Super congratulations to Shaan Jagani, Eric Shaw, and Gretel Gonzalez of TEAM Aero Electric Flight Academy for winning the $10K Prize at the SpaceTech 2024 Conference hosted by MIT AeroAstro! Shaan and his team pitched an entrepreneurial plan to operate a chain of environmentally sustainable...
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Tue, 04/16/2024
Tue, 04/16/2024
Congratulations to Palak Patel, Shaan Jagani, Alisa Webb, and the rest of the MIT team MARTEMIS for being selected as a finalist in the 2024 NASA RASCAL Competition under the Long-Duration Mars Simulation at the Moon theme! This year, the team is partnering with the Swiss Federal Institute of...
Thu, 04/04/2024
Congratulations to Christopher Kwon and Shaan Jagani, both second year graduate students in AeroAstro, for being awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s or doctoral degrees in...
Wed, 02/28/2024
The Wardle group's research on nanostitch recently received a shoutout on the Materialism podcast, episode "83: Computed Tomography at Zeiss". At around timestamp 36:40, the episode talks about necstlab's usage of micro CT to image carbon nanotube nanostitch reinforcement in the...
Tue, 11/28/2023
Haozhe Wang recently joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as a new faculty member. Haozhe received his PhD at MIT in Jing Kong’s group and spent a year in necstlab as a Postdoc before heading to CalTech on a prestigious Fellowship. Check out his ...
Mon, 11/20/2023
Congratulations to Palak Patel, Christopher Kwon, and the MIT ARTEMIS Steelworks Team for their BIG Picture Award win at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's BIG Idea Lunar Forge Challenge 2023! As finalists, the team...
Fri, 11/17/2023
"I (Prof. Wardle) was fortunate to visit Penn State University, his alma mater, and give a lecture in the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering. This was such a fun and productive visit, including PSU’s impressive Materials Research Institute and many new things in AERSP Dept. as well. Highlight was...
Fri, 08/25/2023
Xinchen Ni recently joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as Assistant Professor. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Fudan University in 2012 and completed a S.M. and a Ph.D. at MIT in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering in 2014 and 2020, respectively. Afterward, He was...
Sat, 08/05/2023
Nyvia Lyles is a rising senior chemical engineering major attending Howard University. She is originally from Chicago, Illinois. Nyvia is an American Chemical Society Scholar with experience fabricating microheaters, modeling filamentous architectures, characterizing ceramics, and synthesizing...
Wed, 07/26/2023
Prof. Wardle's work with Analog Devices and Metis Design Corporation on Witness Integrity Sensor Platform (WISP) technology was recently selected as a finalist for the DoD Maintenance Innovation Challenge. The DoD Maintenance Innovation Challenge seeks to identify and recognize innovations that...
Thu, 07/13/2023
Prof. Wardle and Prof. Shanmugam's collaborative journal article "Multifunctionality of nanoengineered self-sensing lattices enabled by additive manufacturing" was chosen to be part of the virtual issue of Best of Advanced Materials - 2023 Edition. This Virtual Issue presents the Editor...
Wed, 05/24/2023
Congratulations to Palak Patel, a third year Ph.D. student in the department of Mechanical Engineering, for being awarded the NASA NSTGRO Fellowship. The goal of NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) is to sponsor U.S. citizen and permanent resident graduate students who...
Yuying Lin, Alisa Webb, Palak Patel and MIT RASC-AL Team receive top marks at the 2023 RASC-AL Forum
Fri, 04/28/2023
Graduate students Yuying Lin, Alisa Webb, and Palak Patel were part of MIT's NASA Homesteading Mars Team that presented their space mission design at NASA's RASC-AL 2023 competition in Cocoa Beach, Florida. This year's Homesteading Mars theme challenged teams to propose a 7-year mission to Mars...
Sat, 02/18/2023
After passing her qualifying exams, Ph.D. candidate Palak Patel went to Verbier, Switzerland, and took part in extreme environment training led by explorer Alban Michon, as a part of her training to be an astronaut for Asclepios III Analog Space Mission Program. The training took place over five...
Fri, 02/10/2023
Super congratulations to Palak Patel in passing her thesis qualifiying examinations in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, a huge milestone for Ph.D. candidacy.
Thu, 02/09/2023
Hillel Dei was among five students in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics to recieve the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship. The Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program, established in memory of Matthew Isakowitz, a pioneer in the commercial space industry, aims to inspire a passion for...
Sun, 11/13/2022
Congratulations to Marianna Rogers, necstlab's MSRP intern during the summer, for recieving first place for her research presentation at the SpaceVision conference hosted by the University of Chicago! Marianna presented the work that she conducted during her time as an MSRP intern in necstlab...
Mon, 10/31/2022
Prof. Wardle, Dr. Luiz Acauan, former MIT postdoc Dr. Haozhe Wang, and collaborators at the University of Tokyo have recently produced centimeter-scale structures that are packed with billions of hollow aligned boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT). These nanotubes, coined as "white graphene", have...
Thu, 07/28/2022
Over the summer, Palak Patel was studying damage progression in nano-engineered aerospace carbon fiber composites using synchrotron radiation computed tomography at the Super Photon Ring 8 GeV, the most powerful synchrotron radiaiton facility in the world located in Hyogo, Japan. She led a team...
Tue, 05/24/2022
Dr. Luiz Acauan presented his work on carbon and boron nitride nanostructures synthesis and their applications as multifunctional materials at the prestigious (invitation-only) Guadalupe conference this May in Texas (...
Tue, 05/10/2022
New work on additively manufactured (AM) self-sensing porous nanocomposite lattices, led by Prof. Wardle’s collaborator Prof. Kumar Shanmugam (Univ. of Glasgow, UK), has been featured in several media writeups, was published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, and will appear on...
Mon, 05/09/2022
We are happy to see Dr. Haozhe Wang’s (former necstlab Postdoc) continued success and recognition of his work with a Gold Medal Best poster at MRS Spring 2022 in Hawaii. Perhaps just as great, Haozhe and Prof. Yue Zhou (also former necstlab Postdoc) met up for the smallest necstlab conference...
Mon, 04/18/2022
Jeongyoon Lee recently joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering as an assistant professor. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST in 2012 and completed a S.M. and a Ph.D. at MIT in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Afterward, he continued...
Fri, 04/15/2022
Four MIT students, including Chloe Gentgen (AeroAstro), Rebecca Jiang (AeroAstro), Palak Patel (MechE), and Jessica Todd (AeroAstro), were among 32 students selected to participate in the Caltech Space Challenge 2022, where they worked in teams to design a sample return mission to Titan. This...
Fri, 04/08/2022
Former group member Yue Zhou (now an Assistant Professor at SDSU) has won two early-career awards for his innovative work in energy storage devices. Yue received both NSF Early Career award and ONR Young Investigator award in 2022. necstlab...
Thu, 02/24/2022
A recently-published collaboration between researchers in necstlab and the Robust Robotics Group was highlighted by ...
Tue, 02/22/2022
Carolina Furtado Pereira da Silva recently joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Applied Mathematics Section as Assistant Professor. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto in Portugal. During her pursuit of a Ph.D, she was a...
Mon, 09/27/2021
Palak Patel, a stellar graduate student working in necstlab since 2020, was part of the MIT team that took first place in the 2021 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkages (RASC-AL) (RASC-AL) Special Edition: Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge...
Mon, 06/07/2021
Dr. Carolina Furtado Pereira da Silva, who was a visiting PhD student in necstlab in 2017 and returned as a post-doctoral researcher in 2020, won the “Best Ph.D. Thesis in the field of Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering” award promoted by ECCOMAS (the European Community on...
Thu, 06/03/2021
Dr. Ashley Kaiser, one of our outstanding necstlab researchers over the past few years, was recognized by the MIT School of Engineering and during the MIT Commencement Ceremonies on June 4th, 2021. Please take a few moments to review this video of her work and learn more about her search to...
Fri, 09/04/2020
necstlab researchers recently upgraded their in-lab wardrobe to assure safer working conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic. Take a look at these snazzy threads!
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Mon, 08/31/2020
Included in the July/August 2020 issue of "Composites Manufacturing" (the Official Magazine of the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA)) is a write-up from Professor Wardle titled, "CNT Curing for Aerospace Parts". This is one part of the larger article "Turning Ideas into...
Mon, 08/17/2020
Xinchen Ni and Reed Kopp gave an invited webinar entitled "Experimental Progressive Damage in Next-Generation and Nanoengineered Advanced Composites via X-ray Computed Tomography and Automated Segmentation Using Deep Learning" on August 17th to a US-COMP audience. The invitation was extended to...
Tue, 04/28/2020
See how the the MIT Quest for Intelligence (https://quest.mit.edu/news/) has worked with Reed Kopp and others in necstlab, providing tools to tackle big data. We acquired an early edition of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Spectrum for Spring...
Thu, 02/20/2020
Prof. Wardle hosts a special seminar through the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics on "Brief Overview of Polymer (Nano)Composites at QMUL: from Novel and More Sustainable Manufacturing to Multifunctional Properties to Applications" with invited speakers from Queen Mary University of...
Mon, 02/03/2020
Our out-of-oven curing processes recently made the news again in this write-up from AIAA's Aerospace America :
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/out-of-oven-curing/
Local copy of the...
Mon, 01/06/2020
necstlab alum Hulya Cebeci, now at Istanbul Technical University, received the TÜBA-GEBİP - Outstanding Young Scientist Award. The award was presnted by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Find out more about this stunning achievement and follow Professor Cebeci's research at...
Mon, 12/30/2019
This year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Metis Design Corp. collaborated to demonstrate an “out-of-oven” composite curing process that addresses the limitations of conventional oven- and autoclave-based processes. Those drawbacks include poor energy efficiency,...
Wed, 11/06/2019
In celebration of Prof. Tsu-Wei Chou’s 50 years of contributions at the Univ. of Delaware, Prof. Wardle was pleased to present a lecture and join the celebrations. Prof. Wardle featured work by Xinchen Ni, Nathan Fritz, and Dr. Jeonyoon Lee (and their co-authors/colleagues of course).
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Fri, 10/25/2019
Continuing a tradition, Professor John Dugundji returned to MIT to celebrate his 94th birthday with some of his family, researchers in necstlab, members of the AeroAstro Department, and others.
Throughout his long tenure at MIT, he's...
Mon, 10/21/2019
Please take a moment to review our latest invited paper in MRS Advances :
Ni, X., Fritz, N., & Wardle, B. (n.d.).
In Situ Testing Using Synchrotron Radiation Computed Tomography in Materials...
Mon, 09/16/2019
Metis Design Corp. (MDC), longtime collaborator with necstlab on multifunctional CNT research, has won the prestigious “SHM in Action” industry award, announced last week at the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2019) for "The Most Practical SHM Solutions for...
Thu, 09/12/2019
The blackest black material was discovered recently by necstlab Postdoc Kehang Cui (now Prof. Cut at Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and reported in the journal ACS-AMI (http://news.mit.edu/2019/blackest-black-material-cnt-0913...
Thu, 09/12/2019
In necstlab’s continuing collaborations with NIST, quantitative 3D TEM morphological information has allowed thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties to be predicted for the first time for aligned nanofiber (here, carbon nanotubes, CNTs) polymer nanocomposites (PNCs).
See our recent...
Wed, 06/12/2019
Dr. Stephen Steiner III presented his novel work on aerogel technologies at our 25th NECST Consortium meeting - his work has also gained popular interest through a viral youtube video here (...
Fri, 06/07/2019
necstlab sends three for degrees at MIT's Commencement Ceremonies in June 2019. Click through for pictures of Professor Wardle with Ashley Kaiser and Fred Daso, as well as Travis Hank at the end of the ceremony.
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Mon, 05/27/2019
Dr. Richard Li and a large team of researchers have been working towards a better understanding of nanocarbon synthesis for quite some time. Please see the published results of their work in Angewandte Chemie; here is the document information from our Publications page:
Li, R., Antunes,...
Thu, 05/02/2019
"Morphology control of aligned carbon nanotube pins formed via patterned capillary densification" by MIT necstlab authors Ashley Kaiser, Itai Stein, Kehang Cui, and Brian Wardle, published in Nano Futures,...
Fri, 04/19/2019
Dr. Miso Kim returned to MIT for an informal research presentation to necstlab on 19 April 2019. Dr. Kim is an MIT alumna who worked with Professors Dugundji and Wardle during her PhD on energy harvesting (granted in 2012), and is currently a senior research scientist at Korea Research...
Tue, 04/09/2019
Prof. Wardle had an opportunity recently to visit Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and the lab of former necstlab’r Prof. Hulya Cebeci. Hulya found the ITU ARC (Aerospace Research Center) that has impressive people and facilities, including new novel...
Wed, 10/31/2018
Even when playing with CNTs, necstlab members work hard! The above is a fun SEM image generated by Ashley Kaiser as part of a series of festive & patterned CNTs coming out of our lab.
Ashley writes, "Happy Halloween, from carbon nanotubes! These tiny materials have a...
Mon, 10/15/2018
Xinchen Ni was selected as one of the Graduate Student Award Finalists for the 2018 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston and won the Graduate Student Silver Award. Congratulations, Xinchen!!!
The Special Talk Sessions were held on Tuesday, November 27 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. More information...
Thu, 09/27/2018
Professor Wardle wrote chapter 4 of the newly published "Aerospace Materials and Applications" book (edited by Biliyar N. Bhat). You can acquire your copy here:
- Aerospace Research Central - https://arc.aiaa....
Wed, 09/12/2018
The MIT News Office writes all the campus news that fits to print. Check out their article on the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) summer interns who tackle materials science challenges, contribute to faculty research labs, and gain new skills - all while being "Interns at the forefront of...
Wed, 06/06/2018
Professor Brian Wardle is confirmed as a Keynote lecturer at ICCE-26! The ICCE conference is unique in that while it is an engineering conference, it has attracted numerous chemists, physicists and scientists from diverse fields in our efforts to promote interdisciplinary research on...
Sun, 06/03/2018
Professor Brian Wardle is confirmed as one of the Composiforum 2018 select few key note speakers!
To be hosted at Zaragoza, COMPOSIFORUM 2018 is the second industrial forum about composite and its applications, organised by the Aitiip Chair of University of Zaragoza. In this second...
Wed, 05/30/2018
Carolina Furtado, 3rd year student of the Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and researcher at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), won one of the...
Wed, 05/02/2018
May 2018
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research have awarded 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships to two graduate students in Professor of...
Thu, 04/26/2018
When artists and engineers collaborate
Diemut Strebe, the artist in residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, gave the conference’s keynote address, describing how art, science and technology interconnect in her works. In Sugababe (2014), Strebe...
Wed, 02/14/2018
MIT researchers Ashley Kaiser and Itai Stein create predictable patterns from unpredictable carbon nanotubes.
Fri, 01/05/2018
This article previously appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of the MIT Energy Initiative.
Mon, 12/11/2017
News website Advanced Science News has highlighted Professor Wardle's paper, "Stress Reduction of 3D Printed Compliance-Tailored Multilayers" (Full Paper, No. adem.201700883), as published...
Mon, 11/13/2017
Our group's most recent paper (J. Mater. Sci. 2017) was selected for 'Editors' Pick' at the Journal of Materials Science for the December 2017 issue.
Mon, 10/16/2017
Trevor Paglen colllaborated with necstlab on The Last Pictures project while he was an artist in residence at MIT. He spoke at MIT this fall with a title "The Planet is a Sensor".
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Fri, 09/29/2017
The Institute for Ultra-Strong Composites by Computational Design (US-COMP) is a NASA Space Technology Research Institute awarded in 2017.
US-COMP will serve as a focal point for partnerships between NASA, other agencies, industry, and academia to: (1) enable computationally-driven...
Tue, 09/12/2017
Diemut Strebe, Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, and Brian L. Wardle, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the director of the...
Fri, 09/01/2017
Carbon nanotubes lower the transformation temperature of glassy carbon, possibly aiding manufacturers, MIT researchers Itai Stein and Ashley Kaiser) report.
Last winter, MIT researchers discovered that a phenol-formaldehyde polymer transformed into a glassy carbon material in a process...
Tue, 05/30/2017
Namiko Yamamoto, assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, was recently awarded $447,663 through the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Sea-Based Aviation Airframe Structures and Materials program to study fundamental toughening mechanisms of novel ceramic composites and their use...
Sat, 04/15/2017
Established in the late Dr. McNair’s honor by the Black Alumni/ae of MIT, the scholarship "recognizes a black undergraduate who has demonstrated strong academic performance and who has made a considerable contribution to the minority community." An MIT alumnus (Course 8, PhD '77) Dr. McNair was...
Fri, 03/17/2017
“These materials we’re working with, which are commonly found in SU-8 and other hydrocarbons that can be hardened using ultraviolet [UV] light, are really promising for making strong and light lattices of beams and struts on the nanoscale, which only recently became possible due to advances in...
Thu, 01/19/2017
Technology co-developed by Metis Design Corp. and necstlab in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been licensed exclusivily by United Technologies Corp.
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Wed, 12/21/2016
“You can think of each nanotube in the forest as being concentrically coated with different layers of polymer,” says Brian Wardle, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “If you drew it in cross-section, it would be like rings on a tree.”
Sat, 10/01/2016
Aerospace engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that carbon nanotubes can act like nanoscopic stitches to bind layers of composite materials and prevent delamination.
Tue, 08/02/2016
The newest Airbus and Boeing passenger jets flying today are made primarily from advanced composite materials such as carbon fiber reinforced plastic — extremely light, durable materials that reduce the overall weight of the plane by as much as 20 percent compared to aluminum-bodied planes. Such...
Wed, 07/27/2016
University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineering major Ashley Kaiser joined MIT Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Brian L. Wardle's necstlab this summer with past experience in growing graphene and examining it with Raman spectroscopy.
Thu, 07/21/2016
MIT News Office, July 21, 2016
Adapting an old trick used for centuries by both metalsmiths and pastry makers, a team of researchers at MIT has found a way to efficiently create composite materials containing hundreds of layers that are just atoms thick but span the full width of the...
Wed, 06/01/2016
Prof. Hai Duong, former Postdoc in necstlab, has invented an oil-absorbing "super material" from waste paper.
Asst Prof Duong, who introduced the material at a media briefing on Monday (Feb 1), told TODAY he was inspired after being challenged by a janitor at NUS on what could be done...
Tue, 04/12/2016
"If you really want to make an engineering structure, at this point it’s not practical to use graphene,” says Itai Stein, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Graphene oxide is two to four orders of magnitude cheaper, and with our technique, we can tune the...
Fri, 01/01/2016
Collaborative research between necstlab and Stanford University has been recognized as one of the best papers of 2015 in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. necstlab and Prof. Ken Goodson’s group continue to work together on several topics, notably exploring heat transfer in...
Tue, 12/01/2015
MIT researchers have developed a composite manufacturing technique that does not require the use of large conventional ovens or autoclaves.
Sat, 10/31/2015
The collaboration with NECSTLAB and Saab is highlighted in the article "Aerocomposites: The move to multifunctionality" under the section "Aligned CNTs and nanostitching".
Thu, 10/01/2015
Sunny Wicks' work is featured in the article "Structural nanocomposites for aerospace applications", in the Oct. 2015 MRS Bulletin.
Mon, 06/29/2015
ACS Editors' Choice: a collaborative work of NIST and NECSTlab featuring 3D images of real polymer/aligned carbon nanotubes composites. These images help understanding why do such composites develop their properties.
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Tue, 06/23/2015
Carbon nanotube film could let manufacturers “bake” aircraft composites without a giant oven.
NECSTLAB research is featured in Technology Review.
Tue, 04/14/2015
necstlab featured on MIT homepage highlighting work of Itai Stein and Jeonyoon Lee.
Sat, 04/05/2014
Mackenzie Devoe has been selected to receive a $2,500 scholarship from The SVC Fund of the Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation. In addition, she is invited to attend the April 2015 SVC Technical Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
Mon, 09/09/2013
Carbon nanotube deicing technologies developed at MIT's necstlab could be in flight tests as early as next year.
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Thu, 05/30/2013
necstlab featured on MIT homepagehighlighting work of Stephen Steiner and Richard Li.
These days, aerospace engineering is all about the light stuff: building airplanes with lighter wings, fuselage and landing gear in an effort to reduce fuel costs.
Advanced carbon...
Mon, 12/24/2012
Fri, 11/30/2012
Of all the images that have ever been made, would you be able to select just 100 to represent our species and human achievement? Trevor Paglen’s Last Pictures is a project to do not only that, but also launch those images into geosynchronous orbit around Earth – all so that long after humans are...
Tue, 02/28/2012
Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are small devices with huge potential. Typically made of components less than 100 microns in size — the diameter of a human hair — they have been used as tiny biological sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes and actuators.
For the most part, existing...
Tue, 05/24/2011
Analytical extraction of residual stresses and gradients in MEMS structures with application to CMOS-layered materials
F Fachin, S A Nikles, J Dugundji and B L Wardle
2011 J. Micromech. Microeng. 21 095017
doi: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/9/095017
Tue, 05/24/2011
Antidefects nanotubes
[Translation from French] Nanotubes to visualize defects of damaged airplane or wind turbine pieces: such is the vision of some physicists at MIT, in the US. They used the fact that nanotubes heat up when in the path of an electric current. By...
Tue, 05/24/2011
Roberto Guzman de Villoria's article on enhanced thermography made the journal highlights list for 2011.
Mon, 03/28/2011
Catching cancer with carbon nanotubes
A Harvard bioengineer and an MIT aeronautical engineer have created a new device that can detect single cancer cells in a blood sample,...
Thu, 03/24/2011
Infrared themographic image of a nanoengineered composite heated via electrical probes (clips can be seen at bottom of image). The scalebar of...
Sun, 01/23/2011
Visions of the Future is a 6-part BBC documentary. In Part 2, "The Quantum Revolution", Dr. Michio Kaku visits NECST researchers A. John Hart, and Steven Steiner.
Fri, 12/24/2010
Congratulations to Miso Kim and John Dugundji for being included in the 20 most cited articles published in 2010 in Smart Materials and Structures, which contributed significantly to the Impact Factor.
Modeling and experimental verification of proof mass effects on vibration...
Sun, 10/10/2010
Actuators are devices that convert electrical energy into mechanical energy, such as the battery-powered device inside a cell phone that causes the phone to...
Mon, 08/10/2009
Carbon nanotubes - tiny, rolled-up tubes of graphite - promise to add speed to electronic circuits and strength to materials like carbon composites, used in airplanes and racecars. A major problem, however, is that the metals used to grow nanotubes react unfavorably with materials found in...
Thu, 06/04/2009
BECAUSE they are both strong and lightweight, composite materials made from carbon fibres are the darlings of engineers in the aerospace industry. Unfortunately, such materials deteriorate over time. Wind and rain attack the glue that sticks the layers of carbon fibres together. As a consequence...
Tue, 03/24/2009
In March, 2009, Dr. Michio Kaku returned to MIT for an extensive interview with NECST Director, Brian L. Wardle. for a new Science Channel series based on Dr. Kaku's book, "Physics of the Impossible".
Professor Wardle appeared in two episodes involving carbon nanotubes: "Designing a Light...
Wed, 03/04/2009
MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in cost.
Wed, 10/01/2008
A Nano Art website by A. John Hart
Nanobliss is a gallery of visualizations of small-scale structures of carbon nanotubes and silicon, created by John Hart and collaborators. The dimensions of these structures range...
Thu, 09/18/2008
Making Nanomaterials Better, Faster And More Accessible
Stephen Steiner wants to make nanotechnology more accessible to speed up the innovation process. The inclination to think big goes back to...
Sat, 12/01/2007
Aerospace America, December 2007, Structures pgs 80-81
Aerospace America, December 2006, Structures, pgs. 74-75
Thu, 05/24/2007
Plastics: The NECST Generation by Pontus Nordin
”Plastics.” The one-word career advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s young movie character Benjamin in the 1967 film The Graduate. Back then,...
Tue, 04/24/2007
Tiny Takes Over - Nano-Future Revisited
Imagine yourself traversing the barren landscape of a sweltering alien world – a land thirty times hotter than the hottest summer day you have ever...