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The MIT DMSE Breakerspace is a materials exploration lab open to all undergraduates.


Sample Library

Explore materials and prepared specimens documented by the Breakerspace. Records may include sample photographs, characterization results, preparation notes, and connections to instruments in the lab. Availability reflects the current physical collection; documentation remains accessible when a specimen has been consumed, removed, or retained only as a reference record.

2 samples

BS-000003 Documentation only

Diamond sharpening stone

Unused coarse diamond sharpening surface, showing sharp, angular diamond grains electroplated into a metallic matrix.

Class
Composite
Form
Commercially available sharpening tool
BS-000001 Documentation only

ion milled coffee bean

This green coffee bean was sliced and mechanically flattened, then slope-cut using the broad-beam ion mill. The low-magnification SEM image shows the original mechanically prepa...

Class
Biological
Form
Coffee bean, mechanically flattened then ion milled