CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A team of MIT engineers has identified two key physical processes that lend spider silk its unrivaled strength and durability, bringing closer to reality the long-sought goal of ...
MIT says the two-dimensional nature of the polymer gives it strength not typically associated with plastic. An MIT dean sees the new two-dimensional polymer as appropriate for “applications where high ...
A team of engineers from NASA’s Ames Research Center (Moutain View, Calif., U.S.) and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.) have built and tested an airplane wing ...