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Workshop tackles a critical gap slowing the development of new hardware technologies

“MIT, RPI, and SUNY convene a national conversation on semiconductor tech translation and hard-tech startups. A growing gap in the transition of inventions from research labs to market is slowing the development and scale-up of new hardware technologies in the …

Making quantum circuits more robust

“Researchers have developed a technique for making quantum computing more resilient to noise, which boosts performance. Quantum computing continues to advance at a rapid pace, but one challenge that holds the field back is mitigating the noise that plagues quantum …

Seeing an elusive magnetic effect through the lens of machine learning

“An MIT team incorporates AI to facilitate the detection of an intriguing materials phenomenon that can lead to electronics without energy dissipation. Superconductors have long been considered the principal approach for realizing electronics without resistivity. In the past decade, a …

Computational modeling guides development of new materials

“Chemical engineers use neural networks to discover the properties of metal-organic frameworks, for catalysis and other applications. Metal-organic frameworks, a class of materials with porous molecular structures, have a variety of possible applications, such as capturing harmful gases and catalyzing …

How to clean solar panels without water

“A new cleaning method could remove dust on solar installations in water-limited regions, improving overall efficiency. Solar power is expected to reach 10 percent of global power generation by the year 2030, and much of that is likely to be …

Physicists find direct evidence of strong electron correlation in a 2D material for the first time

“The discovery could help researchers engineer exotic electrical states such as unconventional superconductivity. In recent years, physicists have discovered materials that are able to switch their electrical character from a metal to an insulator, and even to a superconductor, which …

Physicists steer chemical reactions by magnetic fields and quantum interference

“Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions. This is traditionally done using temperature and chemical catalysts, or more recently with external fields (electric or magnetic …

Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound

“A method for stabilizing the interfaces in solid-state lithium-ion batteries opens new possibilities. In the endless quest to pack more energy into batteries without increasing their weight or volume, one especially promising technology is the solid-state battery. In these batteries …

A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water

“The material could replace rare metals and lead to more economical production of carbon-neutral fuels. An electrochemical reaction that splits apart water molecules to produce oxygen is at the heart of multiple approaches aiming to produce alternative fuels for transportation …

More sensitive X-ray imaging

“Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could allow a tenfold signal enhancement. Scintillators are materials that emit light when bombarded with high-energy particles or X-rays. In medical or dental X-ray systems, they …