The promise of wearables, functional fabrics, the Internet of Things, and their "next-generation" technological cohort seems tantalizingly within reach. But researchers in the field will tell you a prime reason for their ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 21, 2018
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Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them study quantum mechanics.
Quantum Physics
Jul 20, 2018
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Who would guess that cracking the mystery of how infinitesimally small atoms arrange themselves at the edges of crystals in advanced materials could be as simple as one, two, three?
Nanophysics
Jun 4, 2018
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Blend two or three metals together and you get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns.
Condensed Matter
Apr 13, 2018
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Researchers at MIT have developed a process that can produce ultrafine fibers—whose diameter is measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter—that are exceptionally strong and tough. These fibers, which should be inexpensive ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 5, 2018
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In recent years, research efforts such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the Materials Project have produced a wealth of computational tools for designing new materials useful for a range of applications, from energy ...
Materials Science
Nov 6, 2017
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When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of Africa, they passed through the Middle East and Turkey before heading deeper into Asia and Europe.
Archaeology
Oct 24, 2017
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Cells secrete nanoscale packets called exosomes that carry important messages from one part of the body to another. Scientists from MIT and other institutions have now devised a way to intercept these messages, which could ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 18, 2017
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Last winter, MIT researchers discovered that a phenol-formaldehyde polymer transformed into a glassy carbon material in a process similar to baking reaches its best combination of high strength and low density at 1,000 degrees ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 4, 2017
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When you charge a battery, or when you use it, it's not just electricity but also matter that moves around inside. Ions, which are atoms or molecules that have an electric charge, travel from one of the battery's electrodes ...
Nanophysics
Apr 12, 2017
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