A pharmacy on the back of a cell
Drugs encapsulated in new MIT nanoparticles can hitch a ride to tumors on the surface of immune-system cells.
Explained: Bandgap
Understanding how electrons get excited is crucial to creating solar cells and light-emitting diodes
Don Sadoway on innovation in energy storage
"What I Learned in 3.091 was All I Needed to Know" from Technology Day 2010
Small-scale understanding, large-scale enhancement
Better fuel cells and reactors, built from the atomic level
Fibers that can hear and sing
MIT researchers pass a milestone on the path to sophisticated fibers that interact with their surroundings in new ways.
Explained: Phonons
When trying to control the way heat moves through solids, it is often useful to think of it as a flow of particles.
Professor Ronald Ballinger appointed to MWRA Independent Review Panel
Will investigate what caused breach in major eastern Massachusetts water line in early May
Christine Ortiz is appointed dean for graduate education
The DMSE professor says she is honored to be chosen to work with and on behalf of MIT’s graduate students.
Thin films show surprising reactivity
MIT findings of high oxygen activity in thin-film materials might someday lead to greatly increased power production from future fuel cells
Enhancing the power of batteries
MIT team finds that using carbon nanotubes in a lithium battery can dramatically improve its energy capacity.
Researchers seek to put the squeeze on cancer
Cell contractions may be key to initiating new blood-vessel growth near tumors.
MIT partners in DOE-funded Nuclear Energy Innovation Hub
One of nine involved in project announced May 28
A good many years before Goodyear
Mesoamerican people perfected details of rubber processing more than 3,000 years ago, new MIT study suggests.
Where the rubber meets the road
"Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials is Critical to Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure" with Krystyn Van Vliet
Explained: Thermoelectricity
Turning temperature differences directly into electricity could be an efficient way of harnessing heat that is wasted in cars and power plants.