Making nanoparticle building blocks for new materials
Associate Professor Robert Macfarlane is uncovering design principles that allow researchers to fine-tune materials at many size scales.
Associate Professor Robert Macfarlane is uncovering design principles that allow researchers to fine-tune materials at many size scales.
Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.
A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.
Using bottlebrush-shaped particles, researchers can identify and deliver synergistic combinations of cancer drugs.
Their technique could allow chip manufacturers to produce next-generation transistors based on materials other than silicon.
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
A new method can produce a hundredfold increase in light emissions from a type of electron-photon coupling, which is key to electron microscopes and other technologies.
The MIT professor discussed a new nanoengineered platform to investigate strongly correlated and topological physics.
Luqiao Liu utilizes a quantum property known as electron spin to build low-power, high-performance computer memories and programmable computer chips.
Students compete to design a compression-resistant nanoscale material — and win possibly the world’s smallest trophy.
Palacios has served as director of the 6-A MEng Thesis Program, industry officer, and professor of electrical engineering.
Researchers develop a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, lightweight solar cells that can be seamlessly added to any surface.
MIT-trained electrical engineer Jorg Scholvin guides researchers fabricating new technology at MIT.nano.
A new technique that accurately measures how atom-thin materials expand when heated could help engineers develop faster, more powerful electronic devices.
With new techniques in electron microscopy, James LeBeau explores the nanoscale landscape within materials to understand their properties.