Materials science

MIT spinoff gets Detroit contract

Chrysler selects A123Systems batteries for new line of electric and hybrid cars

April 8, 2009

Angela Belcher holds a display of the virus-built battery she helped engineer. The battery --Â the silver-colored disc --Â is being used to power an LED.

New virus-built battery could power cars, electronic devices

April 2, 2009

Manufacturing inefficiency

Study sees 'alarming' use of energy, materials in newer manufacturing processes

March 17, 2009

Re-engineered battery material could lead to rapid recharging of many devices

Beltway for electrical energy solves long-standing problem

March 11, 2009

Physicists discover surprising variation in superconductors

Work may lead to understanding of new class of materials

January 27, 2009

Solving the mysteries of metallic glass

New understanding could lead to significant new materials

December 18, 2008

Mechanical Engineering Professor Tonio Buonassisi holds model illustrating problems with solar cells he is working on (in blue).

Finding better materials for solar cells

New research could lead to cheaper cells with vast potential

December 10, 2008

Cima named faculty director of Lemelson-MIT Program

Succeeding Flemings as of Jan. 1, 2009

December 5, 2008

Department of Materials Science Associate Professor Christine Ortiz in the cockpit of an Air Force KC-135 Jet during landing on a Defense Science Study Group trip.

Ortiz named National Security Science and Engineering Fellow

November 26, 2008

Research Lab of Electronics post-doc Peter Bermel.

Boosting the power of solar cells

New research could lead to higher output, lower cost

November 26, 2008

Kinesin, a small motor protein found in cells, walks stepwise onÂ microtubules to perform cellular processes. In each step, a powerÂ stroke is generated when two mechanical elements (neck linker, in red, and cover strand, in blue) form a beta-sheet that folds to drive the protein forward.

Baby steps

Engineers show how tiny cell proteins generate force to 'walk'

November 24, 2008

A new class of catalysts

November 16, 2008

MIT researchers have developed a technique to attach tiny polymer "backpacks" to cells. This immune system cells, a B lymphocyte sports one. The scale bar is 10 micrometers.

Tiny backpacks for cells

Polymer patches could ferry drugs, assist in cancer diagnosis

November 6, 2008

Two faculty among Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10'

October 14, 2008

Left image highlights two platinum-cobalt catalyst nanoparticles (inside the dashed boxes) with a 'sandwich' structure of platinum and cobalt atoms near the surface. At right is a cross-sectional model corresponding to the lower particle, showing platinum atoms enriched in the outermost layer, cobalt enriched in the second, and additional layers containing a mixture of the two. (Image at left take...

Team takes first atomic-scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles

Work could lead to better catalysts for eco-friendly energy storage devices

October 2, 2008

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