Mechanical engineering

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

MIT Professor Tom Peacock in lab where his group performed experiments on a new approach to unsteady flow separation.

MIT solves 100-year-old engineering problem

Insights on fluid flow could impact fuel efficiency, more

September 24, 2008

CMSE wins six-year, $19.2m NSF grant

September 23, 2008

Ray Magliozzi, right, of NPR's 'Car Talk,' listens to MIT students and staff on Sept. 19. Magliozzi and his brother, Tom, who are alumni of MIT, toured the campus to see up-and-coming energy technologies being developed at the school. From left are sophomores Mike Roberts and Rachel Roberts of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team, and MIT staff member Brenda Richard.

Click and Clack glimpse cars of the future

NPR's Magliozzi brothers in 'chock-full' tour of MIT

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

MIT quantum insights could lead to better detectors

Improved efficiency could enable research, military and medical uses

September 11, 2008

Nominations open for Doherty Professorship

September 10, 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

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MIT recommends steps to slash gasoline use by 2035

Feasible, but technology alone won't solve problem

August 5, 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 graduate students are working on a thermoelectric system that could make MIT's cogeneration plant even more efficient.

MIT students seek to harness waste heat

Device could make MIT's cogeneration plant even more efficient

July 24, 2008

MIT nanoruler lithography tool with a 300 mm-diameter silicon wafer.

MIT reports finer lines for microchips

Advance could lead to next-generation computer chips, solar cells, more.

July 8, 2008

The strength of actin binding protein interactions cross-linking a surface bound and bead tethered actin filament are probed using force from an optical trap. Filamin in green which forms networks of actin filaments shown as a confocal image on the right and alpha-actinin in blue which bundles actin filaments, shown as an image on the left, were probed using this assay configuration.

Using a light touch to measure protein bonds

MIT researchers tug at molecules with optical tweezers

June 30, 2008

Matt Ritter, Doug Wood, Spencer Ahrens and Micah Sze mount one of the 10-inch by 12-foot mirror panels in place.

MIT prototype solar dish passes first tests

Low-cost system could revolutionize global energy production

June 18, 2008