A. John Hart

Materials key to important applications in aerospace and energy generation must be able to withstand extreme conditions such as high temperatures without failing. Now a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used today in such applications.

A DARPA-funded collaborative multi-university team pursues new AI-enhanced design tools and high-throughput testing methods for next-generation turbomachinery.

Carbon nanotubes that are prone to tangle like spaghetti can use a little special sauce to realize their full potential.

Scientists have developed an acid-based solvent that simplifies carbon nanotube processing in a way that's less toxic and easy to scale up for industrial applications.

Engineers subjected Oreo cookies to rigorous materials tests to get to the center of a tantalizing question: Why does the cookie's cream stick to just one wafer when twisted apart?

A new woody composite engineered by an MIT team is tough as bone and hard as aluminum, and might pave way for naturally derived plastics.

For the past decade MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has supported interdisciplinary collaborations and high-risk, high-reward projects, enabling MIT faculty to pursue groundbreaking research that addresses some of the world's most pressing challenges facing our water and food systems.

MIT engineers subjected Oreo cookies to rigorous materials tests to get to the center of a tantalizing question: Why does the cookie's cream stick to just one wafer when twisted apart?

The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics. The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its microscopic cells. A single wood cell wall is constructed from fibers of cellulose ­— nature's most abundant polymer, and the main struct