Materials
New materials hold promise for better detection of nuclear weapons
By By Megan Fellman | 13 Sep 2011
Innovative nanoparticle purification system using magnetic fields may aid medication, diagnostics
08 Sep 2011
Concrete improvements could pave the way to greenhouse gas reductions
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 29 Aug 2011
Etch-a-sketch with superconductors
23 Aug 2011
Nano-scientists invent better etching technique
20 Aug 2011
Simply knotted: Creating every knot conceivable from silica microspheres in liquid crystals
20 Aug 2011
Scientists find way to create every imaginable knot inside liquid crystals, may help understand complexities of DNA
Effortless sailing with fluid flow cloak
By By Richard Merritt | 19 Aug 2011
A new approach to scratch resistance
17 Aug 2011
Armchair science: DNA strands that select nanotubes are first step to a practical ‘quantum wire’
12 Aug 2011
Disease-causing tangle could spawn new materials
01 Aug 2011
Pigment discovery expanding to new colours
28 Jul 2011
Graphite + water = the future of energy storage
16 Jul 2011
A combination of two ordinary materials – graphite and water – could produce energy storage systems that perform on par with lithium ion batteries, but recharge in a matter of seconds and have an almost indefinite lifespan
New material could offer hope to those with no voice
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 14 Jul 2011
MIT and Harvard researchers are developing a synthetic material to revitalize damaged vocal cords.
Solar cells that can be printed like documents devloped at MIT
11 Jul 2011
New MIT-developed materials make it possible to produce photovoltaic cells on paper or fabric, nearly as simply as printing a document.
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
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COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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