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High school students spend time at MIT building a low-cost fuel cell.
High school students spend time at MIT building a low-cost fuel cell.
Developed at SMART, the nondestructive nanosensors could have wide applications in agricultural science.
A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.
The MIT professor discussed a new nanoengineered platform to investigate strongly correlated and topological physics.
Palacios has served as director of the 6-A MEng Thesis Program, industry officer, and professor of electrical engineering.
A technique for synthesizing many “white graphene” nanotubes at a time paves the way for stronger, heat-resistant composites, and membranes for renewable energy.
Professors Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, and Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz as well as Yuan Cao SM ’16, PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and others honored for contributions to physics.
The findings could inform the design of practical superconducting devices.
Inspired by fireflies, researchers create insect-scale robots that can emit light when they fly, which enables motion tracking and communication.
The advance allows the particles to be placed deeper within biological tissue, which could aid with cancer diagnosis or monitoring.
A new way to make carbon fiber could turn refinery byproducts into high-value, ultralight structural materials for cars, aircraft, and spacecraft.
The discovery could help researchers engineer exotic electrical states such as unconventional superconductivity.
“Carbon Queen” explores how the Institute Professor transformed our understanding of the physical world and made science and engineering more accessible to all.
An accidental discovery and a love of spectroscopic perturbations leads to the solution of a 90-year-old puzzle.
A new fabrication technique produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying microrobots.