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“Nanostitches” enable lighter and tougher composite materials

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How light can vaporize water without the need for heat

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Pushing material boundaries for better electronics

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Master bladesmith Bob Kramer’s lessons from the school of life

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Team discovers fundamentally new way to detect radiation involving cheap ceramics

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MIT students win national materials design competition

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

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Device could jumpstart work toward quantum internet

Professor Vladimir Bulovic
Celebrating five years of MIT.nano

Professor Yet-Ming Chiang
Chiang named to Time 100 Climate list

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Team engineers nanoparticles using ion irradiation to advance clean energy and fuel conversion

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Teaching students about photonics to build up the US workforce

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Elsa Olivetti appointed associate dean of engineering

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Canceling noise to improve quantum devices

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Smart pill could be game changer in diagnosis, treatment of bowel diseases

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New sensor mimics cell membrane functions

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New quantum magnet unleashes electronics potential

Artist's rendition of a computer system based on light that could jumpstart the power of machine-learning programs like ChatGPT. Blue sections represent the micron-scale lasers key to the technology.
Computer system based on light could jumpstart power of ChatGPT-type machine-learning programs

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Panel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future

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Embracing life’s surprises

The flat tips of two diamonds compress an atomically thin material.
International Team Reports Powerful Tool for Studying, Tuning Atomically Thin Materials

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Study reveals new ways for exotic quasiparticles to “relax”

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Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices

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Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications

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Scientists use computational modeling to design “ultrastable” materials

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Even as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture

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New additives could turn concrete into an effective carbon sink

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

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Teachers make Frankensteel during Materials Camp at MIT

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Large MIT team works toward new computationally designed cybersteels

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Bilge Yildiz wins Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science

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Seven from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2022

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Molecules found in mucus could prevent cholera infection

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Engineers develop a new kind of shape-memory material

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Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble

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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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Lecture series aims to demystify, celebrate tenure

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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

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3 Questions: Janelle Knox-Hayes on producing renewable energy that communities want

Professor Don Sadoway
Donald Sadoway reflects on teaching, batteries, and world peace

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

Team from Form Energy
Materials science professor gives insights on founding successful start-ups

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How “2D” materials expand

James LeBeau
Inspiration at the atomic scale

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Engineers solve a mystery on the path to smaller, lighter batteries

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The tenured engineers of 2022

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Simplifying the production of lithium-ion batteries