MIT physicists and colleagues have created a new material with unusual superconducting and metallic properties thanks to wavy layers of atoms only billionths of a meter thick that repeat themselves over and over to create a macroscopic sample that can be manipulated by hand. The large size of the sample makes it much easier to explore its quantum behavior, or interactions at the atomic scale that give rise to its properties.
President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Benedetto Marelli about using silk-based coatings to improve agricultural methods, food security, and food safety.
By analyzing X-ray crystallography data, the model could help researchers develop new materials for many applications, including batteries and magnets.
MIT startup AeroShield has opened a new facility for manufacturing highly insulating windows that will reduce building energy use and cut carbon emissions.
“We are adding a new layer of control between the world of computers and what your eyes see,” says Barmak Heshmat, co-founder of Brelyon and a former MIT postdoc.
For Sarah Sterling, the new director of the Cryo-Electron Microscopy facility at MIT.nano, better planning and more communication leads to better science.
