Nanoscience and nanotechnology

Sensing calcium as it flows into neurons following firing can potentially track information flow throughout the brain's circuitry. Now, an MIT team has developed a calcium contrast agent for non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging detection. At top, a schematic shows how nanoparticles coated with two proteins (red and green) form mixed aggregates in the presence of calcium. The bottom panel shows ...

Nanoparticles to aid brain imaging, team reports

September 27, 2006

Peter Poulin, left, a former graduate student in the lab of Professor Keith Nelson, right, helps to set up a laser to observe light-induced changes in materials.

MIT laser method unveils ultrafast photochemical reactions

September 27, 2006

MIT researchers working on the next generation of nuclear technology test-fit a prototype fuel capsule using the manipulators of a hot box at MIT's Research Reactor.

Innovative projects aim to boost safety, efficiency of nuclear power

September 20, 2006

MIT researchers have discovered that certain molecules can attach themselves to metallic carbon nanotubes without interfering with the nanotubes' exceptional ability to conduct electricity. At left, the high conductance state has two molecular orbitals, shown in green. Some molecules even let the nanotube switch between highly conductive, left, and poorly conductive (right, with one red molecular ...

MIT materials scientists tame tricky carbon nanotubes

September 15, 2006

This scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image shows MIT's new nanoscale molecular sieve, which consists of thousands of alternating deep (300 nanometers or billionths of a meter) and shallow (55 nanometers) regions. The deep and shallow regions act together to form energy barriers that separate proteins by size. Pores of different sizes can be engineered for different filters to capture specific p...

MIT's molecular sieve advances protein research

September 11, 2006

Sloan Kulper (S.B. 2003) and Audrey Roy (S.B. 2005) have designed a building in the shape of a cell for the Institute for Nanobiomedical Technology and Membrane Biology in Chengdu, China. This illustration shows the exterior in daytime. Protrusions in the facade provide meeting areas attached directly to interior laboratories.

Three at MIT conceive cell-shaped building

Novel architecture planned for institute in China

July 28, 2006

Nanotechnology 'fertile' for energy breakthrough

June 30, 2006

Senior research scientist Jagadeesh Moodera, left, points to the molecular beam epitaxy setup he uses in his research. With him are Tiffany Santos, graduate student in materials science and engineering, and postdoctoral associate John Philip.

New material puts its own spin on electronics

May 24, 2006

From left, Todd Harris, graduate student in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST), Sangeeta Bhatia, professor in HST, and Geoffrey von Maltzahn, graduate student in HST, view two solutions of enzyme-activated nanoparticles. The enzymes cause the nanoparticles to self-assemble into large aggregates that fall out of solution.

MIT nanoparticles may help detect, treat tumors

May 1, 2006

Cancer research funding called key

NCI head gives talk

April 25, 2006

Nanoscience rising up to meet energy challenge, Dresselhaus says

April 11, 2006

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, seated, joins Dr. Omid C. Farokhzad and researcher Benjamin A. Teply beside a monitor displaying an image of nanoparticles on Friday, March 31. The three are among a team of researchers that showed nanoparticles could be custom designed to destroy cancer cells.

Nanoparticles armed to combat cancer

April 10, 2006

From left, Professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond display a virus-loaded film that can serve as the anode of a battery.

Researchers build tiny batteries with viruses

April 7, 2006

MIT Assistant Professor Karl Berggren of electrical engineering and computer science works on nanowires in the lab.

MIT light detector may speed up interplanetary communications

March 20, 2006

Research scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, left, and Professor Gerald E. Schneider, both of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, worked with others to create a technique that helps rodents recover from traumatic brain injuries. The monitor shows a microscopic view of the brain repair.

MIT researchers restore vision in rodents blinded by brain damage

March 13, 2006

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