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Spin Doctors – Luis Velásquez‑García and team develop a cost‑effective way to spin nanoscale fibers

November 20th, 2012

Nanofibers — strands of material only a couple hundred nanometers in diameter — have a huge range of possible applications: scaffolds for bioengineered organs, ultrafine air and water filters, and lightweight Kevlar body armor, to name just a few. But so far, the expense of producing them has consigned them to a few high-end, niche
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How to corner the MEMS market

April 19th, 2012

In the last decade, MEMS (microelectromechanical devices) have wrought revolutions in several industries: Arrays of micromirrors, for instance, enabled digital film projectors, and accelerometers like those in Nintendo’s Wii controller have changed gaming. But commercially successful MEMS represent a tiny sampling of the prototypes developed in academic and industry labs, — from supersensitive biological sensors to
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Microsystems Technology Laboratories team wins award for tiny steam generator

May 13th, 2010

Best Oral Presentation at the 2009 International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications

Nano-pillars tipped for success

September 30th, 2008

Scientists at MIT have no shortage of applications for their dense arrays of high-aspect-ratio single-crystal silicon columns. The team believes that its nano-tipped vertical pillars could be ideal as electrical ballast for field emission sources, as porous media for nanofluidic systems or even as invasive probes for tissue studies.