Creating new opportunities from nanoscale materials
MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance.
MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance.
New approach harnesses the same fabrication processes used for silicon chips, offers key advance toward next-generation computers.
Shining light through household bleach creates fluorescent quantum defects in carbon nanotubes for quantum computing and biomedical imaging.
Study finds baking soda, detergent, and table salt — all rich in sodium — are effective catalysts.
New method could be useful for building quantum sensors and computers.
Mechanical engineering researchers are inventing game-changing technologies and developing a renaissance in 3-D printing.
Experiments and analyses show how electrons and protons get together on an electrode surface.
More effective surgery could boost survival rates for ovarian cancer.
At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports.
Coating graphene with wax makes for a less contaminated surface during device manufacturing.
MIT-led team uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into plant chloroplasts.
New system of “strain engineering” can change a material’s optical, electrical, and thermal properties.
Theoretical analysis distinguishes observed “holes” from the huge list of hypothetically possible ones.
First measurement of its kind could provide stepping stone to practical quantum computing.
"Magic-angle" graphene named 2018 Breakthrough of the Year; first ionic plane and earliest evidence of hydrogen gas named to top 10 breakthroughs.