Materials
Preventing metal embrittlement
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 07 Feb 2015
Spider electro-combs its sticky nano-filaments
31 Jan 2015
Perovskites boost silicon solar cells: study
24 Jan 2015
Putting a film of the crystalline material perovskite on top of a silicon solar cell increases the cell's efficiency nearly 50 per cent, Stanford engineers say
Laser-induced graphene ‘super’ for electronics
22 Jan 2015
New fibres can deliver many simultaneous stimuli
22 Jan 2015
Implanted into the brain or spinal column, they can transmit drugs, light, and electrical signals
Cheap asphalt provides ‘green’ carbon capture
12 Jan 2015
Contact lens merges plastics and active electronics via 3-D printing
07 Jan 2015
The contact lens is part of an ongoing effort to use 3-D printing to assemble diverse, and often hard-to-combine, materials into functioning devices
Titanium metal foam may help fuse metal into bones to repair damages
27 Dec 2014
The porus metallic foam allows the bone to grow around and within it, truly integrating the implant with the skeleton
Researchers create tunable photon-pair spectrum using room-temperature quantum optics silicon chip
26 Dec 2014
Defects are perfect in laser-induced graphene
13 Dec 2014
Chemicals released during natural gas extraction may harm human reproduction, development
12 Dec 2014
Material made of single-atom layers snap together like Legos
10 Dec 2014
The new material — made of a layer of graphene and a layer of tungsten disulphide — could be used in solar cells and flexible electronics
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