Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals
Flexible platform could produce enigmatic materials, lead to new studies of exotic phenomena.
Flexible platform could produce enigmatic materials, lead to new studies of exotic phenomena.
The findings, based on a single electrochemical process, could help cut emissions from the hardest-to-decarbonize industries, such as steel and cement.
By fine-tuning the spin density in some materials, researchers may be able to develop new quantum sensors or quantum simulations.
Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources.
The device detects the same molecules that cell receptors do, and may enable routine early screening for cancers and other diseases.
Work with skyrmions could have applications in future computers and more.
New repair techniques enable microscale robots to recover flight performance after suffering severe damage to the artificial muscles that power their wings.
High school students spend time at MIT building a low-cost fuel cell.
Developed at SMART, the nondestructive nanosensors could have wide applications in agricultural science.
A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.
The MIT professor discussed a new nanoengineered platform to investigate strongly correlated and topological physics.
Palacios has served as director of the 6-A MEng Thesis Program, industry officer, and professor of electrical engineering.
A technique for synthesizing many “white graphene” nanotubes at a time paves the way for stronger, heat-resistant composites, and membranes for renewable energy.
Professors Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, and Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz as well as Yuan Cao SM ’16, PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and others honored for contributions to physics.
The findings could inform the design of practical superconducting devices.