“We Take Apart the very First Instants of Destruction and Use Them
to Make the World a Safer Place.”

- Professor K.T. Ramesh, Director of the Johns Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute

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HEMI researchers receive NSF funding to design sustainable plastics

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HEMI Fellow Sarah Hörst Featured in New York Times for Exoplanetary Research

Sarah Hörst, HEMI Fellow and associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was recently featured in a...

Graduate students advised by HEMI Fellows win poster awards at 2021 SES Conference

Graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering earned poster awards at the 2021 Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual...

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The impact energy in an asteroid 1km in diameter can be equal to 30 billion Hiroshima atom bombs.

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Army Educational Outreach Program California Institute of Technology CCDC Army Research Laboratory Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (UK) Defense Threat Reduction Agency Drexel University Goddard Space Flight Center Ernst Mach Institut (Germany) ETH Zurich HEMI Corporate Partners Imperial College of London Institute of Shock Physics (UK) Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - Planetary Impact Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lehigh University Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center Maryland Institute College of Art Missile Defense Agency Morgan State University NASA National Institutes of Health New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology North Carolina A&T State University Protection Engineering Consultants Purdue University Rutgers University

Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Southwest Research Institute Texas A&M University University of California, Santa Barbara University of Delaware University of Houston University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of Texas at San Antonio US Army Aberdeen Test Center United States Advanced Ceramics Association Washington State University Washington University in St. Louis Wilmer Eye Institute

“We Take Apart the very First Instants of Destruction and Use Themto Make the World a Safer Place.”