Students present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact At the sixth annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition, graduate students and postdocs sharpen their communication and presentation skills. October 29, 2019 Read full story →
American Physical Society honors three MIT professors for physics research James Collins, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Richard Milner have won top prizes for their work. October 24, 2019 Read full story →
Controlling 2-D magnetism with stacking order MIT researchers discover why magnetism in certain materials is different in atomically thin layers and their bulk forms. September 30, 2019 Read full story →
Creating new opportunities from nanoscale materials MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance. September 5, 2019 Read full story →
New insights into bismuth’s character Theorists at MIT and collaborators uncover hidden topological insulator states in bismuth crystals. August 6, 2019 Read full story →
Building the tools of the next manufacturing revolution From industrializing 3-D printing to creating nanomaterials at scale, John Hart is reimagining the way things are made. June 17, 2019 Read full story →
Pantry ingredients can help grow carbon nanotubes Study finds baking soda, detergent, and table salt — all rich in sodium — are effective catalysts. May 28, 2019 Read full story →
Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam New method could be useful for building quantum sensors and computers. May 17, 2019 Read full story →
Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports. March 14, 2019 Read full story →
Smoothing out the wrinkles in graphene Coating graphene with wax makes for a less contaminated surface during device manufacturing. March 6, 2019 Read full story →
Bose grants for 2018 fund research at the frontier of discovery The prestigious awards are supporting five innovative projects that challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing. February 11, 2019 Read full story →
Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2-D materials Device made from flexible, inexpensive materials could power large-area electronics, wearables, medical devices, and more. January 28, 2019 Read full story →
Researchers catalog defects that give 2-D materials amazing properties Theoretical analysis distinguishes observed “holes” from the huge list of hypothetically possible ones. January 14, 2019 Read full story →
Physicists record “lifetime” of graphene qubits First measurement of its kind could provide stepping stone to practical quantum computing. December 31, 2018 Read full story →
MIT research honored with Physics World “Breakthrough of the Year” awards "Magic-angle" graphene named 2018 Breakthrough of the Year; first ionic plane and earliest evidence of hydrogen gas named to top 10 breakthroughs. December 27, 2018 Read full story →