MIT

MIT engineers have created a new material that was inspired by natural materials that feature the advantages of live cells and their ability to respond to their environment. This new material was demonstrated using bacterial cells that were coaxed to produce biofilms that can combine with nonliving materials.

MIT researchers have developed a new material that is two-dimensional to create devices that have the ability to harness or emit light. The material, called tungsten diselenide (WSe2), could produce ultrathin, lightweight and flexible optoelectronic devices.

A team of researchers at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) with physicians from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) developed a low-power signal-processing chip that could change the future of cochlear implants. The device would require no external hardware and would be recharged wirelessly.

Mathematicians and computer scientists have been challenged for decades by finding the most efficient way to move items across a network, but when the network has grown exponentially like the Internet, traditional methods prove problematic. A team at MIT has developed a new algorithm that reduces the time to solve these problems.