Middle-school students meet a beam of electrons, excitement results

Want to get middle-school kids excited about science? Let them do their own experiments on MIT.nano’s state-of-the-art microscopes—with guidelines and adult supervision, of course. That was the brainchild…

Researchers develop a detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases

...much less sensitive.The results are reported today in the journal Advanced Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Aristide Gumyusenge, Mircea Dinca, Heather Kulik, and Jesus del…

Scientists develop an affordable sensor for lead contamination

...lly requires days to get results. Or, it uses simple test strips that simply reveal a yes-or-no answer about the presence of lead but no information about its concentration. Current…

This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

...n up to 75 percent.These results were only possible due to a robust group of collaborators, Fink says. Graduate students at the Rhode Island School of Design helped the researchers u…

Gumyusenge wins Doherty Professorship to take on “forever chemicals”

...pired by the preliminary results in the J-WAFS study that we wanted to expand it, delving deeper into materials design and processing to develop highly reliable sensors.” The Dohe…

A first-ever complete map for elastic strain engineering

...have the map.” The results could also influence the design of next-generation computer chips capable of running much faster and cooler than today’s processors, as well as qua…

“Life is short, so aim high”

...Now it’s churning out results. If we continue to work quite hard, and if we catch a lot of breaks, it’s possible that chalcogenide perovskite solar cells will contribute meaning…

Researchers harness 2D magnetic materials for energy-efficient computing

...(the bottom slab), which results in the creation of an electron spin current that switches the magnetic state of the 2D ferromagnet on top. The colored spheres represent the atoms in…

Hitchhiking cancer vaccine makes progress in the clinic

...lid tumor clinical trial results are promising so far....ls, with promising early results in treating pancreatic cancer....nt, is showing promising results in clinical trials — including Phase 1 data suggesting the vaccine could serve as a viable option for the prevention of pancreatic and other cancer…

MSE Seminar Series: Ultraclean 2D Materials for Ferroelectricity, Superconductivity, and Topological Phenomena

...l potential is made. Our results indicate that superconductivity in bilayer Td-MoTe2 can be completely quenched by an electrostatic gate, and that the superconducting behavior is c…