Creating new opportunities from nanoscale materials
MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance.
First two-dimensional material that performs as both topological insulator and superconductor
MIT researchers have demonstrated that a tungsten ditelluride-based transistor combines two different electronic states of matter.
Researchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
Efficient method for making single-atom-thick, wafer-scale materials opens up opportunities in flexible electronics.
Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both
When rotated at a "magic angle," graphene sheets can form an insulator or a superconductor.
Modeling how colloidal particles spin through a fixed array
Summer Scholar Jennifer Coulter works on computer simulations with associate professor of materials science Alfredo Alexander-Katz.
J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
Four new projects and one renewal receive $150,000 in funding for 2016-2017.
Borrowing from pastry chefs, engineers create nanolayered composites
Method to stack hundreds of nanoscale layers could open new vistas in materials science.
Charging up random access memory
Researchers demonstrate room-temperature ferroelectric states in ultra-thin films of tin and tellurium.
Study opens new realms of light-matter interaction
Some “forbidden” light emissions are in fact possible, could enable new sensors and light-emitting devices.
Researchers discover new way to turn electricity into light, using graphene
By slowing down light to a speed slower than flowing electrons, researchers create a kind of optical “sonic boom.”
New way to control particle motions on 2-D materials
Study points the way to new photonic devices with one-way traffic lanes.
In Profile: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Experimental physicist explores the wild frontiers of graphene and other ultrathin materials.
New chip fabrication approach
Depositing different materials within a single chip layer could lead to more efficient computers.
Quantum materials: A new paradigm for computing?
Diamond spintronics and graphene-based infrared detectors are among leading-edge technologies reported at annual Materials Day Symposium at MIT.
Desalination gets a graphene boost
Jeffrey Grossman applies new materials research to making desalination cheaper and more efficient.