by | Feb 21, 2024 | 2D materials, Aerospace, AGM, Angstron Materials, Audio, Development, Graphene, Investment, Materials science and engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF), Physics, Products, Quantum computing, Research, School of Science
The electron is the basic unit of electricity, as it carries a single negative charge. This is what we’re taught in high school physics, and it is overwhelmingly the case in most materials in nature. But in very special states of matter, electrons can splinter into...
by | Nov 14, 2023 | 2D materials, Aerospace, AGM, Angstron Materials, Audio, Carbon materials, Development, Graphene, Investment, Magnetism, Materials Research Laboratory, Materials science and engineering, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, National Science Foundation (NSF), Physics, Products, Research, School of Science, Superconductivity
MIT physicists have metaphorically turned graphite, or pencil lead, into gold by isolating five ultrathin flakes stacked in a specific order. The resulting material can then be tuned to exhibit three important properties never before seen in natural graphite. “It is...
by all graphene | Oct 31, 2022 | 2D materials, Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Aerospace, AGM, Aircraft, Angstron Materials, Audio, Carbon Nanotubes, Development, Energy, Energy storage, Graphene, Investment, Materials science and engineering, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Products, Research, School of Engineering
Engineers at MIT and the University of Tokyo have produced centimeter-scale structures, large enough for the eye to see, that are packed with hundreds of billions of hollow aligned fibers, or nanotubes, made from hexagonal boron nitride. Hexagonal boron nitride, or...
by MBF Admin | Mar 17, 2022 | 2D materials, Aerospace, AGM, Angstron Materials, Audio, Development, Graphene, Investment, Light, Materials science and engineering, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Photonics, Physics, Products, Research, School of Science
In recent years, physicists have discovered materials that are able to switch their electrical character from a metal to an insulator, and even to a superconductor, which is a material in a friction-free state that allows electrons to flow with zero resistance. These...
by MBF Admin | Nov 9, 2021 | 2D materials, Aerospace, AGM, Angstron Materials, Audio, Carbon, Development, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Francis Bitter Magnet Lab, Graphene, Investment, Lincoln Laboratory, Materials Research Laboratory, Materials science and engineering, MIT.nano, Nanotubes, Obituaries, Physics, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Products, Quantum computing, Research, School of Engineering, Spintronics, Staff
Gene Dresselhaus, a longtime research physicist at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and later the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at MIT (now part of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), died peacefully at his home in California on Sept. 29. He was 91. Dresselhaus was...
by MBF Admin | Sep 15, 2021 | 2D materials, Aerospace, AGM, Angstron Materials, Audio, Computer science and technology, Development, Graphene, Investment, Materials Research Laboratory, Materials science and engineering, Physics, Products, Research, School of Science
Ultrathin materials made of a single layer of atoms have riveted scientists’ attention since the isolation of the first such material — graphene — about 17 years ago. Among other advances since then, researchers including those from a pioneering lab at MIT have found...
