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Deshpande Center's latest funding cycle supports goal of 'idea to impact'

Since 2002, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation has funded more than 80 projects with over $9 M in grants. The center supports a wide range of emerging technologies including biotechnology, biomedical devices, information technology, new materials, tiny tech, and energy innovations. Eighteen projects have spun out of the center as independent startups, having collectively raised over $150 million in outside financing from investors.

October 17, 2009

At left, a high-resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy image of platinum nanoparticles on a fuel cell's electrode reveals surface steps that researchers say are responsible for dramatically improving efficiency. These steps are shown in greater detail in the diagram at the right.

Fuel cells get a boost

Creating tiny steps to electrode surfaces can double the efficiency of the emissions-free electricity sources, MIT researchers find.

October 15, 2009

Snapshot of a simulation of a nanoparticle coated with a single layer of molecules (thin lines projecting from sphere) composed of a 1:1 mixture of hydrophobic (yellow) and hydrophilic (blue) ligands.

Harnessing nanopatterns

New findings show that tiny textures on a surface can produce big differences in how some materials, and even living cells, behave

September 24, 2009

Carol Livermore, associate professor of mechanical engineering, left, stands with graduate student Frances Hill in Livermore's lab.

Small springs could provide big power

Mechanical engineer Carol Livermore and colleagues find that carbon nanotubes, used as springs, have potential to compete with batteries for energy storage.

September 21, 2009

Graduate student Will Chung displays a hybrid chip being developed in Professor Tomas Palacios' lab. The machine in the background is used to combine the semiconductor materials into one chip.

Two chips in one

MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.

September 15, 2009

Researchers make carbon nanotubes without metal catalyst

Oxides, as well as metals, seem to be able to sprout carbon nanotubes, study finds

August 10, 2009

The image at top depicts a healthy collagen fibril. The image below it depicts a fibril with brittle bone disease displaying the small rifts (in orange) that form in collagen tissue at the sites where an incorrect amino acid has been substituted for glycine. These tiny rifts lead to the brittle tissue, broken bones and deformity characteristic of the disease.

Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease

August 4, 2009

Nanoparticles target ovarian cancer

New gene therapy technique could fight late-stage tumors

July 30, 2009

Professor Gang Chen with the vacuum chamber used in this research.

Breaking the law, at the nanoscale

Bringing objects close together can boost radiation heat transfer, according to new study that shows breakdown in Planck's law

July 29, 2009

A Micrograph showing the cross-section of a new optoelectronic fiber.

A fabric with vision

Researchers create flexible lensless camera from web of light-detecting fibers

July 8, 2009

Chad Mirkin

Nanotechnology expert wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

June 24, 2009

Michael Demkowicz

A new approach to engineering for extreme environments

Scientist creates model to design radiation-resistant materials

June 24, 2009

Professor Franz-Josef Ulm with the nanoindentation machine in his research lab.

MIT engineers find way to slow concrete creep to a crawl

June 15, 2009

Small materials, big potential

MIT-INL to tackle several nano-research projects

June 1, 2009

MIT Engineering and the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory launch research collaboration

May 30, 2009