Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing

Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
April 13, 2022 ~9 min

Ride-hailing without the traffic snarls?

Study suggests how much competition in the urban ride market can grow before gridlock sets in.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
March 22, 2022 ~6 min


A new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy

SMART breakthrough could help develop technologies that can identify materials according to desired properties for specific applications.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
Jan. 18, 2022 ~8 min

New 10-minute test detects Covid-19 immunity

Paper-based blood test developed by SMART researchers can rapidly determine the presence of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
Nov. 22, 2021 ~8 min

A new way to generate light using pre-existing defects in semiconductors

SMART researchers demonstrate a practical way to make indium gallium nitride LEDs with considerably higher indium concentration.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
Nov. 1, 2021 ~8 min

Researchers design sensors to rapidly detect plant hormones

SMART nanosensors are safer and less tedious than existing techniques for testing plants’ response to compounds such as herbicides.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
Sept. 13, 2021 ~7 min

A new way to detect the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant in wastewater

SMART researchers have developed an innovative method to detect and quantify the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant of concern via wastewater epidemiology.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
July 28, 2021 ~8 min

Microscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly

Researchers could rapidly obtain high-resolution images of blood vessels and neurons within the brain.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
July 7, 2021 ~6 min


Homing in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells

A new approach to identifying useful formulations could help solve the degradation issue for these promising new lightweight photovoltaics.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
March 30, 2021 ~7 min

SMART develops analytical tools to enable next-generation agriculture

Engineered plant nanosensors and portable Raman spectroscopy will help enable sustainable practices in traditional and urban agriculture.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
March 1, 2021 ~9 min

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