their custom hydraulic press

September 18, 2025

Adipose Under Pressure: IMS Facilities Highlight

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Using tools in the MPCF, biomedical students developed a method to refine fat grafts by applying intense pressure to isolate beneficial tissue.

September 16, 2025

Saad Bhamla Named 2025 Schmidt Polymath

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Schmidt Sciences announces next cohort of early-to mid- career scientists to each receive up to $2.5 million to pursue novel research

Headshots of Matthew McDowell and Ryan Lively

September 9, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Named Finalists for Prestigious Blavatnik Science Awards

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Ryan Lively and Matthew McDowell are recognized for pioneering work in sustainable chemical engineering and advanced battery technologies.

August 27, 2025

Bakir Named Inaugural GlobalFoundries Termed Chair

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The appointment recognizes Bakir’s leadership in advanced packaging and expands Georgia Tech’s role in the field.

August 26, 2025

Updated User Rates for Core Facilities

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Beginning September 1, The Institute for Matter and Systems will implement new user rates.

Outside the Marcus nanotechnology Building

August 25, 2025

IMS Funds New Research Initiatives and Programs

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Four initiatives and two programs have received support from the Institute for Matter and Systems to advance interdisciplinary research with real-world impact.

August 21, 2025

Tiny Fans on the Feet of Water Bugs Could Lead to Energy Efficient, Mini Robots

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A new study explains how tiny water bugs use fan-like propellers to zip across streams at speeds up to 120 body lengths per second

AI rendering of a fast-charging battery.

August 18, 2025

Breaking the Rules to Build a Better Battery

4 min read

Charging batteries quickly was thought to degrade them. Georgia Tech’s findings flip that logic and open new doors for energy storage.

August 15, 2025

Inaugural Cohort of Georgia Tech’s Research Leadership Academy Announced

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Inaugural Cohort of Georgia Tech’s Research Leadership Academy Announced

Student working with IMS staff in the fabrication cleanroom

August 12, 2025

New Graduate Apprenticeship Program Launches at the Institute for Matter and Systems

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The program offers a structured, hands-on research apprenticeship in the IMS fabrication and characterization core facilities.

Inside the new Marcus Nanotechnology Building cleanroom space

August 11, 2025

Institute for Matter and Systems Expands Cleanroom Facilities

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New 2,000-square-foot ISO 6 cleanroom advances semiconductor packaging innovation

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Harris Saunders, Jr. Chair and Professor in the Woodruff School and MSE, and Yao Xie, Coca-Cola Foundation Chair and Professor in ISyE.

August 7, 2025

Finding Clarity in the Noise: A New Way to Recover Hidden Signals at the Nanoscale

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Georgia Tech researchers develop a method to extract reliable information from noisy data in nanoscale imaging, advancing the study of ferroelectric materials.