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.
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
MIT physicist shares award for influential work on “magic-angle” graphene.
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What Makes a Good Proton Conductor?
Zach Winn | MIT News
MIT researchers found a way to predict how efficiently materials can transport protons in clean energy devices and other advanced technologies.
New Materials Could Boost the Energy Efficiency of Microelectronics
Adam Zewe | MIT News
By stacking multiple active components based on new materials on the back end of a computer chip, this new approach reduces the amount of energy wasted during computation.
MIT Physicists Observe Key Evidence of Unconventional Superconductivity in Magic-angle Graphene
The findings could open a route to new forms of higher-temperature superconductors.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
A “seating chart” for Atoms Helps Locate Their Positions in Materials
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
The DIGIT imaging tool could enable the design of quantum devices and shed light on atomic-scale processes in cells and tissues.
AI System Learns from Many Types of Scientific Information and Runs Experiments to Discover New Materials
Zach Winn | MIT News
The new “CRESt” platform could help find solutions to real-world energy problems that have plagued the materials science and engineering community for decades.