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MIT implant measures tumor growth, treatment

December 4, 2006

Professors Alexander Klibanov, left, Jianzhu Chen and MIT researcher Jayanta Haldar discuss the 'antimicrobial paint' they have developed.

MIT's anti-microbial 'paint' kills flu, bacteria

Coating's polymers poke holes in the membranes that surround influenza viruses

November 30, 2006

The series above illustrates the triple shape effect of a fastener consisting of a plate with two anchors prepared from CL(50)EG: Starting at 20 degrees Celsius, the device, in an easily-handled form, is put into a scaffold, right, which might be difficult to access (a). Increasing the temperature to 40Â C triggers unfolding and positioning into the cavity, left (figures b to d). Increasing the ...

Agile new plastics change shape with heat

Materials could aid medical and industrial processes

November 20, 2006

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

Scientific American names Angela Belcher Researcher of the Year

3 others from MIT rank in magazine's top 50

November 6, 2006

MIT graduate student Trevor Shen Kuan Ng demonstrates the stretchy properties of wheat flour dough.

Student makes dough -- in the lab

September 26, 2006

MIT researchers have discovered that certain molecules can attach themselves to metallic carbon nanotubes without interfering with the nanotubes' exceptional ability to conduct electricity. At left, the high conductance state has two molecular orbitals, shown in green. Some molecules even let the nanotube switch between highly conductive, left, and poorly conductive (right, with one red molecular ...

MIT materials scientists tame tricky carbon nanotubes

September 15, 2006

A droplet of iron held by a magnet. The iron was produced by an MIT team using molten oxide electrolysis, which generates no carbon dioxide gases -- only oxygen.

Engineers forge greener path to iron production

August 25, 2006

Peter Houk, technical instructor and glass artist in the MIT Glass Lab, shapes a piece that will model color for students of the lab.

Glass Lab is a hot spot for cool designs

August 18, 2006

Colleagues honor Langer for 30 years of innovation

July 20, 2006

Professor Gerbrand Ceder holds up a model of a perovskite crystal. Ceder and his team of researchers have used data about such crystals to come up with a method for predicting the structure of materials.

Sales method pays off for materials scientists

Data mining used to predict crystal structures

July 19, 2006

A sphere-shaped web of photo-detecting fibers developed by MIT scientists can sense the optical properties of the entire volume of space around it, as well as detect the source of incoming light.

MIT scientists create fiber webs that see

July 6, 2006

Nanotechnology 'fertile' for energy breakthrough

June 30, 2006

Professors Robert Cohen and Michael Rubner pose in Rubner's lab with equipment they use to try to mimic the watermaking abilities of the Namib Desert beetle.

Beetle spawns new material

June 14, 2006

'Pioneering' work earns Suresh honor

June 7, 2006

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