Category: News
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Using AI to take research to the next level : synergy between necstlab and MIT’s Quest for Intelligence
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 2020, and ask you to check it out – specifically pages 28-29. Here’s the direct link the…
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Prof. Wardle hosts MIT Materials Special Seminar on Polymer NanoComposites with Invited Speakers from Queens Mary University of London
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 London.
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Expediting the cure on aircraft composite materials with out-of-oven technique
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
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necstlab alum Hulya Cebeci honored
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 ITU via the links below: http://www.tuba.gov.tr/en/news/about-academy/2019-tuba-awards-announced https://web.itu.edu.tr/geyikh http://www.tuba.gov.tr/en/news/about-academy/2019-tuba-awards-announced
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Unique material innovations reduce costs in manufacturing
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, high operational cost, long cure times and geometrical constraints on the components to be cured. In August, the team demonstrated carbon nanotube heaters for…
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A Celebration for Tsu-Wei Chou
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). More information about the Symposium can be found here: …
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Professor Dugundji celebrated his 94th Birthday with us
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 amassed a veritable wealth of information and knowledge that is greatly appreciated by those working in our labs. He’s also always…
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Metis Design Corp. (MDC), longtime collaborator with necstlab on multifunctional CNT research, has won the prestigious “SHM in Action” industry award…
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 Aerospace”. MDC collaborated with Analog Devices and necstlab on this technology, which is a…
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necstlab’s continuing collaborations with NIST
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 publication: Aligned carbon nanotube morphogenesis predicts physical properties of their polymer nanocompositesNatarajan, B, Stein, I.Y., Lachman, N.,…
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Blackest black discovered and used in art-science project
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). The discovery was influenced by the ongoing art-science collaborations with Diemut Strebe, Artist in Residence at MIT. The first work in the collaboration with Strebe, called the Redemption…