Fiber “barcodes” can make clothing labels that last
Drawing inspiration from butterfly wings, reflective fibers woven into clothing could reshape textile sorting and recycling.
Drawing inspiration from butterfly wings, reflective fibers woven into clothing could reshape textile sorting and recycling.
Project will develop new materials characterization tools and technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls.
Optics and photonics awards go to Professor Marin Soljacic as well as alumni Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato, Turan Erdogan, Harold Metcalf, and Andrew Weiner.
New repair techniques enable microscale robots to recover flight performance after suffering severe damage to the artificial muscles that power their wings.
Developed at SMART, the nondestructive nanosensors could have wide applications in agricultural science.
The second annual student-industry conference was held in-person for the first time.
Materials scientist Anna Osherov helps researchers comprehend the nanoscale down to an atom using MIT.nano’s characterization tools.
MIT engineers find specialized nanoparticles can quickly and inexpensively isolate proteins from a bioreactor.
19th Microsystems Annual Research Conference reveals the next era of microsystems technologies, along with skiing and a dance party.
Associate Professor Robert Macfarlane is uncovering design principles that allow researchers to fine-tune materials at many size scales.
Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.
A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.
Using bottlebrush-shaped particles, researchers can identify and deliver synergistic combinations of cancer drugs.
Their technique could allow chip manufacturers to produce next-generation transistors based on materials other than silicon.
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.