Materials
Revealing how a battery material works
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 08 Feb 2012
Turning heat into power
By By David L Chandler, MIT News Office | 07 Feb 2012
Graphene electronics moves into a third dimension
04 Feb 2012
One of many potential applications of graphene is its use as the basic material for computer chips instead of silicon, which has caught the attention of major chip makers, including IBM, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Intel
How spider webs achieve their strength
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 03 Feb 2012
It’s not just the strength of the silk itself, a new study finds; the silk’s way of stretching and the structure of the whole web help it resist damage.
Growing graphene at room temperature
By By Katherine Bourzac | 03 Feb 2012
Disappearing gold a boon for nanolattices
30 Jan 2012
Berkeley Lab to develop novel materials for hydrogen storage
By By Julie Chao | 28 Jan 2012
The biggest challenge with hydrogen-powered fuel cells lies in understanding how to store enough hydrogen safely and cheaply to power a vehicle for 300 miles? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory hopes to solve this problem by synthesising novel materials with high hydrogen adsorption capacities.
Cooling semiconductor by laser light
24 Jan 2012
Researchers discover new method for cooling semiconductors by heating it using laser light
Watching a gas turn superfluid
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 20 Jan 2012
Developing power-over-fiber communications cable
18 Jan 2012
Inventing self-repairing batteries
16 Jan 2012
Graphene reveals its magnetic personality
09 Jan 2012
“Nanowiggles:” Graphene nanomaterials with tunable functionality in electronics
05 Jan 2012
Graphitic nanoribbons can be segmented into several different surface structures called nanowiggles. Each of these structures produces highly different magnetic and conductive properties
New biomaterial film coatings from whey found commercially viable
03 Jan 2012
Convenience foods are growing in popularity, and the food they contain is usually protected by films based on petrochemicals. Now researchers have not only developed a biomaterial from whey protein, they have also come up with a commercially viable method of producing multifunctional films on an industrial scale.
Researchers develop paint-on solar cells
29 Dec 2011
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