How to hide like an octopus
Researchers create materials that reproduce cephalopods’ ability to quickly change colors and textures.
Researchers create materials that reproduce cephalopods’ ability to quickly change colors and textures.
Interfaces within materials can be patterned as a means of controlling the properties of composites.
Bilge Yildiz explores the dynamics of surfaces to design more resilient materials for applications in high-intensity environments.
Graduate student Wade Hsu and colleagues confine light to a crystal surface and design a transparent display using nanoparticles.
MIT graduate student Yichen Shen designs a photonic crystal system that lets light pass through at a specific angle.
Gang Chen’s thermoelectric devices turn waste heat into electricity for vehicles and other machines.
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture.
Brad Olsen creates bioinspired and biofunctional materials for widely diverse applications.
Finding could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.
Method can produce strong, lightweight materials with specific surface properties.
MIT researchers study bamboo for engineered building material, similar to plywood.
By looking to nature, PhD student Leon Dimas 3-D prints materials that resist flaws and fractures.