Discovery helps explain why solid-state batteries often fail
Zach Winn | MIT News
New research could help prevent the formation of tiny seeds of lithium metal within the electrolyte, enabling batteries that charge faster and last longer.
Graphene can hold multiple states of superconductivity, a new study finds
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
What’s more, the superconducting states get stronger under conditions expected to kill them.
Improving the performance of high-power electronics
Adam Zewe | MIT News
By using a thin layer of diamond to manage excessive heat, researchers can boost the speed and energy-efficiency of next-generation wireless devices.
MIT researchers develop a low-cost technique to get lithium out of rocks
Zach Winn | MIT News
The low-temperature process could unlock cleaner lithium from America’s abundant hard rock while minimizing waste.
Researchers “reprogram” materials by quickly rearranging their atoms
Zach Winn | MIT News
A new method for precisely moving columns of individual atoms within a material could give rise to exotic quantum properties.
Powerful shrinking technique could enable devices that compute with light
Anne Trafton | MIT News
MIT researchers created tiny 3D photonic devices with features small enough to channel visible light.
MIT Researchers use AI to Uncover Atomic Defects in Materials
Zach Winn | MIT News
A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials’ mechanical strength, heat transfer, and energy-conversion efficiency.
“Near-misses” in Particle Accelerators can Illuminate New Physics, Study finds
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
Physicists discovered new properties of the strong force by analyzing what happens when light-speed particles skim by each other.
Why Solid-state Batteries Keep Short-circuiting
Zach Winn | MIT News
New insights into metallic cracks that harm battery performance could advance the longstanding quest to develop energy-dense solid-state batteries.
MIT Engineers Design Structures that Compute with Heat
Adam Zewe | MIT News
By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing.