HEMI - Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute

02/26/2026

Every year, a small group of students from the Maryland Institute College of Art spend the summer combining HEMI's research with their artistic practice.

Mantis Harper-Blanco, a sculpture artist in the 2023 Extreme Arts cohort, carefully cultivated oyster and reishi mushrooms to create mycelium-based material for artistic and practical applications. With help from HEMI Fellow Kenneth JT Livi, Harper-Blanco was able to take a more analytical approach to mycelium, quantifying the structural limits of mycelium as a material.

Proposals for this year's HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts program are due on March 15.
https://hemi.jhu.edu/opportunities/hemi-mica-extreme-arts-summer-project-internship/

02/24/2026

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using a cutting-edge liquid metal extrusion system—the ValCUN Minerva—to print and study highly complex metal structures. By selecting specific architectures that are designed to induce stress concentrations, researchers can predict how these materials will break apart.

This project, enabled by congressional funding, is part of the Materials Science in Extreme Environments University Research Alliance (MSEE URA), a research consortium led by Johns Hopkins. MSEE seeks to understand, predict, and control the behavior of materials in extreme conditions caused by weapons of mass destruction.

Read more about MSEE's research projects, notable achievements, events, and personnel in this year's annual newsletter.

https://hemi.jhu.edu/mseeura/facilities-spotlight-deployable-liquid-metal-extrusion-system-for-reactive-alloys-at-johns-hopkins-university/

02/24/2026

It's Engineer's Week and throughout the week we will be showcasing just how important our engineers are to the research we do and innovation we strive for here at INBT! Read more about Rebecca Schulman's research and recent NSF award here: https://inbt.jhu.edu/chemical-and-biomolecular-engineer-rebecca-schulman-receives-nsf-trailblazer-engineering-impact-award/

02/18/2026

We are pleased to announce the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship for 2026!
Current MICA undergraduate or graduate students are eligible to submit a proposal for a summer art project inspired by HEMI research. Visit our website for more information. Proposals are due on March 15, 2026.

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) and the Maryland Institute College of art (MICA) are pleased to announce the Extreme Arts Summer Project/Internship for summer 2026. The goal of the project/internship is to develop creative visual representations of HEMI’s structure, current research...

10/10/2025

Seminar starting soon! If you can't make it in person, tune in via Zoom.

Join us tomorrow for a HEMI Seminar with Dr. Jason Trelewicz. His talk, "Fusion Energy Materials: Challenges, Status, and the US Roadmap," starts at 11:30am and will be available on Zoom.

Details here: https://lnkd.in/eV-MdvnZ

10/09/2025

Join us tomorrow for a HEMI Seminar with Dr. Jason Trelewicz. His talk, "Fusion Energy Materials: Challenges, Status, and the US Roadmap," starts at 11:30am and will be available on Zoom.

Details here: https://lnkd.in/eV-MdvnZ

10/08/2025

HEMI is excited to announce the arrival of Brad Boyce as a Research Professor. Dr. Boyce began his position with HEMI on September 1, and holds a primary appointment as a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. His scientific interests cover a broad range of extreme materials topics, including nanoscale mechanics, metallurgy, complex failure modes such as fatigue and stochastic ductile rupture, metastructures and metamaterials, additive manufacturing, and AI-guided materials discovery.

Please join us in welcoming Brad to the HEMI community!

10/07/2025

PhD student Sohanjit Ghosh has developed a novel method to quantify 3D ejecta velocities from 2D images. Ghosh's latest paper on high-velocity impacts into concrete furthers our understanding of phenomena crucial to planetary science and defense. https://lnkd.in/e629JChV