Materials
A wolverine inspired material
28 Dec 2016
Microfactories turn unwanted electronics into valuable metal alloys; solve global e-waste crisis
07 Dec 2016
The breakthrough new process recovers the considerable wealth of resources embedded in e-waste while overcoming the challenges of toxicity and the often prohibitively high costs of conventional industrial-scale recycling
Making spines from sea water
06 Dec 2016
Nylon fibres made to flex like muscles
29 Nov 2016
MIT engineers find a simple and inexpensive new approach to creating bending artificial muscle fibres
Uncovering the secrets of friction on graphene
24 Nov 2016
Semiconductor-free microelectronics are now possible, thanks to metamaterials
08 Nov 2016
Using metamaterials, engineers have been able to build a micro-scale device that shows a 1,000-per cent increase in conductivity when activated by low voltage and a low power laser
Towards better metallic glasses
25 Oct 2016
Long may you wave, borophene
06 Oct 2016
New theory overcomes a longstanding polymer problem
By By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | 19 Sep 2016
For the past 100 years, polymer scientists have been stymied in their efforts to predict polymers’ elasticity, because the materials usually have structural flaws at the molecular level, which MIT researchers have now found a way of circumventing