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MIT.nano featured on Ask This Old House

MIT.nano was recently featured in an episode of Ask This Old House. MIT.nano Director and Professor of Electrical Engineering Vladimir Bulović shared what he believes to be the future of solar technology: an electricity-generating film that can be applied to windows and other materials.

Watch the episode.

Pursuing progress at the nanoscale

Nuclear Systems Design Project students tackle the real problem of bringing small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) technology to campus.

3-D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots

VulcanForms, an MIT startup, has developed a 3-D printer that can “generate 100 times the laser energy of most 3-D printers, and can produce parts many times faster,” reports Steve Lohr for The New York Times. “Additive manufacturing lets us rethink how we build things,” explains Martin Feldmann MEng ’14, co-founder, president and CEO of VulcanForms. “That’s where we are now, and that’s a big change.”

Robotic lightning bugs take flight

Inspired by fireflies, researchers create insect-scale robots that can emit light when they fly, which enables motion tracking and communication.