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The scientists, who worked together as postdocs at MIT, are honored for their discovery of microRNA — a class of molecules that are critical for gene regulation.

Advisors commended for providing exceptional individualized mentoring for postdocs.

The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells.

Read MIT System Design & Management alumni profile featuring Ben Linville-Engler, formerly the industry and certificate director for SDM and is now deputy director and chief investment strategist of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech).

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MIT and Lincoln Laboratory are among awardees of $38 million in project awards to the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition to boost U.S. chip technology innovation.

A newly discovered mechanism by which salt crystals leap off nanoengineered surfaces may lead to the development of industrial materials that resist the buildup of minerals from fresh and salt water.

Sahil Pontula ’23 sees endless possibilities for the future through quantum optics

The technique leverages quantum properties of light to guarantee security while preserving the accuracy of a deep-learning model.

Material engineers usually strive for perfection in the material composition and shape. However, nature is not always perfect, and many useful material properties originate from defects in the structure rather than from perfect periodicity and symmetry of materials. In a just-published Advanced Optical Materials manuscript, Abhishek Mukherjee and co-authors show how one can harness these imperfections to tune and enhance photoluminescence from AgScP2S6 – a new layered semiconductor material recently synthesized in the Air Force Research Lab.

Recent experiments conducted at Dr. Svetlana Boriskina’s MIT-META research lab, MIT.nano, ISN, and the Institute of Physics in Warsaw reveal that nano-scale sulfur vacancies in AgScP2S6 allow defect-state-to-valence-band transitions leading to visible light emission, while micro-scale structural defects in the material can enhance and modulate the photoluminescence intensity and shape its spectrum.

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MIT.nano is thrilled to announce the 2024 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecturer: Clare Grey!

Clare P. Grey, DBE, FRS is a Royal Society Research Professor and the Geoffrey Moorhouse-Gibson Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University.