Materials science

CMSE wins six-year, $19.2m NSF grant

September 23, 2008

Team Heliotrope demonstrates its sun-tracking technology that won first prize in an MIT competition aimed at developing innovative energy technologies. At left is team member George Whitfield, a graduate student in materials science. His teammate and fellow grad student Vyom Sharma is at right. The third member, Forrest Liau, is not shown. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('madmec-4-enlarged.html','','w...

Sun-tracking device wins student prize

Window coatings, wind generators and power unit also win

September 19, 2008

Rudie Berkhout's "Delta II" is among the works of art that make up the MIT Museum's second annual winter holography exhibition.

MITEI awards second round of seed grants

September 18, 2008

Portable Light textiles charge in the sun in a Huichol village in the Tateikie region of the Sierra Madre, Mexico. A Huichol man in the Sierra Madre uses a Portable Light textile to charge his cell phone and place a call to check market prices.

Kennedy's Portable Light wins Tech Award

September 9, 2008

Chiang challenges freshmen to follow their passions

August 26, 2008

Andy Wijaya, an MIT graduate student in chemical engineering, prepares a gold nanorod solution for pump-probe spectroscopy with (standing, left to right) postdoc Aaron Schmidt and professors Gang Chen and Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli observing.

Beyond jewelry: Engineering new uses for gold

MIT researchers see precious metal's value in war on cancer, other applications

August 22, 2008

From left, MIT professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond. The three have authored a paper detailing their virus-based method of creating and installing microbatteries by stamping them onto a variety of surfaces.

MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries

Microbatteries could power tomorrow's miniature devices

August 20, 2008

Polypterus senegalus is a primitive fish whose scaly armor has yielded clues to MIT researchers seeking to better protect soldiers of the future.

Protection built to scale--fish scale, that is

Primitive 'dinosaur eel' could inspire future body armor

July 27, 2008

MIT researchers have created 'striped' nanoparticles capable of entering a cell without rupturing it. In the background of thisÂ cartoon are cells that have taken up nanoparticles carrying fluorescent imaging agents

Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery

June 9, 2008

Getting wrapped up in solar textiles

MIT lecturer focuses on flexible photovoltaic materials

June 9, 2008

Department of Materials Science and Engineering awards

June 4, 2008

Professor Cynthia Barnhart (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Engineering) presents Orian Z. Welling, a student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with the 2008 Henry Ford Award.

School of Engineering awards

June 4, 2008

The mesh of nanowires behind MIT's new material for absorbing oil and other organic pollutants, here shown at increasing magnifications (left to right).

MIT develops a 'paper towel' for oil spills

Nanowire mesh can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil

May 30, 2008

MIT researchers survey the evidence of their success in figuring out how to make surface coatings that bacteria won't stick to. From left, assistant professor of material science and engineering Krystyn Van Vliet, director of the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering Michael Rubner; and materials science and engineering graduate student Jenny Lichter and senior Maricela Delgadillo.

Finding yields creation of bacteria-resistant films

May 16, 2008

The new, thin material developed by MIT engineers for use in methanol fuel cells.

MIT creates new material for fuel cells

Increases power output by more than 50 percent