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Cem Tasan
Cem Tasan to lead the Materials Research Laboratory

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MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material

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Scientists develop an affordable sensor for lead contamination

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Turning up the heat on next-generation semiconductors

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Pushing material boundaries for better electronics

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New MIT.nano equipment to accelerate innovation in “tough tech” sectors

Professor Vladimir Bulovic
Celebrating five years of MIT.nano

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MIT physicists turn pencil lead into “gold”

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New sensor mimics cell membrane functions

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New quantum magnet unleashes electronics potential

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Embracing life’s surprises

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Fiber “barcodes” can make clothing labels that last

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Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”

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Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in “magic-angle” graphene

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Engineers develop a new kind of shape-memory material

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In nanotube science, is boron nitride the new carbon?

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MIT engineers grow “perfect” atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero delivers 2022 Dresselhaus Lecture on the magic of moiré quantum matter

Tomas Palacios
Tomás Palacios named new director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories

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Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source

SMART Innovation Center
SMART Innovation Center awarded five-year NRF grant for new deep tech ventures

die bonder machine
Desktop simulation of MIT.nano die bonder enables virtual tool training

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How “2D” materials expand

James LeBeau
Inspiration at the atomic scale

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New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy