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What happens when materials take tiny hits

November 29, 2018

When tiny particles strike a metal surface at high speed — for example, as coatings being sprayed or as micrometeorites pummeling a space station — the moment of impact happens so fast that the details of process haven’t been clearly understood, until now. A team of researchers at MIT has…more

The Electrochemical Materials Lab aims to develop the multifunctional materials of the future

November 29, 2018

Scientists and industry leaders alike have hypothesized that we are reaching the limits of our ability to design faster computational systems using traditional hardware like transistors. While quantum computing is a tantalizing solution to this problem, the technology is not yet ready for the…more

埃尔缪尔DMSE明矾,礼物在2018科学亚博网站首页Cooking Lecture

November 28, 2018

Clover Food Lab founder/CEO Ayr Muir joins famed chefs like Massimo Bottura and Wylie Dufresne as part of the 2018 Science and Cooking public lecture series at Harvard University. His focus? Using materials science to build more flavorful…more

2018 Materials Day

November 28, 2018

Materials Day Symposium and Poster Session
October 10, 2018
Kresge Auditorium This year’s annual MIT MRL Materials Day Symposium will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, in Kresge Auditorium from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The symposium will focus on imaging-…more

2018 Glass Lab Holiday Sale

November 15, 2018

The MIT Glass Lab's 2018 Holiday Sale is on:
Monday, December 10 from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PMand
Tuesday, December 11 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
inLobby 10: enter at 77 Massachusetts Ave, walk straight…more

New research center based in Minnesota to explore spintronics materials for advanced computing

November 13, 2018

Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/13/2018) — The University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering announced today that it will lead and house a new $10.3 million Center for Spintronic Materials in Advanced Information Technologies (SMART) focused on novel materials for advanced…more

Course 3 Senior Internship / Thesis Presentations

November 13, 2018

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Extending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries

November 8, 2018

Metal-air batteries are one of the lightest and most compact types of batteries available, but they can have a major limitation: When not in use, they degrade quickly, as corrosion eats away at their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion,…more

Ellen Swallow Richards: A One-Woman Parade of Firsts

November 8, 2018

是麻省理工学院的第一位女studen化学家和工程师t and faculty member “I wish I were triplets,” Ellen Swallow said as a newly arrived but belated Vassar College undergraduate, dreaming at 25 of making up for lost time. By the time she died at 68 of heart disease in 1911, she had built a…more

一个鲍威rful new battery could give us electric planes that don’t pollute

October 30, 2018

Brightly colored molecular models line two walls of Yet-Ming Chiang’s office at MIT. Chiang, a materials science professor and serial battery entrepreneur, has spent much of his career studying how slightly different arrangements of those sticks and spheres add up to radically different outcomes…more

New Microfluidics Devices

October 29, 2018

Microfluidics devices are tiny systems with microscopic channels that can be used for chemical or biomedical testing and research. In a potentially game-changing advance, MIT researchers have now incorporated microfluidics systems into individual fibers, making it possible to process much larger…more

Longer lasting storage needs cheaper chemistries

October 25, 2018

Energy storage is often mentioned as one of the remedies for California's duck curve problem, but the economics do not always work out. The technology is essential to a clean energy future, but it will be important to develop lower cost batteries with longer durations, according to…more

Helping blood cells regenerate after radiation therapy

October 24, 2018

Patients with blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma are often treated by irradiating their bone marrow to destroy the diseased cells. After the treatment, patients are vulnerable to infection and fatigue until new blood cells grow back. MIT researchers have now devised a way to…more

BBC Interviews Yoel Fink

October 24, 2018

Making clothes that can communicate Is the age of tech fibre really upon us? Professor Yoel Fink from MIT says his team is on the verge of developing true tech clothes that will be able to warn us that a car is approaching. They have been able to weave diodes into fabrics, without losing…more

Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry

October 23, 2018

Spectrometers — devices that distinguish different wavelengths of light and…more

2018 Materials Day Winners

October 23, 2018

MIT Materials Day Poster Session winners are [left to right] graduate students Vera Schroeder, Rachel C. Kurchin, Gerald J. Wang and Philipp Simons, and Postdoctoral Associate Mikhail Y. Shalaginov. Sixty students and postdocs presented their posters in La Sala de Puerto on Wednesday, Oct. 10,…more

Advanced Potash Technologies: Solving the food crisis with a better fertilizer

October 19, 2018

At a 2012 conference, Wender met with members of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, who he says quickly understood the magnitude and impact of the project and wanted to be involved. After less than a year of sponsored research, the team at the Allanore Group proposed a…more

Controllable Spintronics

October 16, 2018

A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also overcome some of the inherent physical limitations that have been slowing progress in this…more

Yoel Fink leads the way in fabric materials

October 12, 2018

Yoel Fink stands under an unassuming LED ceiling lamp wearing what appears to be just an ordinary baseball cap. “Do you hear it?” he asks. Semiconductor technology within the fibers of the hat is converting the audio encoded in light pulses to electrical pulses, he explains, and those pulses are…more

INALUM collaborates with MIT Energy Initiative to advance low-carbon energy technologies

October 12, 2018

Indonesia’s state-owned holding company PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Persero), also known as INALUM, is joining theMIT Energy Initiative(MITEI) as a member company to support research that advances development of low-carbon energy technologies and explore…more

Researchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization

October 11, 2018

Since the 2003 discovery of the single-atom-thick carbon material known as graphene, there has been significant interest in other types of 2-D materials as well. These materials could be stacked together like Lego bricks to form a range of devices with different functions, including…more

2018 MADMEC Results

October 11, 2018

Technology that uses light to clean water filtration systems in real time won the 2018 MADMEC competition on Oct. 9. The team that developed the system,Fiat Flux, received the…more

Anikeeva menitoned as a "hero of science" for unlocking the brain

October 3, 2018

Five foot three and compact as a gazelle, Anikeeva is a marathon runner, a rock climber, and one heck of a scientist. She was born to a pair of mechanical engineers in the former Soviet Union, where she so excelled at academics that she was moved to an elite high school, then majored in physics…more

Takian Fakhrul, Grad Student with the Ross Group, researching photonics

October 2, 2018

When Takian Fakhrul was a young girl, her father, then a graduate student in materials science at the University of Manchester, would bring her along to his lab. During these visits, she would peek at structures under the microscopes or watch him polish newly synthesized materials. And she just…more

Ferrimagnets speed up racetrack memories

September 24, 2018

Spintronics devices, which exploit the spin of an electron as well as its charge, could be ideal for use in high-density data storage devices and for next generation information processing. One promising technology involves using magnetic solitons, such as nanoscale domain walls and magnetic…more