Carbon nanotubes under stress
Postdoc Mostafa Bedewy shows complex competition between chemical activation and mechanical forces in growing CNT forests.
Postdoc Mostafa Bedewy shows complex competition between chemical activation and mechanical forces in growing CNT forests.
Mechanical engineering professor explores the science and technology of nano manufacturing.
Technique allows tiny sensors to monitor small changes in magnetic fields, such as when neurons transmit electrical signals.
New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand.
New approach to use of 2-D carbon material opens up unexpected properties, could unleash new uses.
MIT team develops simple, inexpensive method that could help realize material’s promise for electronics, solar power, and sensors.
Synthetic polymers coating a nanoparticle surface can recognize specific molecules just like an antibody.
Carbon nanotubes that detect nitric oxide can be implanted under the skin for more than a year.
Researchers show that graphene — atom-thick sheets of carbon — could be used in photodetectors, devices that translate optical signals to electrical.
Researchers find that tiny molecules passing through nanotubes can be propelled or slowed depending on their size.
Chemical engineers find that arrays of carbon nanotubes can detect flaws in drugs and help improve production.
MIT PhD student demonstrates toughening with aligned carbon nanotubes.
Carbon nanotube deicing technologies developed at MIT could be in flight tests as early as next year.
Tomás Palacios investigates use of ‘extreme materials’ in electronics, which could reduce energy consumption and make computers far faster.
New system uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips.