Materials science

Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, in the spectroscopy lab at MIT.

Thermoelectric materials are one key to energy savings

Researchers jumpstart old field with new approach

November 20, 2007

Postdocs Peter Rakich, left, and Milos Popovic of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics stand in front of a monitor that shows a demonstration of the way they propose to control microchips with light.

MIT works toward 'smart' optical microchips

Light-powered micro-machines could advance telecommunications

November 1, 2007

MIT develops 'tractor beam' for manipulation of cells on silicon

Tool could manipulate tiny objects on a chip

October 31, 2007

Professor Harry Tuller, left, leads a team that has found a way to print useful devices, like gas sensors, from inkjet printers. At far right is Woochul Jung, graduate student in material sciences and engineering, and at center is Amy Leung, a sophomore in chemical engineering; between them is the printing device.

MIT's 'electronic nose' could detect hazards

October 30, 2007

MIT gel changes color on demand

Material could lead to fast, inexpensive sensors

October 21, 2007

Walter Shepherd Owen, professor emeritus, 87

October 13, 2007

Dazzling colors reflect from Sol LeWitt's 'Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT), 2006' onto both the new Building 6C and Building 8, as seen from Building 4.

Green Center for Physics dedication set for Oct. 5

Event also celebrates completion of PDSI building project

October 3, 2007

Sophomore Xavier Gonzalez, right, shows his team's poster to judge Cora Leibig, an MIT alum who works at Dow Chemical. Gonzalez' team, Biogas Nicaragua, finished second in the MADMEC contest, held Sept. 25, 2007. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('madmec-1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Students shape materials for their own devices

September 27, 2007

An MIT team has created polymer-DNA nanoparticles to deliver disease-fighting genes . From left are Daniel Anderson, a research associate at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, bioengineering graduate student Jordan Green and Greg Zugates, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering.

MIT works toward safer gene therapy

Biodegradable polymers replace viruses to deliver genes

September 7, 2007

MIT Professor Markus Buehler has helped reveal why bones are so tough. The object on the screen is a triple helical tropocollagen molecule, a fundamental building block of bone. Next to the molecule are nanosized hydroxyapatite chalk-like crystals. In his work he simulates the behavior of the composite of tropocollagen and hydroxyapatite during deformation.

MIT probes secret of bone's strength

September 6, 2007

The Chevrolet Volt concept car was unveiled by GM in January. A company with MIT roots will develop battery cells to meet the specific requirements of the car.

GM plugs in to battery technology with MIT roots

August 10, 2007

Suresh is new dean of engineering

June 14, 2007

Graduate student and lead author Sunyoung Lee and Professor Krystyn Van Vliet in the lab with images of cell surfaces on the monitor behind them.

Force, not light, gives researchers images of cell receptors

Technique could assist in the design and testing of new drug molecules

June 13, 2007

Left to right: Gerardo Lao, grad student in material science, Emmanuel Sin, mechanical engineering senior, Ryan King, mechanical engineering sophomore, Jeremy Kuempel, freshman in mechanical engineering, Craig Wildman, graduate student in mechanical engineering team around the porsche in Sloan Automotive Lab. They are installing batteries in the front trunk compartment of the vehicle.

Students take Porsche to electric avenue

June 5, 2007

MLK materials scientist developed solder's 'holy grail'

May 29, 2007

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