Nanoscience and nanotechnology

MIT researchers are designing sensors that use carbon nanotubes, shown here in middle and at top, to detect hazardous gases.

Super-sensitive and small: New MIT detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases

June 5, 2008

The mesh of nanowires behind MIT's new material for absorbing oil and other organic pollutants, here shown at increasing magnifications (left to right).

MIT develops a 'paper towel' for oil spills

Nanowire mesh can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil

May 30, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Biosolar Cells

May 21, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Life Extension

May 21, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Electrochemical Energy

May 21, 2008

A cross-section of nano-crystalline bismuth antimony telluride grains, as viewed through transmission electron microscope. Colors highlight the features of each grain of the semiconductor alloy in bulk form. A team of researchers from Boston College and MIT produced a major increase in thermoelectric efficiency after using nanotechnology to structure the material, which is commonly used in industr...

Boston College, MIT researchers achieve dramatic increase in thermoelectric efficiency

Nanotech advance heralds new era in heating, cooling and power generation

March 20, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer and faculty member Jeffrey Karp, both affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, display an adhesive they developed that was inspired by the gecko and may have medical and surgical applications.

MIT creates gecko-inspired bandage

February 18, 2008

Fantastic voyage: Drug delivery by a nanoparticle

February 13, 2008

Suresh to receive 2008 Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science

February 11, 2008

From left, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Edwin Thomas, who is also department head, Professor Patrick Doyle of chemical engineering and materials science postdoc Ji-Hyun Jang. The researchers have designed a technique to control the size, shape and texture of microparticles.

Sculpted 3-D particles could aid diagnostics, tissue engineering

December 4, 2007

Cancer study shows power of interdisciplinary approach

December 3, 2007

Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, in the spectroscopy lab at MIT.

Thermoelectric materials are one key to energy savings

Researchers jumpstart old field with new approach

November 20, 2007

Here, dark gray nanoparticles carry different drug payloads (one red, one green). A remotely generated five-minute pulse of a low-energy electromagnetic field releases the green drug but not the red. A five-minute pulse of a higher-energy electromagnetic field releases the red drug, which had been tethered using a DNA strand twice as long as the green tether, as measured in base pairs.

Remote-control nanoparticles deliver drugs directly into tumors

November 20, 2007

Postdocs Peter Rakich, left, and Milos Popovic of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics stand in front of a monitor that shows a demonstration of the way they propose to control microchips with light.

MIT works toward 'smart' optical microchips

Light-powered micro-machines could advance telecommunications

November 1, 2007

MIT develops 'tractor beam' for manipulation of cells on silicon

Tool could manipulate tiny objects on a chip

October 31, 2007

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Boston College, MIT researchers achieve dramatic increase in thermoelectric efficiency

MIT creates gecko-inspired bandage

Fantastic voyage: Drug delivery by a nanoparticle

Suresh to receive 2008 Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science

Sculpted 3-D particles could aid diagnostics, tissue engineering

Cancer study shows power of interdisciplinary approach

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