J-WAFS announces 2023 seed grant recipients

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

Maria Paula Acosta Bello | Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Systems Lab • mit
May 17, 2023 ~19 min

MIT engineers “grow” atomically thin transistors on top of computer chips

A new low-temperature growth and fabrication technology allows the integration of 2D materials directly onto a silicon circuit, which could lead to denser and more powerful chips.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
April 27, 2023 ~10 min


Off-menu materials science

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

Daniel de Wolff | MIT Industrial Liaison Program • mit
April 26, 2023 ~8 min

Fiber “barcodes” can make clothing labels that last

Drawing inspiration from butterfly wings, reflective fibers woven into clothing could reshape textile sorting and recycling.

Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
March 21, 2023 ~6 min

Exploring the nanoworld of biogenic gems

Project will develop new materials characterization tools and technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls.

MIT.nano • mit
March 20, 2023 ~4 min

Resilient bug-sized robots keep flying even after wing damage

New repair techniques enable microscale robots to recover flight performance after suffering severe damage to the artificial muscles that power their wings.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
March 15, 2023 ~8 min

Nanotube sensors are capable of detecting and distinguishing gibberellin plant hormones

Developed at SMART, the nondestructive nanosensors could have wide applications in agricultural science.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
March 7, 2023 ~10 min

QuARC 2023 explores the leading edge in quantum information and science

The second annual student-industry conference was held in-person for the first time.

Center for Quantum Engineering • mit
March 3, 2023 ~6 min


New purification method could make protein drugs cheaper

MIT engineers find specialized nanoparticles can quickly and inexpensively isolate proteins from a bioreactor.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 28, 2023 ~7 min

Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”

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

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 15, 2023 ~5 min

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