Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered new ways to use complex geometry to make strong, lightweight shapes that might be useful as structural materials for airplanes, ...

A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material, a ...

The isolated symmetry points of photonic graphene are unstable in three dimensions. Researchers have now proposed topologically robust points by using minimal surfaces and employing symmetry-breaking ...

Polymer scientists recently announced that they have solved a longstanding mystery surrounding a nanoscale structure, formed by collections of molecules, called a double-gyroid. This shape is one of ...

The latest innovation in manufacturing by 3D Printing has been the creation of light weight, high strength material structures called ‘Gyroids’. Researchers, scientists and engineers at the MIT ...

Making big things out of the world's strongest material has been the goal of materials engineers for the past few years. A team at MIT has figured out a way to do it, but along the way they made ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Polymer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the journal Nature Communications that they have solved a longstanding mystery surrounding a ...