Microbes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech
Cullen Buie manipulates micro-scale phenomena to optimize energy conversion devices.
Improving a new breed of solar cells
Quantum-dot photovoltaics set new record for efficiency in such devices, could unlock new uses.
Product Design and Development class partners with MIT Sloan and RISD
Course 2.739 brings engineering, business, and design students together to learn about developing new products
A new way to make sheets of graphene
Technique might enable advances in display screens, solar cells, or other devices.
EECScon and Masterworks events raise awareness of student research
Two venues provide industry, faculty, and student guests with full range and depth of research.
Sallie “Penny” Chisholm receives MIT’s Killian Award
Highest honor for MIT faculty members goes to pioneer of research on ocean’s photosynthetic organisms.
Why eumelanin is such a good absorber of light
Researchers uncover secret of a ubiquitous pigment’s ability to absorb a broad spectrum of light.
A new way to harness waste heat
Electrochemical approach has potential to efficiently turn low-grade heat to electricity.
3 Questions: Scott Kemp on rethinking nuclear security efforts
MIT professor argues the barriers to weapon acquisition today are not technological.
New method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers discover a way for temperature gradients in fluids to move objects.
The science of networking
MIT senior Esther Jang uses science, engineering, and teaching to help others and challenge herself.
Dahleh appointed leader in LIDS
Planning the next steps for information and decisions systems at MIT.
Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D
New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm.
Team visualizes complex electronic state
Multidisciplinary group solves mystery of how a potential battery electrode material behaves.