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Members of the Fink lab use laser light - produced by a powerful carbon dioxide laser and transported through the new photonic bandgap fiber - to burn a smiley face in one of the materials that is used to make the fiber.

MIT's new optical fiber carries more power with less loss

December 18, 2002

Flemings

Two chairs to honor Flemings

December 11, 2002

Members of the Fink lab use laser light- produced by a powerful carbon dioxide laser and transported through the new photonic bandgap fiber- to burn a smiley face in one of the materials that is used to make the fiber.

MIT's new optical fiber carries more power with less loss

December 11, 2002

Professor Michael Rubner (left), director of the Center for Materials Science and Engineering, and project technician Tim McClure check the laser in the Raman Spectrometer before setting up an experiment. The spectrometer is part of the center's shared experimental facilities, funded by a $22.2 million NSF grant.

$22.2 million grant to support materials research, K-12 outreach

November 20, 2002

Rechargeable batteries could be transformed by new MIT material

October 30, 2002

New MIT material could impact rechargeable batteries

October 23, 2002

Ting Zhu (left), Ju Li, and Krystyn Van Vliet stand below an image in MIT's NanoMechanical Technology Lab that is akin to one they included in their paper on predicting defects in materials.

Model predicts origin and outcome of defects in a material

October 2, 2002

Ting Zhu (left), Ju Li, and Krystyn Van Vliet stand below an image in MIT's NanoMechanical Technology Lab that is akin to one they included in their paper on predicting defects in materials.

Model predicts birthplace of defect in a material

October 2, 2002

Materials science and engineering announces awards

June 12, 2002

Professors Christine Ortiz and Alan Grodzinsky stand by a new nanomechanical instrument called the molecular force probe that will aid nanoscale studies of cartilage.

MIT probes cartilage on nanoscale

June 12, 2002

Professors Christine Oritz and Alan Grodzinsky stand by a new nanomechanical instrument called the molecular force probe that will aid studies of cartilage on the nanoscale.

MIT probes cartilage on nanoscale

June 11, 2002

A film made from phage and biosynthesized nanoparticles is one material produced by viruses in the Belcher lab.

Viruses can be made to churn out high-tech nanomaterials

May 8, 2002

Super-molecular assemblies: a film is made from phage and biosythesized nano-particles.

Viruses put to work making high-tech materials

May 2, 2002

Yoel Fink frames his face with the mirror fiber he and colleagues created. The conventional wire in Fink's left hand shows the reflective superiority of the new fiber.

Mirror fibers could create novel fabrics

April 24, 2002

Professor Yoel Fink, far left, graduate student Shandon Hart, center, and post-doc Burak Temelkuran worked on the project

Mirror fibers could create photonic fabrics

April 23, 2002