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.
New Tool Makes Generative AI Models More Likely to Create Breakthrough Materials
Zach Winn | MIT News
With SCIGEN, researchers can steer AI models to create materials with exotic properties for applications like quantum computing.
MIT Physicists Discover a New Type of Superconductor that’s also a Magnet
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
The “one-of-a-kind” phenomenon was observed in ordinary graphite.
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New Electronic “skin” could Enable Lightweight Night-vision Glasses
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
MIT engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals, and could reduce the bulk of conventional goggles and scopes.
MIT Engineers Print Synthetic “Metamaterials” that are Both Strong and Stretchy
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
A new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy semiconductors.