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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.

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.

Working with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, researchers show bridge corrosion can be repaired on-site using additive manufacturing.

“A channel for people and ideas to flow freely through the heart of MIT,” the walkway between buildings 12, 13, 24, and 31 has been named in honor of MIT’s 17th president.

Watery fluid between cells plays a major role, offering new insights into how organs and tissues adapt to aging, diabetes, cancer, and more.

By delivering an HIV vaccine candidate along with two adjuvants, researchers showed they could generate many more HIV-targeting B cells in mice.

Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers created a superconducting circuit that could one day replace semiconductor components in quantum and high-performance computing systems.

Researchers designed a tiny receiver chip that is more resilient to interference, which could enable smaller 5G “internet of things” devices with longer battery lives.