What happens when materials take tiny hits
High-speed camera shows incoming particles cause damage by briefly melting surfaces as they strike.
High-speed camera shows incoming particles cause damage by briefly melting surfaces as they strike.
Materials Processing Center, Center for Materials Science and Engineering merger brings together formidable resources for advancing next-generation materials.
Summer Scholar Stephanie Bauman interns in Luqiao Liu lab synthesizing and testing manganese gallium samples for spintronic applications.
Summer Scholar Gaetana Michelet explores the role mucus plays in protecting people from getting sick.
Carbon nanotubes lower the transformation temperature of glassy carbon, possibly aiding manufacturers, MIT researchers report.
Summer Scholar Alejandro Aponte troubleshoots the design for an implantable pump that can deliver drugs to the brain.
Summer Scholars in materials science and engineering are tackling projects ranging from magnetic thin films to catalysts for energy.
MIT researchers create a high-temperature device that produces electricity from industrial waste heat.
MIT researchers team up with leaders from the metals and minerals industry to envision a more sustainable future.
Diverse group seeks MIT laboratory internship experiences in materials science, photonics, energy, and biomedical applications.
World’s most abundant polymer could rival petroleum-based plastics as source of printing feedstock.
Itamar Kimchi studies the physics underlying unusual behavior of electrons in compounds such as transition metal oxides.
MIT biophysicists apply mathematics from evolutionary biology to describe a surprising aspect of human behavior.
MIT researchers propose a new method for verifying the existence of a theoretical quasiparticle.