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International Team Reports Powerful Tool for Studying, Tuning Atomically Thin Materials

Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity. The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.

Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications. The approach could improve the performance of many other materials as well.

Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices. FlexBoard is a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of objects with interactive sensors, actuators, and displays on curved and deformable surfaces.

Drawing inspiration from butterfly wings, reflective fibers woven into clothing could reshape textile sorting and recycling. Read more:

MIT scientists have shown that two previously separate fields in condensed matter physics can be combined to yield new, exotic phenomena. Work could have applications in future computers. Read more

Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in "magic-angle" graphene.

MIT spinout 24M Technologies designed a battery that reduces the cost of manufacturing lithium-ion cells. Read more @24M_Tech

Mining will play an important role in the world’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable forms of energy. How will the world meet that increasing demand while minimizing environmental and social impacts? Read more.

RT @FCTQ_uclm: Teachers make Frankensteel during Materials Camp at MIT

MIT team reports giant response of semiconductors to light and explains atomic origins of phenomenon. Read more

Team IDs simple way to significantly increase lifetimes of fuel cells and other key devices by changing the “pH” of the system. Read More

Teachers make Frankensteel during Materials Camp, a self-healing material inspired by the villain in the Terminator 2 movie Read more

How cool is this? An MIT Materials Camp for high-school science teachers where they made. Frankensteel. And they can recreate the experience for their students back home. @mitmrl

RT @mit_dmse: A lot of damage inside nuclear reactors is so small it’s difficult to detect. Now @MIT researchers Michael Short, Scott Kemp,….

RT @MITMechE: A team from @mitmrl including Prof. Yang Shao-Horn have mapped what happens at the atomic level in metal electrolysis. The wo….