Finding the right quantum materials
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded MIT Associate Professor of Physics Joseph G. Checkelsky a $1.7 million Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative grant to pursue his...
View ArticleExploring interactions of light and matter
Growing up in a small town in Fujian province in southern China, Juejun Hu was exposed to engineering from an early age. His father, trained as a mechanical engineer, spent his career working first in...
View ArticleA wizard of ultrasharp imaging
Though Frances Ross and her sister Caroline Ross both ended up on the faculty of MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, they got there by quite different pathways. While Caroline...
View ArticleEngineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat
To capture panoramic views in a single shot, photographers typically use fisheye lenses — ultra-wide-angle lenses made from multiple pieces of curved glass, which distort incoming light to produce...
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Ultracold atoms reveal a new type of quantum magnetic behavior
A new study illuminates surprising choreography among spinning atoms. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, researchers from MIT and Harvard University reveal how magnetic forces at the...
View ArticleUnravelling carbon uptake in concrete pavements
Just along concrete’s gray surface, a chemical reaction is occurring. Known as carbonation, this reaction forms calcium carbonate, a benign chalk-like material, but it can also affect climate...
View ArticlePhysicists discover important new property for graphene
MIT researchers and colleagues recently discovered an important — and unexpected — electronic property of graphene, a material discovered only about 17 years ago that continues to surprise scientists...
View ArticleEngineering the boundary between 2D and 3D materials
In recent years, engineers have found ways to modify the properties of some “two- dimensional” materials, which are just one or a few atoms thick, by stacking two layers together and rotating one...
View ArticleAccounting for firms’ positive impacts on the environment
Gregory Norris is an expert on quantifying firms’ impacts on the environment over the life cycles of their products and processes. His analyses help decision-makers opt for more sustainable,...
View ArticleNano flashlight enables new applications of light
In work that could someday turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip.Their approach to...
View ArticlePhysicists find a novel way to switch antiferromagnetism on and off
When you save an image to your smartphone, those data are written onto tiny transistors that are electrically switched on or off in a pattern of “bits” to represent and encode that image. Most...
View ArticleMIT turns “magic” material into versatile electronic devices
MIT researchers and colleagues have turned a “magic” material composed of atomically thin layers of carbon into three useful electronic devices. Normally, such devices, all key to the quantum...
View ArticlePhysicists uncover secrets of world’s thinnest superconductor
Physicists from across three continents report the first experimental evidence to explain the unusual electronic behavior behind the world’s thinnest superconductor, a material with myriad applications...
View ArticleCustom-made MIT tool probes materials at the nanoscale
An MIT physicist has built a new instrument of interest to MIT researchers across a wide range of disciplines because it can quickly and relatively inexpensively determine a variety of important...
View ArticleMIT and Ericsson enter collaboration agreements to research the next...
The following article was adapted from a joint release by the MIT Materials Research Laboratory and Ericsson Research.As we enter a new age for electronics powered by 5G and eventually 6G networks, the...
View ArticlePhysicists engineer ferroelectricity in boron nitride
Ultrathin materials made of a single layer of atoms have riveted scientists’ attention since the isolation of the first such material — graphene — about 17 years ago. Among other advances since then,...
View ArticleWhy the future of textiles is collaborative
When MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) joined forces to advance textile research and to develop and employ sustainable fabrics of the future, they found that their work was so...
View ArticleConcrete’s role in reducing building and pavement emissions
As the most consumed material after water, concrete is indispensable to the many essential systems — from roads to buildings — in which it is used.But due to its extensive use, concrete production also...
View ArticleResearchers find a new way to control magnets
Most of the magnets we encounter daily are made of “ferromagnetic” materials. The north-south magnetic axes of most atoms in these materials are lined up in the same direction, so their collective...
View ArticleMaking roadway spending more sustainable
The share of federal spending on infrastructure has reached an all-time low, falling from 30 percent in 1960 to just 12 percent in 2018.While the nation’s ailing infrastructure will require more...
View ArticleEngineers report a major advance in creating a new family of semiconductor...
MIT engineers report creating the first high-quality thin films of a new family of semiconductor materials. The feat, which lead researcher Rafael Jaramillo refers to as his “white whale” because of...
View ArticleNew material could be two superconductors in one
MIT physicists and colleagues have demonstrated an exotic form of superconductivity in a new material the team synthesized only about a year ago. Although predicted in the 1960s, until now this type of...
View ArticleGene Dresselhaus, influential research scientist in solid-state physics, dies...
Gene Dresselhaus, a longtime research physicist at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and later the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at MIT (now part of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), died peacefully...
View ArticlePhysicists discover “secret sauce” behind exotic properties of a new quantum...
MIT physicists and colleagues have discovered the “secret sauce” behind some of the exotic properties of a new quantum material that has transfixed physicists due to those properties, which include...
View ArticleLight could boost performance of fuel cells, lithium batteries, and other...
Engineers from MIT and Kyushu University in Japan have demonstrated for the first time how light can be used to significantly improve the performance of fuel cells, lithium batteries, and other devices...
View ArticlePhysicists observe an exotic “multiferroic” state in an atomically thin material
MIT physicists have discovered an exotic “multiferroic” state in a material that is as thin as a single layer of atoms. Their observation is the first to confirm that multiferroic properties can exist...
View ArticleProviding hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
Photonics — the science of guiding and manipulating light — enables applications ranging from telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing to medical imaging, lidar, and augmented...
View ArticleTeam creates map for production of eco-friendly metals
In work that could usher in more efficient, eco-friendly processes for producing important metals like lithium, iron, and cobalt, researchers from MIT and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have...
View ArticleDonald Sadoway wins European Inventor Award for liquid metal batteries
MIT Professor Donald Sadoway has won the 2022 European Inventor Award, in the category for Non-European Patent Office Countries, for his work on liquid metal batteries that could enable the long-term...
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MIT team reports giant response of semiconductors to light
In an example of the adage “everything old is new again,” MIT engineers report a new discovery in semiconductors, well-known materials that have been the focus of intense study for over 100 years...
View ArticleA simple way to significantly increase lifetimes of fuel cells and other devices
In research that could jump-start work on a range of technologies including fuel cells, which are key to storing solar and wind energy, MIT researchers have found a relatively simple way to increase...
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View ArticleToward new, computationally designed cybersteels
What do the Apple watch and the Raptor engine of the SpaceX Starship have in common?Answer: Both are made, in part, from advanced materials developed over only a few years — as opposed to the usual...
View ArticleMIT physicists predict exotic new phenomena and give “recipe” for realizing them
In work that could lead to important new physics with potentially heady applications in computer science and more, MIT scientists have shown that two previously separate fields in condensed matter...
View ArticleMIT-led teams win National Science Foundation grants to research sustainable...
Three MIT-led teams are among 16 nationwide to receive funding awards to address sustainable materials for global challenges through the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program....
View ArticleTeam uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace,...
The materials key to many important applications in aerospace and energy generation must be able to withstand extreme conditions such as high temperatures and tensile stresses without failing. Now a...
View ArticlePhysicists discover a new switch for superconductivity
Under certain conditions — usually exceedingly cold ones — some materials shift their structure to unlock new, superconducting behavior. This structural shift is known as a “nematic transition,” and...
View ArticleInternational team reports powerful tool for studying, tuning atomically thin...
Physicists have been riveted by systems composed of materials only one or a few layers of atoms thick. When a few sheets of these two-dimensional materials are stacked together, a geometric pattern...
View ArticleNew quantum magnet unleashes electronics potential
Some of our most important everyday items, like computers, medical equipment, stereos, generators, and more, work because of magnets. We know what happens when computers become more powerful, but what...
View ArticleSimple superconducting device could dramatically cut energy use in computing,...
MIT scientists and their colleagues have created a simple superconducting device that could transfer current through electronic devices much more efficiently than is possible today. As a result, the...
View ArticleMachine-learning system based on light could yield more powerful, efficient...
ChatGPT has made headlines around the world with its ability to write essays, email, and computer code based on a few prompts from a user. Now an MIT-led team reports a system that could lead to...
View ArticleSmart pill can track key biological markers in real-time
Researchers from MIT, Boston University, and elsewhere report a smart pill the size of a blueberry that could be a game changer in the diagnosis and treatment of bowel diseases. That’s because it is...
View ArticlePhysicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals
In research that could jump-start interest into an enigmatic class of materials known as quasicrystals, MIT scientists and colleagues have discovered a relatively simple, flexible way to create new...
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Physicists trap electrons in a 3D crystal for the first time
Electrons move through a conducting material like commuters at the height of Manhattan rush hour. The charged particles may jostle and bump against each other, but for the most part they’re unconcerned...
View ArticleMIT physicists turn pencil lead into “gold”
MIT physicists have metaphorically turned graphite, or pencil lead, into gold by isolating five ultrathin flakes stacked in a specific order. The resulting material can then be tuned to exhibit three...
View ArticleTeam engineers nanoparticles using ion irradiation to advance clean energy...
MIT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other properties of nanoparticles key to the reactions involved in a variety of clean energy and...
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