“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

HEMI News

Announcing the HEMI AI-M Seed Grant Opportunity

The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity to support seed grants in the research...

WATCH: HEMI Fellow Sung Hoon Kang Discusses New Medical Device via 4D Printing

In a recent video interview, HEMI Fellow and Department of Mechanical Engineering assistant professor Sung Hoon Kang answered questions about...

HEMI Fellow Muyinatu ‘Bisi’ Bell Receives IEEE UFFC Star Ambassador Lectureship Award

Congratulations to HEMI Fellow Muyinatu Bell on receiving an IEEE UFFC Star Ambassador Lectureship Award! Bell is an assistant professor...

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: 2020 HEMI/MICA Artist in Residence

Monday, February 24 | 5:00pm

Composites CMRG Teleconference

Tuesday, February 25 | 9:30am

HEMI AI-M Seed Grant Notice of Intent Deadline

Friday, March 6 | 12:00am

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

HEMI cuts across three divisions within Johns Hopkins University: the Whiting School of Engineering, the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, and the Applied Physics Laboratory.

11 universities partner with Johns Hopkins to create the Institute.

HEMI is made possible by collaborations between
Johns Hopkins University and the following organizations:

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.”