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Professor Markus Buehler and members of Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics create regenerated silk material with higher strength and the ability to hold new shapes

November 9, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]McAfee Professor of Engineering and head of CEE Markus Buehler, postdoc Shengjie Ling and research scientist Zhao Qin created reconstituted silk that has higher strength and can be formed into new shapes and structures that are […]

Research from Professor Markus Buehler and Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics shows functionalized graphene changes shape in response to heat

October 6, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]New research from McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Professor Markus Buehler, along with research scientist Zhao Qin and postdoctoral associate Chun-Teh Chen, on thin layers of functionalized graphene that folds and unfolds into predetermined […]

CEE designs new lightweight material that can be 10 times stronger than steel

January 6, 2017 | News | ceemit

[fusion_text]CEE doctoral student Gang Seob Jung, Min Jeong Kang MEng ’16, research scientist Zhao Qin and McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler have designed a sponge-like material that is both strong and lightweight, […]

Bone-inspired Materials by Design

June 8, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

MIT engineers in collaboration with colleagues from Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy are achieving functional diversity in materials by combining a few pure components as building blocks to create diverse structures. The researchers selected bone to […]

IJAM Paper receives accolades

May 3, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

Research Scientist Zhao Qin and McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler received a Most Cited Paper Award for their co-authored paper, “Robustness-Strength Performance of Hierarchical Alpha-Helical Protein Filaments” published in the International Journal […]

RSI summer student Kristine Zhang selected as finalist in competitive program

August 10, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

A Research Science Institute (RSI) summer high school student, Kristine Zhang from Saratoga, CA, working in collaboration with CEE’s Department Head Markus Buehler and lab members GangSeob Jung, Zhao Qin ’13, and Francisco Martin Martinez, achieved […]

Art and Science of Spider Webs

November 17, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

In their recent presentation at the MIT Museum, “Reverberations: Spiders and Musical Webs,” Professor Markus Buehler and Tomás Saraceno, Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, discussed their research in materials and […]

Graphene Wrinkles Not a Problem

October 30, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

Graphene’s exceptional mechanical and electronic properties make it a perfect candidate for applications such as flexible electronics and supercapacitors for energy storage, but its single-atom thickness also means it wrinkles easily, which could affect its ability […]