The approach could improve the performance of many other materials as well.

Through the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, the US Department of Defense supports research projects in areas of critical importance to national defense.

Fifteen principal investigators from across MIT will conduct early work to solve issues ranging from water contamination to aquaculture monitoring and management.

A new method could provide detailed information about internal structures, voids, and cracks, based solely on data about exterior conditions.

Rob Macfarlane synthesizes new composite materials by manipulating their structure at the nanometer scale.

The teams will work toward sustainable microchips and topological materials as well as socioresilient materials design.

The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in earth sciences at Cambridge University.

Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.

MIT engineers developed organic polymers that can efficiently convert signals from biological tissue into the electronic signals used in transistors.

With a grant from the Office of Naval Research, MIT researchers aim to design novel high-performance steels, with potential applications including printed aircraft components and ship hulls.