Nanoscience and nanotechnology

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

Koch grant puts nanotechnology on front line of prostate cancer battle

October 17, 2007

Professors disagree with article

September 19, 2007

An MIT team has created polymer-DNA nanoparticles to deliver disease-fighting genes . From left are Daniel Anderson, a research associate at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, bioengineering graduate student Jordan Green and Greg Zugates, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering.

MIT works toward safer gene therapy

Biodegradable polymers replace viruses to deliver genes

September 7, 2007

Not so super-cool after all: MIT researchers knock down theory about nanofluids

August 29, 2007

Wireless power transfer over two-meter distance, from the coil on the left to the coil on the right, where it powers a 60W light bulb. Members of the team that performed the experiment are obstructing the direct line of sight between the coils; front row: Peter Fisher (left) and Robert Moffatt; second row: Marin Soljacic; third row: Andre Kurs (left), John Joannopoulos and Aristeidis Karalis.

Goodbye wires!

MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords

June 7, 2007

Gang Chen, professor of mechanical engineering, studies how nanotechnology might expand the role thermoelectricity plays in energy efficiency.

Nanotech gives thermoelectricity a new glow

May 9, 2007

Postdoctoral associate Michel Godin, left, Associate Professor Scott
Manalis of biological engineering and postdoctoral associate Thomas Burg are part of an MIT team that has developed a technique to measure the mass of single cells.

New MIT technique weighs single living cells

One promising application is creation of a cheap and robust device to monitor CD4 cell numbers in AIDS patients

April 25, 2007

$Atomistic simulation provides unparalleled insight into fracture processes. Under the weight of an applied load, a crack in a silicon crystal (above, left) propagates until the crystal is cleaved.$

Think small! Think quickly! Atomistic model helps students visualize nanoscale problems

Software designed for genetics shows how materials behave under extreme loading

April 2, 2007

This three-dimensional atomic simulation shows the absorption of a line defect by an existing twin boundary in nano-twinned copper.

MIT model simulates atomic processes in nanomaterials

March 1, 2007

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

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