Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics

Next-generation devices made with new “peel and stack” method may include electronic chips worn on the skin.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 5, 2020 ~8 min

Creating new opportunities from nanoscale materials

MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance.

Denis Paiste | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
Sept. 5, 2019 ~17 min


Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam

New method could be useful for building quantum sensors and computers.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
May 17, 2019 ~9 min

Thermodynamic insights could lead to better catalysts

Experiments and analyses show how electrons and protons get together on an electrode surface.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
May 2, 2019 ~8 min

Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead

At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
March 14, 2019 ~8 min

Smoothing out the wrinkles in graphene

Coating graphene with wax makes for a less contaminated surface during device manufacturing.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
March 6, 2019 ~7 min

Researchers catalog defects that give 2-D materials amazing properties

Theoretical analysis distinguishes observed “holes” from the huge list of hypothetically possible ones.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 14, 2019 ~6 min

Physicists record “lifetime” of graphene qubits

First measurement of its kind could provide stepping stone to practical quantum computing.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 31, 2018 ~8 min


How to mass produce cell-sized robots

Technique from MIT could lead to tiny, self-powered devices for environmental, industrial, or medical monitoring.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 23, 2018 ~8 min

A better device for measuring electromagnetic radiation | MIT News

New bolometer is faster, simpler, and covers more wavelengths.

David Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
June 11, 2018 ~6 min

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