Nanoscience and nanotechnology

GEM4 Director Subra Suresh, Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol of Thailand and MIT President Susan Hockfield pose together at the Oct. 12 launch of the Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine at MIT.

GEM4 shines in launch event

October 13, 2005

New initiative to address global medical challenges launched at MIT

October 12, 2005

MIT chosen for national role fighting cancer

October 4, 2005

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Nature gives a lesson in armor design

September 20, 2005

Image shows two glass slides on top of a photo of a lotus flower. Both slides were placed in a freezer then brought out into humid air before being positioned over the photo. Slide #1 is coated with MIT's anti-fogging coating, Slide #2 is not.

MIT research could clear up foggy problem

September 8, 2005

Chemotherapy-loaded nanoparticles, left, form the core of the nanocell, right, as seen under the electron microscope. The outer lighter layer of the nanocell stores the drug that cuts blood supply after the nanocell has entered the tumor.

MIT engineers an anti-cancer smart bomb

July 27, 2005

These DNA dots, each only about 200 nanometers in diameter, were printed using a new 'nano-printing' technique developed at MIT.

New technique may speed DNA analysis

May 18, 2005

Owen Fogarty (center), a member of a West Point team competing in the Soldier Design Competition, demonstrates his team's hands-free, casualty-carriage system for Lt. Col. Shawn Reinwald of the U.S. Marine Corps, who judged the competition. Team members Jamie Pittman (wearing the device) and Venkat Motupalli look on.

Battery scavenger system wins MIT Soldier Design Competition

March 8, 2005

Belcher is a 'woman to watch'

February 23, 2005

Tiny technology carries big promise

January 21, 2005

Magnet Lab and Korean institute collaborate on spintronics

November 23, 2004

Shuguang Zhang (left), associate director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, holds a spinach solution, the active component in a completed solar cell. Recent graduate Patrick Kiley, holding a completed chip, and Professor Marc Baldo of electrical engineering and computer sciences complete the team.

Green, leafy spinach may soon power more than Popeye's biceps

September 15, 2004

Prior to evening patrol in Iraq, AH-64 Apache pilots don survival gear after being instrumented.

The things they carry

August 19, 2004

Deshpande Center announces biotech startup and nanotech licensing deals

April 14, 2004

MIT's Nanoruler was used to create parallel lines and spaces only 400 billionths of a meter apart (the diameter of a human hair is about 250 times larger) across this silicon wafer. The wafer is 12 inches in diameter.

MIT's Nanoruler could impact space physics, more

February 2, 2004

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