A lifelong relationship with the Institute
Newly tenured Evelyn Wang — whose parents met at MIT — studies heat transfer in materials.
Newly tenured Evelyn Wang — whose parents met at MIT — studies heat transfer in materials.
Flexible polymer probes and magnetic nanoparticles promise breakthroughs for treating paralysis and brain disease.
Using magnetic fields, technique can detect parasite’s waste products in infected blood cells.
Graduate student Wade Hsu and colleagues confine light to a crystal surface and design a transparent display using nanoparticles.
Silvija Gradečak customizes nanoscale systems for large-scale impact in light and energy.
MIT graduate student Yichen Shen designs a photonic crystal system that lets light pass through at a specific angle.
Gang Chen’s thermoelectric devices turn waste heat into electricity for vehicles and other machines.
Nanoscale, biodegradable drug-delivery method could provide a year or more of steady doses.
Brad Olsen creates bioinspired and biofunctional materials for widely diverse applications.
Researchers develop treated surfaces that can actively control how fluids or particles move.
Finding could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.
Karnik group develops inexpensive ways to analyze blood and filter water
Scientists explain how gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells, making them useful for delivering drugs.