Nanoscience and nanotechnology

A Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon demonstrates the Lincoln Laboratory’s near-infrared fluorescence imaging (NIRF) system.

Glowing tumors light a path to cancer treatment

Mechanism developed at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital shows promising results for improved ovarian cancer detection and removal.

May 20, 2016

$An artist’s embellishment of an image of the “gain medium” used to produce terahertz frequency combs. The different colors indicate that different wavelengths of oscillating terahertz radiation travel different distances through the medium, which has a different refractive index for each of them.$

Speedy terahertz-based system could detect explosives

Spectroscopic system with chip-scale lasers cuts detection time from minutes to microseconds.

May 20, 2016

A sample of a core-shell nanoparticle made by the researchers is shown in images made using scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) and energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Color images show where the different elements are located in the particle, with the precious metals platinum (Pt) and ruthenium (Ru) concentrated in the shell, and the other constituents, tungsten (W), and tita...

New nanoparticle catalysts could reduce need for precious metals

Process from MIT provides improved reactivity with much less platinum.

May 19, 2016

C. Cem Tasan, the Thomas B. King Career Development Professor of Metallurgy in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Metals aficionado

A new faculty member in materials science and engineering is creating healable metals.

May 18, 2016

“It’s an invisible layer that can provide a barrier, provide cosmetic improvement, and potentially deliver a drug locally to the area that’s being treated. Those three things together could really make it ideal for use in humans,” Daniel Anderson says.

New material temporarily tightens skin

“Second skin” polymer could also be used to protect dry skin and deliver drugs.

May 9, 2016

MIT postdoc Cui-Zu Chang works with equipment that can monitor topological insulator thin-film quality as it grows. The bright green vertical bar on computer screen is an indicator of very high-quality film growth. Chang led work in the Moodera group showing the first zero-resistance edge state in a circuit.

Achieving zero resistance in energy flow

MIT postdoc Cui-Zu Chang makes a spintronic breakthrough in the Moodera group.

May 6, 2016

A black cartridge containing a paper-based diagnostic for detecting the Zika virus is held up by a researcher at Harvard's Wyss Institute. Areas that have turned purple indicate samples infected with Zika, while yellow areas indicate samples that are free of the virus.

A new paper-based test for the Zika virus

Inexpensive device can diagnose Zika in just a few hours.

May 6, 2016

(Top) Stimulating the growth of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) in adipose tissue transforms the tissue from fat-storing white tissue to fat-burning brown tissue. A schematic of the nanoparticle (bottom left) that MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers used to deliver angiogenesis drugs to adipose tissue. (Bottom right) The nanoparticles imaged by transmission electron microscopy.

Fat-fighting nanoparticles

New drug-delivery approach holds potential for treating obesity.

May 2, 2016

MIT Senior Research Scientist Jagadeesh Moodera stands in front of a custom-built system used to fabricate ultrathin films. His work includes devices that exhibit resistance-free, spin-polarized electrical current; enabling memory storage at the level of single molecules; and the search for the elusive Majorana fermions sought for quantum computing.

Research highlight: Jagadeesh Moodera

Step-by-step, the Moodera Research Group is building the essential knowledge and hardware for next-generation quantum computers.

April 29, 2016

MIT.nano steel structure, looking northwest

MIT.nano rising

MIT's future home for cutting-edge nanoscience and nanotechnology research gets fitted with 23 tons of steel per day.

April 20, 2016

“When you look at coal as a material, and not just as something to burn, the chemistry is extremely rich,” says Jeffrey Grossman. In this photo, a sample of pulverized coal (right) is shown with several test devices made from coal by the MIT researchers.

Making electronics out of coal

Instead of burning up this complex hydrocarbon, let’s make devices from it, says Jeffrey Grossman.

April 19, 2016

An electron microscopy image shows many examples of nanoscrolls. The insert zooms in on a single nanoscroll and reveals its conical nature.

For stronger, lighter, cheaper materials, scroll up

Researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from graphene’s imperfect form.

April 12, 2016

Researchers have found a new kind of long-range interaction between particles, in a liquid medium, that is based entirely on their motion. Alfredo Alexander-Katz describes the kind of interactions his team found as being related to the research field of active matter. Example of active systems are the flocking behavior of birds or the schooling of fish. In this illustration, moving particles in a ...

Study finds unexpected long-range particle interactions

Spinning cells could attract each other across surprisingly long distances.

April 11, 2016

Two MIT faculty win 2016 NSF CAREER Awards

James Swan and Konstantin Turitsyn are among 160 young scientists and engineers poised to explore new frontiers and inspire a future generation of scholars.

April 8, 2016

Stabilizing quantum bits

Feedback technique used on diamond “qubits” could make quantum computing more practical.

April 6, 2016

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