Method uses readily available tools to quickly determine materials’ properties.

Color-changing materials could be used to detect structural failure in energy-related equipment.

Inexpensive sensors could be worn by soldiers to detect hazardous chemical agents.

Water-based material could be used to make artificial skin, longer-lasting contact lenses.

Stretching process can produce nanoscale rods or strips made of many material combinations.

Better understanding of topological semimetals could help usher in future electronics.

Nuclear science and engineering PhD student Cody Dennett simulates conditions inside reactors to measure microscopic defects in irradiated materials.

Researchers look to bones and shells as blueprints for stronger, more durable concrete.

As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with others.

Researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from graphene’s imperfect form.