Materials

Engineers invent high-tech mirror to beam heat away from buildings into space

01 Dec 2014

A new ultra-thin multi-layered material can cool buildings without air conditioning by radiating warmth from inside the buildings into space while also reflecting sunlight to reduce incoming heat

Controlling a material with voltage

26 Nov 2014

Cornell chemists develop new polymer using CO2

26 Nov 2014

Researchers develop efficient method to measure residual stress in 3D printed parts

25 Nov 2014

New 2-D quantum materials for nanoelectronics

24 Nov 2014

Yale engineer readies for rapid discovery of metallic glasses

04 Nov 2014

New solar power material converts 90% of captured light into heat

03 Nov 2014

One of the technology’s attractions is that it can be used to retrofit existing power plants that use coal or fossil fuels because it uses the same process to generate electricity from steam

Serendipitous holography reveals hidden cracks in shocked targets

03 Nov 2014

Cooking up carbon: sawdust and iron in the melting pot

30 Oct 2014

Atom-width Graphene sensors could provide unprecedented insights into brain structure and function

27 Oct 2014

Rethinking the Basic Science of Graphene Synthesis

25 Oct 2014

Charged graphene gives DNA a stage to perform molecular gymnastics

25 Oct 2014

Smallest possible diamonds form ultra-thin nanothread

24 Oct 2014

Solid nanoparticles can deform like a liquid

By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 20 Oct 2014

Colourful carbon monoxide sensor could help save lives

20 Oct 2014

Ultra-fast charging batteries that last 20 years developed

20 Oct 2014

Stanford scientists create a 'smart' lithium-ion battery that warns of potential fire hazards

16 Oct 2014

Rediscovered ceramic has potential in hypersonic flight

16 Oct 2014

Researchers in the UK and around the world are currently working on prototype technologies that could enable new types of aircraft to travel at hypersonic speeds - five times faster than the speed of sound

Novel porous silicon microfabrication technique increases sensing ability

14 Oct 2014

Unconventional photoconduction in an atomically thin semiconductor

By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 13 Oct 2014

Smallest possible diamonds form ultra-thin nanothreads

09 Oct 2014

Crumpled graphene could provide an unconventional energy storage

By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 06 Oct 2014

Two-dimensional carbon “paper” can form stretchable supercapacitors to power flexible electronic devices

A solar cell that stores its own power

04 Oct 2014

Researchers have invented a solar battery -- a combination solar cell and battery -- which recharges itself using air and light, using a special process for transferring electrons between the solar panel and the battery electrode