Nanoscience and nanotechnology

Graduate student Manu Prakash (left) and Professor Neil Gershenfeld discuss new applications for their microfluidic chips, which can carry on-chip process control information.

Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry

Work could boost capabilities of 'labs on a chip'

February 8, 2007

Postdoc Peter Rakich worked with MIT colleagues to develp a novel way to add the power and speed of light waves to traditional electronics.

MIT 'optics on a chip' may revolutionize telecom, computing

Research integrates photonic circuitry on a silicon chip

February 6, 2007

Graduate student Jianping Fu (left), Professor Jongyoon Han and postdoc Reto Schoch have created a microchip system that allows speedy separation and sorting of biomolecules.

MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip

February 5, 2007

Team develops nanoparticles to battle cancer

New particles mimic platelets

February 1, 2007

MIT Professor Franz-Josef Ulm and post-doc Georgios Constantinides have shown that the strength of concrete lies in the way its nanoparticles are organized -- like oranges stacked in a supermarket. Their findings could lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions during concrete manufacturing.

Nanoengineered concrete could cut carbon dioxide emissions

January 30, 2007

MIT graduate student Shawna Liff works with a nanocomposite material she helped develop. The material, composed of nanoparticles embedded in a rubbery polymer, mimics the strength and stretchiness qualities of spider silk.

Nanocomposite research yields strong and stretchy fibers

Lycra-like materials were inspired by spider silk

January 18, 2007

MIT creates 3D scaffold for growing stem cells

December 27, 2006

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MIT implant measures tumor growth, treatment

December 4, 2006

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

Scientific American names Angela Belcher Researcher of the Year

3 others from MIT rank in magazine's top 50

November 6, 2006

This micropump developed by MIT researchers allows high speed flows through microchannels with an input of only a few volts of electricity, making it possible to create portable "lab on a chip" devices.
The three-dimensional, alternating current electro-osmotic pump consists of interdigitated stepped gold microelectrodes on a glass substrate.

Portable 'lab on a chip' could speed blood tests

MIT micropump assures portability, efficiency, in routine or combat conditions

October 16, 2006

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MIT technique reveals inner lives of red blood cells

Work could aid research on sickle cell anemia and malaria

October 16, 2006

MIT research scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, left, and Professor Gerald Schneider bracket a monitor showing a transected liver after it has been treated with a liquid solution containing peptides. The peptides self-assemble into a gel that essentially seals over the wound. The two developed the technique with MIT colleagues and researchers at the University of Hong Kong.

MIT material stops bleeding in seconds

MIT unveils new treatment for wounds

October 10, 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

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