Nano Day 2020: A nanoscale view of the pandemic

October 9 is National Nanotechnology Day—the date that corresponds to one nanometer, 1x10-9 or one billionth of a meter.

This year, MIT.nano is recognizing Nano Day by taking measure of COVID-19 challenges and solutions in nanometers.
 

Tool talk & workshop with Gatan—Oct. 29

Join us for a virtual tool talk and workshop with Gatan to learn how to get the best out of the Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) and how to optimize experimental conditions to capture the full spectrum of information assessable by EELS.

Thursday, October 29, 2020
11 am – 1 pm EST

Attendees can join via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 945 8610 0937

Microphotonics Everywhere; Advanced Materials Research for Breakthrough Technologies Part 3—Oct. 28

Microphotonic innovations: materials moving up the food chain
Juejun (JJ) Hu, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering

The Dawn of Integrated Photonics
Rajeev Ram, Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT

The third of four webinars in the Advanced Materials Research for Breakthrough Technologies Webinar Series, co-hosted by MIT Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) and MIT's Industrial Liaison Program (ILP).

A step toward a universal flu vaccine

With computer models and lab experiments, researchers are working on a strategy for vaccines that could protect against any influenza virus.

Turning diamond into metal

Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain in a new theoretical model.