Materials science

From left, research scientists Ming Dao and Kuangshin Tai, Ph.D, Professor Christine Ortiz, and Professor Subra Suresh with equipment they used to investigate bone structure.

MIT researchers probe bones' tiny building blocks

Team's results could lead to new composites that mimic bones' capacity to 'fail gracefully'

May 24, 2007

Materials science contest starts

May 16, 2007

Suresh awarded 2007 European Materials Medal

May 16, 2007

Pulse Car on display

May 2, 2007

A Cambridge biotechnology company plans to market absorbable, super strong sutures produced using a recombinant DNA technique developed at MIT.

Natural polyester makes new sutures stronger, safer

March 22, 2007

Two from MIT win Franklin Institute Awards

March 15, 2007

An experimental in vitro demonstration of the "fluidization" of a healthy human red blood cell through a microfliuidic channel at room temperature. The series of images shows how the shape of a red blood cell changes as it is squeezed through a 4 micron by 4 micron channel.

MIT shows how blood cells change shape

Work could aid understanding of malaria, other blood disorders

March 12, 2007

This three-dimensional atomic simulation shows the absorption of a line defect by an existing twin boundary in nano-twinned copper.

MIT model simulates atomic processes in nanomaterials

March 1, 2007

Postdocs' series explores hype and hope of a hydrogen economy

February 7, 2007

Graduate student Jianping Fu (left), Professor Jongyoon Han and postdoc Reto Schoch have created a microchip system that allows speedy separation and sorting of biomolecules.

MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip

February 5, 2007

MIT Professor Franz-Josef Ulm and post-doc Georgios Constantinides have shown that the strength of concrete lies in the way its nanoparticles are organized -- like oranges stacked in a supermarket. Their findings could lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions during concrete manufacturing.

Nanoengineered concrete could cut carbon dioxide emissions

January 30, 2007

Walter Backofen, pioneer of superplasticity, dies at 80

January 30, 2007

Wrinkled hard skin on polymer surface induced by focused ion beam. The wrinkles are hierarchical with the primary wavelength of 465 nm.

Scientists create wrinkled polymer 'skin'

January 25, 2007

MIT graduate student Shawna Liff works with a nanocomposite material she helped develop. The material, composed of nanoparticles embedded in a rubbery polymer, mimics the strength and stretchiness qualities of spider silk.

Nanocomposite research yields strong and stretchy fibers

Lycra-like materials were inspired by spider silk

January 18, 2007

MIT creates 3D scaffold for growing stem cells

December 27, 2006

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