The findings are published this week in the journal Nature Communications by graduate students Chun-Teh Chen and Chern Chuang, professor of civil and environmental engineering Markus Buehler,
The research team also included Jianshu Cao, a professor of chemistry at MIT, Vincent Ball at the University of Strasbourg in France,
Aravinthan Samuel, a professor of physics at Harvard university, says this approach seems to be an xtremely promisingway to speed up 3-D imaging of living, moving animals,
and knowing that traditional towers could never reach high-altitude winds he designed the BAT in his free time receiving technical guidance from Institute Professor Sheila Widnall and other faculty.
if they didn t. We ve known for a very long time that the things that people do are made up of subactivities says David Forsyth a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The paper other senior author is Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute.
The MIT team, led by Michael Yaffe, the David H. Koch Professor in Science, and Paula Hammond, the David H. Koch Professor in Engineering, describe the findings in the May 8 online edition of Science Signaling. think it a harbinger of what nanomedicine can do for us in the future,
says Hammond, who is a member of MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. ee moving from the simplest model of the nanoparticle just getting the drug in there
a professor of systems biology at the Technical University of Denmark who was not part of the research team. he latter is vital,
all led by MIT Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry, and Marc Baldo, professor of electrical engineering.
In most photovoltaic (PV) materials, a photon (a packet of sunlight) delivers energy that excites a molecule,
Van Voorhis used experimental data gathered in samples specially synthesized by Baldo and Timothy Swager, MIT John D. Macarthur Professor of Chemistry.
To detect fission rates which are measured in femtoseconds (10-15 seconds) the MIT team turned to experts including Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry,
David Reichman, a professor of chemistry at Columbia University who was involved not in this research, considers the new findings very important contribution to the singlet fission literature.
Think about a range around you like five feet says Gregory Wornell the Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor in Engineering in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering
a professor of computer science and engineering and one of his two thesis advisors, and by the University of Washington Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer.
a professor of computer science of the University of Southern California. he approach of building a generative story of how people get from text to answers is a great idea.
The research team, led by professor Leona Samson, used this approach to measure DNA repair in a type of immortalized human blood cells called lymphoblastoid cells,
who is the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor, an American Cancer Society Professor, and a member of MIT departments of biological engineering and of biology, Center for Environmental Health Sciences,
A research team led by professor Michael Cima has invented an injectable device that reveals oxygen levels over several weeks
Cima the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering is the paper s senior author. Other authors are recent MIT Phd recipient Christophoros Vassiliou and recent master s degree recipient Syed Imaad.
Ralph Weissleder a professor at Harvard Medical school and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Molecular Imaging Research says this type of sensor is a novel way to potentially track how cancer patients
Akselrod and Parag Deotare professors Vladimir Bulovic and Marc Baldo and four others. This is the first direct observation of exciton diffusion processes Bulovic says showing that crystal structure can dramatically affect the diffusion process.
David Lidzey a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Sheffield who was involved not in this work calls the research a really impressive demonstration of a direct measurement of the diffusion of triplet excitons and their eventual trapping.
as well as Harvard professor Daniel Nocera. The work was supported by BP though the MIT Energy Initiative and the U s. Department of energy Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy n
Led by MIT chemical engineering professor Patrick Doyle and Lincoln Laboratory technical staff member Albert Swiston the researchers have invented a new type of tiny,
a professor of biologically inspired engineering at Harvard university who was involved not in the research. here are several striking features of this work,
says Roberto Rigobon, the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of management,
says Alberto Cavallo, a professor at MIT Sloan, and another co-author of the paper. ee finding those things don seem to matter relative to the retailer showing prices in the same currency.
Along with Cavallo and Rigobon, the study was conducted by Brent Neiman, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of business.
Gita Gopinath, an economics professor at Harvard university, calls the work terrific paperthat adds new information to the field. hat we did not know,
Other authors are Institute Professor Phillip Sharp; Tyler Jacks director of the Koch Institute; postdoc Sidi Chen;
written by MIT graduate student Yichen Shen, professor of physics Marin Soljacic, and four others. e are excited about this,
John Pendry, a professor at Imperial College London who was connected not to this research, calls this an ngenious application. n a macroscopic scale this is equivalent to observing the world through a set of louvers that allow light to enter from one direction only,
John Joannopoulos, the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics; and Dexin Ye of Zhejiang University in China.
Sebastian Seung, a former MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and physics who is now at Princeton university,
says Constance Cepko, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school. Previous efforts have focused on analyzing only a small number of cell types at a time,
the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical engineering and leader of the MIT research team. hey repair themselves, theye environmentally stable outside,
a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in the research. he authors nicely show that self-assembling nanoparticles can be used to enhance the photosynthetic capacity of plants,
We re excited about soft robots for a variety of reasons says Daniela Rus a professor of computer science
Video Melanie Gonick All of our algorithms and control theory are designed pretty much with the idea that we ve got rigid systems with defined joints says Barry Trimmer a biology professor at Tufts University who specializes in biomimetic soft robots.
the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research in MIT Department of biology. his study couldn have been done five to 10 years ago.
a professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical school and Massachusetts General Hospital. ur knowledge about the abundance of extracellular matrix proteins in tumors has been limited.
The technology developed by MIT professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Sangeeta Bhatia relies on nanoparticles that interact with tumor proteins called proteases each
When we invented this new class of synthetic biomarker we used a highly specialized instrument to do the analysis says Bhatia the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical engineering and Computer science.
Howard A. Stone a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this research calls this a very interesting paper
the better, says Darrell Irvine, a professor of biological engineering and of materials science and engineering, and the senior author of the paper.
a professor of dermatology at University Hospital Zurich who was not part of the research team. oth the effect on the stimulated immune responses
a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of California at Irvine. obotic measurements will help us identify promising treatments with smaller numbers of patients
the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical engineering and corresponding author on the new paper. r you could imagine a smart pillow,
Under the tutelage of Frans Kaashoek the Charles A. Piper Professor of Computer science and Engineering Arnold started developing Ksplice for his graduate thesis
says Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a principal investigator of the study,
along with Katherine Baicker, a professor at the Harvard School of Public health. The study, which is being published today in the journal Science,
Amitabh Chandra, an economist and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who has read the paper, praises the study as xemplary social science,
Researchers in the Optical and Quantum Communications Group which is led by Jeffrey Shapiro the Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical engineering
which is also impressive says John Howell a professor of physics at the University of Rochester.
says Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT and senior author of the study,
Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this work,
and an MK2 inhibitor could be very effective says Michael Yaffe the David H. Koch Professor in Science
and potentially useful approach for others to use says Titia de Lange a professor of cell biology
a professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute who was involved not in this research,
Patrick Doyle, the Singapore Research Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT, is the senior author of the paper.
says Patrick Tabeling, a professor at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris,
Senior authors of the new paper are Stephen Lippard the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Shana
Kelley a professor of biochemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Toronto. Lead authors are Simon Wisnovsky who received his Phd from the University of Toronto and MIT alumnus Justin Wilson Phd 13.
The new targeted molecule is designed an elegantly platinum complex says Paul Dyson a professor of chemistry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne who was not part of the research team.
Victor Galitski, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland who was involved not in this research,
the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT. hat pretty much a description of what the ankle is.
Eric Perreault, a professor of biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University, says the group findings present the first insight into how muscle activation alters the ankle mechanical properties over its normal range of motion,
Ten years ago MIT researchers led by Susumu Tonegawa the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience created mice lacking the gene for calcineurin in the forebrain;
Other authors are Heydar Davoudi and Matthew Wilson the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and a member of the Picower Institute.
says Frans Kaashoek, the Charles A. Piper Professor in the Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science (EECS).
and identified every undefined behavior that he and his coauthors Kaashoek and his fellow EECS professors Nickolai Zeldovich and Armando Solar-Lezama imagined that a programmer might ever inadvertently invoke.
Such a system could be used to monitor patients who are at high risk for blood clots says Sangeeta Bhatia senior author of the paper and the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical engineering and Computer science.
co-authored by Loose, Lucchino, MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, and other researchers. Based on Loose work at MIT,
and professor of materials science and engineering Michael Demkowicz. e had to go back and check, Demkowicz says, when nstead of extending,
William Gerberich, a professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota who was involved not in this research,
when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus,
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of CSAIL. e just needed a creative insight
and Vannevar bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus, have developed a tiny microfluidic device that can analyze the behavior of blood from sickle cell disease patients.
a professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineering at Caltech who was involved not in this study. The researchers have filed a patent on the device to further its development for diagnostic use,
To do that, her team made use of novel fiber-fabrication technology pioneered by MIT professor of materials science
John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering and of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this research
the Picower Professor of Neuroscience in MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, showed that two very different genetic causes of autism
says Essess cofounder Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical engineering,
Elazer Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and a member of IMES, is also a senior author of the paper.
Nearby, J. Kim Vandiver, mechanical engineering professor and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, helped his wife, Kathy Vandiver, community outreach education and engagement director at the Center for Environmental Health Sciences
who collaborated closely with Institute Professor Harold ocedgerton in the 1970s, founded the Edgerton Center in 1992 as a legacy to Edgerton belief in the power of earning by doing.
He is a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and also served as a lieutenant in the U s army Corps of Engineers in Vietnam in 1970-1971.
Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, says the ability to tune friction would be helpful in developing nanomachines tiny robots built from components the size of single molecules.
a professor of physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany, sees the results as a lear breakthroughin gaining insight into therwise inaccessible fundamental physics.
the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical engineering, use an inductor, which is a wire wound into a coil.
says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a cofounder of 24m (and previously a cofounder of battery company A123).
and colleagues including W. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials science and engineering. In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
the Power Sources paper was authored co by graduate student Brandon Hopkins, mechanical engineering professor Alexander Slocum, and Kyle Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
with the late MIT professor David Staelin before coming to VMS as a mentor in 2007.
Invented by Microchips Biotech cofounders Michael Cima, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering, and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, the microchips consist of hundreds of pinhead-sized reservoirs,
each capped with a metal membrane, that store tiny doses of therapeutics or chemicals. An electric current delivered by the device removes the membrane,
The concept is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied materials and Interfaces by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Ian W. Hunter, doctoral student Seyed M. Mirvakili,
says Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics in MIT Department of Mechanical engineering, ut it may not be needed for very long.
and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,
The team also included Phd student Mehr Negar Mirvakili and professors Peter Englezos and John Madden, all from the University of British columbia s
says Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane('72) Professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT. One approach calls for using water rather than natural gas as the source of the hydrogen molecules needed for key chemical reactions in the refining process.
Ghoniem and William Green, the Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT, have been working to close gaps in the fundamental knowledge about the chemistry involved as SCW
the two lead authors, are former postdocs in the laboratory of Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
Other cofounders and co-inventors are Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical engineering, now chair of CEI technical advisory board;
This is the first time that graphene has been made magnetic this way said Jing Shi a professor of physics
new tool for medical imaging,"says Prasad, also a SUNY Distinguished Professor of chemistry, physics, medicine and electrical engineering at UB."
Led by materials science Associate professor Michael Arnold and Professor Padma Gopalan, the team has reported the highest-performing carbon nanotube transistors ever demonstrated.
Professor Zhiyong Fan and his group from Hong kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reported novel nanobowl optical concentrator fabricated on low-cost aluminum foil
The novel nanobowl optical concentrator developed by Professor Zhiyong Fan can largely enhance the optical absorption in the active layer of organic solar cell
The development of the novel nanobowl optical concentrator and its application on OPV were a collaborative effort involving Professors in Department of chemistry of HKUST including Professor Shihe Yang
and Professor He (Henry) Yan who are working on cutting-edge researches about organic photovoltaics. The research project was supported by General Research Funds from Hong kong Research Grants Council and Hong kong Innovation Technology Commission.
The UCD team led by Conway Fellows Professor Gil Lee in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor Walter Kolch in Systems Biology Ireland synthesised nanorods with a long iron segment coated with polyethylene glycol
and a short gold tip coated with single layer of the protein heregulin (HRG). HRG is a growth factor that binds to
In the recent past a team of Princeton professors including Mcalpine created a bionic ear out of living cells with an embedded antenna that could receive radio signals.
All conclusions made based on the X-ray studies were confirmed further using atomic-resolution microscopy in the group of Professor Robert Klie of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A paper describing this discovery by a research team led by John V. Badding a professor of chemistry at Penn State was published in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Nature Materials.
James Caruthers Purdue's Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Professor of Chemical engineering; Jeanmarie Nedelec a researcher from Clermont Universit in France;
The doctoral student in the research group of Professor Wolfgang Ensinger in the Department of Material Analysis is working on making nanotubes of gold.
"says the TU professor, combining the two mottos:""Green meets Nano meets Life
#Uniform nanowire arrays for science and manufacturing Defect-free nanowires with diameters in the range of 100 nanometers (nm) hold significant promise for numerous in demand applications including printable
A research team headed by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials science and engineering at KAIST provides an easier methodology to realize high performance flexible electronics by using the Inorganic-based Laser Lift off (ILLO.
Professor Lee said By selecting an optimized set of inorganic exfoliation layer and substrate a nanoscale process at a high temperature of over 1000c can be utilized for high performance flexible electronics.
and protein diagnostic devices into every single doctor's office said Stuart Lindsay an ASU physics professor and director of Biodesign's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics.
Working with Dunn in this study are Donglu Shi professor of materials science engineering in UC's College of Engineering and Applied science;
The researchers led by Professor Joel K. W. Yang at A*STAR (the Agency for Science Technology
Coe-Sullivan, then a Phd student in electrical engineering and computer science, was working with Bulovic and students of Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor in Chemistry,
Kun Yan Zhu professor of entomology; Xin Zhang research associate in the Division of Biology;
-and hold enough energy to run your watch for a long period of time said Michel Barsoum Phd Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering.
This development was facilitated by collaboration between research groups of Yury Gogotsi Phd Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering at Drexel and Jieshan Qiu vice dean for research
U. of I. professor of electrical and computer engineering who co-led the study along with UW-Madison professor Justin Williams."We can guide,
accelerate and measure the process of neuron growth, all at once.""The team published the results in the journal ACS Nano."
Williams, a professor of biomedical engineering at UW-Madison.""Without this we may have noticed an overall increase in growth rates,
So we spoke to Professor Duncan Graham a UK-based nanoscientist from University of Strathclyde
The technical definition is that a nanoparticle is an object that is less than 100 nanometres wide along one of its edges Professor Graham told us.
Professor Graham is perplexed somewhat by the recent media hubub. It's been quite challenging to work out
In Professor Graham's view there are two serious hurdles for nanotechnologists to overcome before particle-based biosensing becomes a reality:
Professor Graham's'take-home'message is that it's a mistake to see Google as the only organisation focusing on nanotechnology to detect disease it's a vibrant active field with incredible potential but still in its early days.
Gary Rubloff director of the Maryland Nanocenter and a professor in the Department of Materials science and engineering and in the Institute for Systems Research;
Sang Bok Lee a professor in the Department of chemistry and Biochemisty and the Department of Materials science and engineering;
"says Luke Lee, the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley. Lee and Alex Zettl, a physicist who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division
and produce the first commercial scanners early next year, says cofounder Ling Zang, a professor of materials science and engineering and senior author of a study of the technology published online Nov 4 in the journal
and monitor the current through the nanotube,"says Zang, a professor with USTAR, the Utah Science Technology and Research economic development initiative."
Chief Investigator Ken Crozier a professor of Physics and Electronic engineering at the University of Melbourne said Up until now there were two competing theories surrounding
Professor Crozier said This work is important for engineers and scientists working in the nanomaterial industry y
Professor Paola Borri from the School of Biosciences, who led the study, said:""This new imaging modality opens the exciting prospect of following complex cellular trafficking pathways quantitatively with important applications in drug delivery.
Danny Porath, the Etta and Paul Schankerman Professor in Molecular Biomedicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reports reproducible and quantitative measurements of electricity flow through long molecules made of four
Miquel Salmeron a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division (MSD) and professor in UC Berkeley's Materials science and engineering Department explains this in the context of a battery.
Hersam a professor of materials science engineering chemistry and medicine at Northwestern University has developed a method to separate nanomaterials by size
Paul Weiss distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of UCLA's California Nanosystems Institute developed the method for producing the nanoribbons with Patrick Han and Taro Hitosugi professors at the Advanced Institute
For quantum computing to become a reality we need to operate the bits with very low error rates says Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak who is Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW where the devices were made.
The purified silicon was provided through collaboration with Professor Kohei Itoh from Keio University in Japan.
The research which has been published in the journal Small drew on the medical expertise of Dr Neil Smyth and Dr Michael Ardern-Jones as well as contributions from physicist Professor Otto Muskens.
Liu's research article co-authored by eight others including Professors Frank Gu and Lyndon Jones from Waterloo recently appeared in Nano Research the leading publication on nanotechnology and nanoscience e
"said Professor Steve Evans, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.
'and was used the technique by Professor Evans and his team in this research. The ability to controllably'write
"explained Professor Evans. Aside from biological applications, this area of research could revolutionise renewable energy production. Working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield,
Professor Evans and his team have all of the membrane proteins required to construct a fully working mimic of the way plants capture sunlight.
Professor Evans concludes:""This is part of the emerging field of synthetic biology, whereby engineering principles are being applied to biological parts
"says Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel (TU Wien). His team has succeeded now in breaking this symmetry of emission using gold nanoparticles coupled to ultra-thin glass fibres.
This is an exciting breakthrough in nanomedicine said IBN Executive director Professor Jackie Y. Ying. A key challenge in chemotherapy is ensuring that the drugs are delivered only to the tumor
The motors could also be operated in significantly higher temperatures than the present ones says Professor Juha Pyrh nen who has led the design of the prototype at LUT.
Consequently finding a more efficient material to replace the copper conductors would lead to major changes in the industry tells Professor Pyrh nen.
scaling up the production capacity together with improving the yarn performance will facilitate major steps in the future believes Business Development Manager Dr. Marcin Otto from Teijin Aramid agreeing with Professor Pyrhnen.
a professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois."Our current understanding of nanoscale thermal transport isn't nuanced enough to quantitatively predict
and professor at Northern Illinois University but what was missing was a partnership between people that have the know-how at a lab a university and a company.
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