Materials
New materials improve oxygen catalysis
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 18 Sep 2013
Highly active catalysts could be key to improved energy storage in fuel cells and advanced batteries
Graphene could yield cheaper optical chips
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 16 Sep 2013
Made-to-Order Materials
12 Sep 2013
Made-to-Order Materials
06 Sep 2013
Disorder can improve the performance of plastic solar cells
By By Mark Shwartz | 10 Aug 2013
Instead of mimicking rigid solar cells made of silicon crystals, scientists should embrace the inherently disordered nature of plastic polymers, a Stanford study says.
Making cars that are lightweight and crash-safe
10 Aug 2013
Saws made of carbon
06 Aug 2013
Water clears path for nanoribbon development
03 Aug 2013
Improved nuclear fuel-rod cladding might prevent future Fukushimas
By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 27 Jul 2013
Optical fibre tests the laws of physics
25 Jul 2013
Scientists build thinnest light-absorber
By By Mark Shwartz | 24 Jul 2013
Scientists at Stanford have built the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record, a nanosize structure that could lead to less-costly, more efficient, solar cells
Graphene ‘onion rings’ have delicious potential
20 Jul 2013
Fitness test for corrosion-protection coatings
08 Jul 2013
Making computers from a pencil trace
29 Jun 2013
Solar power heads in a new direction: thinner
By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 28 Jun 2013
Atom-thick photovoltaic sheets could pack hundreds of times more power per weight than conventional solar cells
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