Materials science

In Sigma Xi lecture, Barsoum to focus on pyramids

May 7, 2008

From left, MIT freshman Daniel Sauza, sophomore Stephanie Brown and seniors Ceryen Tan and Joyce Chen (in mask) work with materials science and nuclear engineering professor Linn Hobbs to cover limestone blocks with mortar as they build up their pyramid on the sixth floor of Building 16.

Gathering 'concrete' evidence

MIT class explores controversial pyramid theory with scale model

April 2, 2008

Pedro Reis, an instructor in applied mathematics at MIT, and colleagues have reported the formulation and physics behind the pattern created by adhesive tearing. In this image, Reis demonstrates the way that adhesive tape tears in a triangular shape coming a point.

Researchers make a point of explaining 'the wallpaper problem'

March 30, 2008

A cross-section of nano-crystalline bismuth antimony telluride grains, as viewed through transmission electron microscope. Colors highlight the features of each grain of the semiconductor alloy in bulk form. A team of researchers from Boston College and MIT produced a major increase in thermoelectric efficiency after using nanotechnology to structure the material, which is commonly used in industr...

Boston College, MIT researchers achieve dramatic increase in thermoelectric efficiency

Nanotech advance heralds new era in heating, cooling and power generation

March 20, 2008

This figure shows the structure of a beta-sheet protein, Z1-Z2 telethonin complex, in the giant muscle protein titin. The inset shows the orientation of the protein backbone of three beta strands (in purple) with hydrogen bonds (yellow) holding the assembly together. Buehler and Keten found that hydrogen bonds in beta-sheet structures break in clusters of three or four, even in the presence of man...

A tangled web: CEE researchers unravel the secrets of spider silk's strength

March 19, 2008

Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler, back left on the raft, helps row a raft built by four of her students in 2004. Leslie Dewan, standing, recently worked with Hosler to show how similar rafts carried goods through the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.

Floating a big idea

MIT demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods

March 19, 2008

Angela Belcher, professor of materials science and engineering.

Shell shock

March 11, 2008

Miriam Yoffa Rich, former longtime lab technician, 88

March 5, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer and faculty member Jeffrey Karp, both affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, display an adhesive they developed that was inspired by the gecko and may have medical and surgical applications.

MIT creates gecko-inspired bandage

February 18, 2008

Suresh to receive 2008 Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science

February 11, 2008

Graduate student Christopher Bettinger and Robert Langer, Institute Professor and professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, have developed a way to make capillaries grow on a nano-patterned surface.

MIT works toward engineered blood vessels

Vessels could be used in human body

December 17, 2007

A group of MIT researchers, gathered here around naturally water-repelling lotus leaves, has developed a class of material structures that repel oil and hydrocarbons. From left are Gareth McKinley, Professor of Teaching Innovation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Robert Cohen, St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering; Anish Tuteja, postdoc in chemical engineering; and Wonjae Choi,...

MIT creates oil-repelling materials

Many applications in aviation, more

December 6, 2007

From left, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Edwin Thomas, who is also department head, Professor Patrick Doyle of chemical engineering and materials science postdoc Ji-Hyun Jang. The researchers have designed a technique to control the size, shape and texture of microparticles.

Sculpted 3-D particles could aid diagnostics, tissue engineering

December 4, 2007

Cancer study shows power of interdisciplinary approach

December 3, 2007

Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, in the spectroscopy lab at MIT.

Thermoelectric materials are one key to energy savings

Researchers jumpstart old field with new approach

November 20, 2007

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