Materials

An aircraft made entirely by a 3D printer takes flight

19 Apr 2013

Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design

Decoding the structure of bone

By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 17 Apr 2013

New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight

By By Andrew Myers | 15 Apr 2013

Patterning graphene with DNA

By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 10 Apr 2013

Folded DNA templates allow researchers to precisely cut out graphene shapes, which could be used in electronic circuits.

Controlled surface diffusion may help define shapes of catalytic nanoparticles

10 Apr 2013

Microscopy uncovers "dancing" silicon atoms in graphene

08 Apr 2013

A new understanding of metallic glass

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 05 Apr 2013

Long predicted atomic collapse state observed in graphene

02 Apr 2013

New insulating plaster for Bamberg’s old town

01 Apr 2013

Trees used to create recyclable, efficient solar cell

28 Mar 2013

Solar cells are just like leaves, capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy. It’s fitting that they can now be made partially from trees

New solar-cell design based on dots and wires

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 26 Mar 2013

Researchers make breakthrough in race to create 'bio-batteries'

26 Mar 2013

Breakthrough in race to create 'bio-batteries'

26 Mar 2013

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria.

Measuring mercury: common test may overestimate exposure from dental amalgam fillings

21 Mar 2013

Predicted state of atomic collapse seen for first time

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 16 Mar 2013

Atomic collapse, a phenomenon first predicted in the 1930s based on quantum mechanics and relativistic physics but never before observed, has now been seen for the first time in an “artificial nucleus” simulated on a sheet of graphene