Stick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
MIT study reveals a new way to enhance or reduce the adhesion of freezing droplets.
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3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings
Technology developed at MIT could enable faster, cheaper, more adaptable building construction.
3-D printing with cellulose
World’s most abundant polymer could rival petroleum-based plastics as source of printing feedstock.
Technique enables adaptable 3-D printing
Once fabricated, objects can be altered by adding new polymers.
Faculty highlight: Robert Macfarlane
MIT chemist constructs nanoparticle-based crystals by programming interactions of synthetic polymers and biopolymers at the molecular level.
3-D-printed robots with shock-absorbing skins
By “programming” customized soft materials, CSAIL team can 3-D print safer, nimbler, more durable robots.
3-D Printing 101
As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with others.
Ideas in orbit
From MIT to the moon, and on campus, senior Raichelle Aniceto builds new connections.
Pushing engineering boundaries to spur infrastructure innovation
MIT hosts Infrastructure Innovation in a Changing Environment Conference.
Nanodevices at one-hundredth the cost
New techniques for building microelectromechanical systems show promise.
Interplanetary architecture
Faculty and students grapple with 3-D printing a habitable structure on Mars.