Materials-science innovation on display at MADMEC | MIT News

Materials-science innovation on display at MADMEC | MIT News

For its invention, the PolyClean team — which includes PhD student Mukarram Tahir — won the $10,000 grand prize at yesterday’s competition, hosted annually by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and sponsored by Saint-Gobain and Dow Chemical. Another team won a $6,000 second-place prize for inventing a novel soil treatment to fight erosion and retain nutrients, and a third-place team took home $4,000 for developing a hydrogel that can be used to manufacture self-shading windows.