The boiling of water is at the heart of many industrial processes, from the operation of electric power plants to chemical processing and desalination. But the details of what happens on a…
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MIT’s new design tool lets novices customize 3Dprinting in minutes
Researchers at MIT and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel aim to change the time consuming design process, with a new system that automatically turns CAD files into visual models that users…
Metallic gels produce tunable light emission
Researchers at MIT have developed a family of materials that can emit light of precisely controlled colors — even pure white light — and whose output can be tuned to respond to…
MIT’s “MultiFab” 3-D printer can print 10 materials at once
In recent years, companies have been working with “multi-material” 3-D printers that can fabricate many different functional items. Such printers, however, have traditionally been limited to three materials at a time, can…
Unusual magnetic behavior observed at a material interface
An exotic kind of magnetic behavior, driven by the mere proximity of two materials, has been analyzed by a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere using a technique called spin-polarized neutron…