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Kripa K. VaranasiDoherty Chair in Ocean UtilizationAssociate Professor of Mechanical EngineeringRead more: http://varanasi.mit.edu
Kripa K. VaranasiDoherty Chair in Ocean UtilizationAssociate Professor of Mechanical EngineeringRead more: http://varanasi.mit.edu
Kripa K. VaranasiDoherty Chair in Ocean UtilizationAssociate Professor of Mechanical EngineeringRead more: http://varanasi.mit.edu
Researchers at MIT have found a new way of making complex three-dimensional structures using self-assembling polymer materials that form tiny wires and junctions.
Researchers at UCLA demonstrate their fully stretchable OLED. They achieved the feat by sandwiching a carbon nanotube-polymer blend on either side of a light-emitting plastic.
Donald Sadoway is working on a battery miracle — an inexpensive, incredibly efficient, three-layered battery using “liquid metal."
Harnessing the principle that allows blood to clot, MIT researchers are working on new synthetic materials to plug holes.
Self-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states — such as color or size — without provocation from external stimuli. These changes are caused by the Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction, which was discovered during the 1950s. Without ...
Typically plants need an average of at least a few hundred watts per square meter of solar radiation to survive. At depths of a few hundred meters down in the ocean, the amount of solar radiation decays to around a millionth of the surface intensity so that ...
Systems that print mechanical components with metal powder could be used to build lighter, more efficient airplanes.
MIT Professor Paula Hammond talks about the promise of solar energy and why MIT is uniquely positioned to help realize that promise. Interview recorded 4/27/2009.
Molecular Aspects of Materials Design
A paper solar cell circuit is shown powering an LCD clock when illuminated. The entire integrated paper photovoltaic is then fed through a roll-to-roll office laser-jet printer. The resulting ink spells MIT on the device side of the paper array, which then continues to power the LCD clock. The ...
