Category: News
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Better understanding of nanocarbon synthesis (or: New methods to grow your own CNTs at home)
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, E.F., Kalfon-Cohen, E., Kudo, A., Acauan, L., Yang, W.-C.D., Wang,…
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necstlab article in Nano Futures amasses more than 500 downloads!
“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, Volume 3, Number 1 on 31 January 2019, has achieved more than 500 downloads. The article is so popular that it’s also currently trending as one of the top 10…
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Dr. Miso Kim returned to MIT for a visit
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 Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS).…
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Wardle visit to ITUARC
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 additive manufacturing of nanengineered structural polymers.
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Festive CNTs: Patterned CNT “Boo” Halloween Images
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 diameter on the nanometer scale, making them about…
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Xinchen Ni received the Graduate Student Silver Award at the 2018 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston
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 can be found on the Materials Research Society websites…
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Abigail ‘Abby’ Nason (necstlab’s 2018 MRL Summer Scholar) is in the news again
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 new technology”. http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-summer-scholars-work-at-forefront-new-technology-09…
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“Aerospace Materials and Applications” book is published!!!
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:
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Professor Wardle to present Plenary at Composiforum, 18 June 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 edition key note speakers will attend, along with top enterprises…
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Professor Wardle to present Keynote at ICCE-26, 16 July 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 composites. Of particular concern is the challenge for materials engineers to understand…