Tag: MIT
MIT Engineers Grow “Perfect” Atom-Thin Materials
MIT engineers grow “perfect” atom-thin materials: True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s....
MIT Moving Water and Earth
A new understanding of how particle shape controls grain flow could help engineers manage river restoration and coastal erosion.
MIT Moving Water and Earth: As...
Here Is why Roman Concrete is so Strong
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
Here Is why Roman Concrete is so Strong: The...
Building Better Batteries, Faster
PhD student Pablo Leon uses machine learning to expedite research on novel battery materials, while helping newer students navigate graduate school.
Rachel Yang | MIT News correspondent
Building...
Living LEGOs
Mathematical modeling speeds up the process of programming bacterial systems to self-assemble into desired 2D shapes.
Sandi Miller | Department of Mathematics
Living LEGOs: LEGO blocks can be...
A New Method Boosts Wind Farms’ Energy Output
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
By modeling the conditions of an entire wind farm rather than individual turbines, engineers can squeeze more power out of...
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...
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 Lightweight Material is Stronger than Steel
The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions.
Using a novel polymerization process, MIT...
