Foundation Alloy, founded by a team from MIT, uses solid-state metallurgy technology to create a new class of high-performance metals.

PhD candidate Sabrina Corsetti builds photonic devices that manipulate light to enable previously unimaginable applications, like pocket-sized 3D printers.

Electrodes coated with DNA could enable inexpensive tests with a long shelf-life, which could detect many diseases and be deployed in the doctor’s office or at home.

This study is the first to directly visualize how salt crystals begin to grow and spread beneath a liquid meniscus during evaporation, according to the researchers. Using in situ X-ray microscopy, they were able to capture this hidden process in real time—a long-standing mystery in surface science and interfacial crystallization.

The work has implications for a wide range of applications, including desalination, mineral recovery, anti-fouling coatings, membrane technologies, and art preservation.

This work was carried out in part through the use of MIT.nano’s facilities!

Read more in Langmuir.

At a fireside chat, L. Rafael Reif and Anantha P. Chandrakasan discussed the importance of developing engineering leadership skills to solve the world’s most challenging problems.

The MIT-MGB Seed Program, launched with support from Analog Devices Inc., will fund joint research projects that advance technology and clinical research.

Co-founded by Professor Desirée Plata, the company is already producing nickel and cobalt from battery scrap in Ohio.

MIT’s first vice president for energy and climate is working to accelerate research and development toward transformational solutions.