Tag: MIT
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...
Engineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
A staple on any engineer’s workbench, duct tape is a quick and dependable fix for cracks and tears in many structural materials. MIT engineers...
AI to Help Scale up Advanced Solar Cell Manufacturing
Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help.
David...
A New Heat Engine with no Moving Parts is as Efficient...
The design could someday enable a fully decarbonized power grid, researchers say.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)...
New synthesis method yields degradable polymers
Materials could be useful for delivering drugs or imaging agents in the body; may offer alternative to some industrial plastics.
MIT chemists have devised a...
Study opens route to ultra-low-power microchips
A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power...
A new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
“Omniphobic” might sound like a way to describe someone who is afraid of everything, but it actually refers to a special type of surface...
A transistor that performs as both topological insulator and superconductor
MIT researchers have demonstrated that a tungsten ditelluride-based transistor combines two different electronic states of matter.
A transistor based on the 2-D material tungsten ditelluride...