Making Hydropower Plants More Sustainable
Natel Energy, founded by sibling MIT alumni, is deploying hydropower systems with fish-safe turbines and other features that mimic natural river conditions.
Zach Winn | MIT News...
Storing Medical Information Below the Skin’s Surface
Specialized invisible dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history to save lives in regions where paper or digital...
Smart Clothes Go Green: The Next Revolution in Textile Electronics
What if you could monitor your heartbeat or detect the intensity of physical exercise by measuring your sweat using nothing but your t-shirt? While...
Hidden Distortions Trigger Promising Thermoelectric Property
UPTON, NY—In a world of materials that normally expand upon heating, one that shrinks along one 3D axis while expanding along another stands out....
Army Developed Multi-Filament Polymer for 3D Printing in the Field
The Army Research Lab at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland developed a new type of multi-polymer filament for desktop 3-D printers, saving money and facilitating fast...
New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics.
The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its...
Controlling how “odd couple” Surfaces and Liquids Interact
Spread out or bead up? A new process enables control over liquid-solid interfaces even with the most unlikely pairs of materials.
David Chandler | MIT News Office
The...
New Ultrathin Film can Autonomously Switch from Dark to Light
Researchers from KAIST created an optical film technology that allows smart windows to autonomously switch between being transparent and opaque in response to light...
Uncovering the Secret of Ternary Polymer Solar Cell Success
A University of Tsukuba and Hiroshima University team takes a close look at a ternary polymer solar cell in operation to see why the...
Self-Templating, Solvent-Free Supramolecular Polymer Synthesis
A polymer that catalyzes its own formation in an environmentally friendly solvent-free process has been developed by an all-RIKEN team of chemists. The discovery...
