MIT Professor Emeritus Bernhardt Wuensch, a pioneer in solid-state ionics and materials science education, is remembered for his thoughtful scholarship and grace in teaching and mentoring.
A new way to detect radiation involving cheap ceramics could lead to plethora of new applications, including better detectors for nuclear materials at ports.
MIT physicists coaxed superconductivity and more from quasicrystals. The work introduces a flexible platform for making the enigmatic materials that could jump-start interest in the field and allow new studies of exotic phenomena.
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.