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DuPont boosts MIT funding DIRT-FREE MIT professor Michael Rubner demonstrates a fabric made superhydrophobic with a coating material similar to the surface of the lotus leaf. DUPONT MIT ALLIANCE PHOTO DuPont is adding $25 million in funding to the DuPont MIT Alliance, a next-generation materials research program it established at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. DuPont originally invested $35 million over five years. At MIT last week, DuPont Chief Technology Officer Thomas M. Connelly Jr. announced a five-year extension, creating a 10-year, $60 million commitment that he called the largest corporate R&D investment at MIT. The first five years focused on new materials from nature and biology, Connelly said, while the second five will include nanocomposites, nanoelectronic materials, alternative energy technology, and safety and protection materials |
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