Tag: MIT
Greener, more efficient natural gas filtration
Novel membrane material removes more impurities, without the need for toxic solvents.
Natural gas and biogas have become increasingly popular sources of energy throughout the...
MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing
Assembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable lighter, more energy-efficient aircraft designs.
A team of engineers has built and tested a radically new...
Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
The color of a material can often tell you something about how it handles heat. Think of wearing a black shirt on a sweltering...
Team finds Wigner crystal—not Mott insulator—in ‘magic-angle’ graphene
Recently, a team of scientists led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a huge stir in the field of...
First Carbon-Nanotube Mixed-Signal ICs
RRAM 3D integration and a self-healing technique remove metallic nanotubes that poison analog circuits
All the amazing carbon-nanotube logic circuits we’ve heard about over the...
Researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, which they highlight today in the journal Advanced Materials.
By...
MIT Offers 11-Week Online Course in 3D Printing
LEVERAGE THE DESIGN FREEDOM OF 3D PRINTING
Starts February 25, 2019
Enrollment Now Open!
Additive manufacturing (AM), broadly known as 3D printing, is transforming how products are...
MIT’s new 3-D printed shape-shifting soft robots crawl, jump, grab
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the strings.
The...
Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry
Spectrometers — devices that distinguish different wavelengths of light and are used to determine the chemical composition of everything from laboratory materials to distant...
Pulling drinking water out of thin air
With droughts plaguing much of the western United States and millions of people across the globe living without access to safe water, the need...
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