Ferroelectric-graphene-based system could lead to improved information processing
New system uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips.
New system uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips.
MIT graduate student David Cohen-Tanugi works to improve water filtration, desalination.
New technique advances carbon-fiber composites.
New experiments reveal previously unseen effects, could lead to new kinds of electronics and optical devices.
Tiny filaments and cylinders are studied for possible uses in energy, electronics, optics and other fields.
Folded DNA templates allow researchers to precisely cut out graphene shapes, which could be used in electronic circuits.
Researchers observe a basic quantum-mechanical phenomenon theorized decades ago by pioneers of atomic theory.
Magazine ranks nanoporous graphene as one of the top five surprising scientific milestones of 2012.
MIT researchers find that adding a coating of graphene has little effect on how a surface interacts with liquids — except in extreme cases.
Nanofibers have a dizzying range of possible applications, but they’ve been prohibitively expensive to make. MIT researchers hope to change that.
New membranes may filter water or separate biological samples.
New low-cost, durable carbon nanotube sensors can be etched with mechanical pencils.
MIT researchers produce complex electronic circuits from molybdenum disulfide, a material that could have many more applications.
New findings show that the material beneath the thin carbon sheets determines how they react chemically and electrically.
Graphene sheets with precisely controlled pores have potential to purify water more efficiently than existing methods.