Nanoscience and nanotechnology

Fighting a giant foe at a tiny scale

Professor Paula Hammond uses nanoscale biomaterials to craft anti-cancer treatments tiny enough to get through the bloodstream and enter tumors.

November 7, 2017

Touring the MIT.nano site are (l-r) Jesús del Alamo, director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories; Vladimir Bulović, associate dean for innovation and director of MIT.nano; José Antonio Fernández Carbajal, chariman of Monterrey Tec; and Marco Munoz, senior director of MIT’s Office of Philanthropic Partnerships.

Tech and Tec: Nanoscale international engagement

Monterrey Tec Chairman José Antonio Fernández Carbajal tours MIT.nano during his first meeting as the newest member of the MIT Corporation.

November 2, 2017

A 3-D-printed manufacturing device can extrude fibers that are only 75 nanometers in diameter, or one-thousandth the width of a human hair.

3-D-printed device builds better nanofibers

Printed nozzle system could make uniform, versatile fibers at much lower cost.

October 30, 2017

Researchers have designed a light-emitter and detector that can be integrated into silicon CMOS chips. This illustration shows a molybdenum ditelluride light source for silicon photonics.

Material could bring optical communication onto silicon chips

Ultrathin films of a semiconductor that emits and detects light can be stacked on top of silicon wafers.

October 23, 2017

A new paper describes the importance of doing detailed economic analysis and having in-depth conversations with people using the technology that a research project is focused on.

Why researchers should step out of the lab

Project reveals benefits of communicating with industry when conducting research.

October 4, 2017

Fast-moving magnetic particles could enable new form of data storage

Recently discovered phenomenon could provide a way to bypass the limits to Moore’s Law.

October 2, 2017

$“If we want to be able to deliver mRNA, then we need a mechanism to be more effective at it because everything that’s been used so far gives you a very small fraction of what would be the optimal efficiency,” says professor Paula Hammond.$

Bio-inspired approach to RNA delivery

New technique could make it easier to use mRNA to treat disease or deliver vaccines.

September 19, 2017

In this image, light strikes a molecular lattice deposited on a metal substrate. The molecules can quickly exchange energy with the metal below, a mechanism that leads to a much faster response time for the emission of fluorescent light from the lattice.

A new approach to ultrafast light pulses

Unusual fluorescent materials could be used for rapid light-based communications systems.

September 18, 2017

Researchers from the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, the University of New Brunswick, and Oregon State University visited the Mactaquac Dam in New Brunswick, Canada, in August.

Investigating a big dam concrete problem

Researchers working to address concrete durability get a close look at the impacts of a chemical reaction known to cause structural problems.

September 13, 2017

Professor Evelyn Wang, the director of MIT’s Device Research Laboratory, has been appointed associate head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Evelyn Wang joins leadership team in MechE

Mechanical engineering alumna and internationally recognized professor is the new associate head of the department.

September 6, 2017

$Research by MIT graduate student Ashley Kaiser (left) and postdoc Itai Stein shows that a small fraction of carbon nanotubes added to phenol-formaldehyde resin lowers the processing temperature needed to achieve the best combination of hardness and low density by 200 degrees Celsius.$

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