Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering is a 50-PI network with 66 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Engineering as the leading field (39% of slots across 39 PIs; 39 labels), Materials Chemistry as the leading subfield (19% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels), and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies as the leading topic (5% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Ju Li (28.9 weighted works; Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies); Yang Shao‐Horn (28.7 weighted works; Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies). The clearest collaboration lines are Lionel C. Kimerling and Anu Agarwal (35 shared works, weight 10.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 21.7, around Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, led by Jeffrey C. Grossman, Tonio Buonassisi, Moungi G. Bawendi.