MIT.nano is an open-access, service-oriented facility, located in the heart of MIT, with the purpose of exploring nanotechnology. “Any faculty member, researcher, and student—as well as qualified users from industry, academia, and government—may bring a project or unsolved problem to our specialized environments and conduct their work supported by highly qualified technical staff.” Along with providing state-of-the-art equipment, MIT.nano allows for many connections as it is a place for electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and physicists to work alongside biologists, materials scientists, chemists, software engineers, artists, and more.
But what’s even more remarkable is the advanced research facilities at MIT.nano. The facility encompasses more than 100,000 square feet of cleanroom and other advanced research space. The primary facilities include a fabrication facility, a characterization facility, and an immersion lab for investigations in AR/VR. Additionally, on the living side of things, there are about 90+ faculty, 121 students, postdoctoral associates, and research staff participating.
Some recent research breakthroughs that have occurred at the MIT.nano include:
- MIT Researchers have developed microparticles that can be tuned to deliver their payload at different time points, which could be used to create “self-boosting” vaccines (July 2022)
- MIT Engineers design surfaces that can make water boil more efficiently (July 2022)
- MIT Researches discover a “magical” graphene structure that allows for a superconductive state where electrical current can flow with zero energy loss (July 2022)
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