Work could lead to heady applications in novel electronics and more.

The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.

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

Work with skyrmions could have applications in future computers and more.

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.

Inaugural award goes to MIT condensed matter theory professors of physics.

MIT researchers find that changing the pH of a system solves a decades-old problem.

The materials’ stiffness increases up to 40 percent, in a reversible effect, the researchers report in a study that also explains the phenomenon's atomic origins.

New understanding of metal electrolysis could help optimize production of metals like lithium and iron.

Discovery shows for the first time that multiferroic properties can exist in a two-dimensional material; could lead to more efficient magnetic memory devices.