Making droplets drop faster
New nanopatterned surfaces could improve the efficiency of powerplants and desalination systems.
New nanopatterned surfaces could improve the efficiency of powerplants and desalination systems.
MIT team makes progress toward goal of inexpensive grid-scale batteries that could help make intermittent renewable energy sources viable.
MIT team uncovers a reason why the hottest new material for rechargeable batteries works so well.
Website offers a way of optimizing solar cell materials and production.
A new kind of high-temperature photonic crystal could someday power everything from smartphones to spacecraft.
It’s not just the strength of the silk itself, a new study finds; the silk’s way of stretching and the structure of the whole web help it resist damage.
Materials scientist explores new possibilities in topics from molecules to rooftop solar panels.
MIT senior overcame disabilities to study materials science, hoping to pave the way for other aspiring engineers.
Exhaustive reference system and interactive toolkit could revolutionize materials research, potentially enabling new types of manufacturing.
New advance could lead to even smaller features in the constant quest for more compact, faster microchips.
New detectors developed at MIT could provide easy visual identification of toxins or pathogens.
Analogy could help engineers develop materials that make use of repeating patterns.
Researchers at MIT find a way to observe and control the way electrons spin on the surface of exotic new materials.