The ISN is a team — MIT, the Army, and industry – working together to discover and field technologies that advance Soldier protection and survivability.
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#Mesodyne is making great strides in developing small, portable power sources to address needs of the @USArmy & other @DeptofDefense orgs. The @MIT_ISN is pleased and proud to have played a critical role in the foundational research behind these advances. @ArmyResearchLab @DoDCTO
16 Oct 2023
Tech Company Charging into Soldier Power | Story by @sdcarberry17 | #Mesodyne @MIT_ISN @AFWERX @DARPA
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Congratulations to Tomás Palacios, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at @MIT, on being named director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies! @MIT_ISN news.mit.edu/2026/tomas-pala…
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21 May 2025
Sponsored by #DoD @USArmy, the Institute for Soldier #Nanotechnologies explores the use of #nanotechnology to enable unprecedented advances in soldier protection, survivability, and mission capabilities, and is an Univ-Affiliated Research Ctr (UARC). isn.mit.edu/
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6 Nov 2024
Excited to share our efforts on placement of inertia within 3D metamaterials towards tunable elastodynamic properties at the microscale.
❓Could a single-material 3D architecture attain widely tunable dynamic properties without altering static behaviors?
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24 Oct 2024
Room-temperature nonreciprocal #HallEffect could heat up future technology development @penn_state @NatureMaterials phys.org/news/2024-10-room-t…
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1 Feb 2024
Using a #DNA-based #nanoparticle, researchers from @MIT (including @MIT_ISN), @ragoninstitute, and @WUSTLmed have created a #vaccine that provokes a strong #antibody response against SARS-CoV-2. tinyurl.com/3y3dk24d (Work funded by @NIH, @NSF #NSFfunded, and @DeptofDefense)
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1 Feb 2024
Engineers from @MIT (including @MIT_ISN) and @ArmyResearchLab have developed a new way to quickly test an array of #metamaterial architectures and their resilience to #supersonic impacts.
tinyurl.com/5bdersx6 (Work funded by @DeptofDefense)
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17 Nov 2023
Thank you @MIT_ISN for being a second home to us since day 0!
Great new paper in @Nature from @MIT & @MITMechE's @CarlosMPortela. Important research results that, through innovative characterization techniques developed, could impact a broad spectrum of S&T to come.
@DoDCTO @armyfutures @usarmy_devcom @ArmyResearchLab-funded @NNInanonews
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Great new paper in @Nature from @MIT & @MITMechE's @CarlosMPortela. Important research results that, through innovative characterization techniques developed, could impact a broad spectrum of S&T to come.
@DoDCTO @armyfutures @usarmy_devcom @ArmyResearchLab-funded @NNInanonews
Nature research paper: Dynamic diagnosis of metamaterials through laser-induced vibrational signatures go.nature.com/47tEyJQ
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15 Nov 2023
📄Full-text access via this link:
🔗: rdcu.be/drbvy
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15 Nov 2023
Last but not least, huge congrats to team members @CasimirLight , @SomuDhulipala, @rachelmsun, and J. Lem for turning this framework into reality, along with collaborators T.Pezeril and W.DeLima. Exciting path ahead in dynamics & ultrasound w/ metamaterials!
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15 Nov 2023
Leveraging the richness of responses, we demonstrate this framework as a route to quantify ‘invisible’ defects in microscopic components/materials. Two common defect types at these scales result in quantifiable defect densities in each.
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15 Nov 2023
Through wave propagation in the MHz regime, we construct partial dispersion relations that enable characterization of acoustic metamaterials, also identifying anisotropic attenuation of these waves.
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15 Nov 2023
Using laser pump/probe schemes, we extract the full (dynamic) effective elastic tensor of metamaterials, allowing a fully experimental representation of elastic surfaces as well as quantifying dynamic stiffening.
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Nature research paper: Dynamic diagnosis of metamaterials through laser-induced vibrational signatures go.nature.com/47tEyJQ
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15 Nov 2023
Can vibrational ‘fingerprints’ lead to high-throughput characterization of metamaterials?
In our work, out in @Nature today, we present a non-contact framework to rapidly characterize microscale metamaterials in the dynamic regime!
🔗: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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19 Oct 2023
Excited to share our recent collaborative work on fatigue-resistant hydrogel fibers. They can deliver light in complex in vivo environments for optogenetics-assisted pain inhibition@xinyue1liu @AnikeevaLab @ProfZhaoMIT nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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19 Oct 2023
The @SiyuanRao lab developed flexible and fatigue-resistant optical fibers made from hydrogel that allow optogenetic manipulations in the periphery in freely behaving mice.
@xinyue1liu @AnikeevaLab @ProfZhaoMIT
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20 Oct 2023
* Soft fatigue-resistant hydrogel optical fibers that reliably function in living animals for months.
* Fatigue-resistant reliable connections with other devices.
* Easy and reproducible protocol.
* The paper can be downloaded here.
rdcu.be/doZ5f
19 Oct 2023
The @SiyuanRao lab developed flexible and fatigue-resistant optical fibers made from hydrogel that allow optogenetic manipulations in the periphery in freely behaving mice.
@xinyue1liu @AnikeevaLab @ProfZhaoMIT
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Researchers from @MIT, @MSU, @UMassAmherst, @harvardmed & @NIH have developed soft and #implantable #OpticalFibers that can deliver #light to major #nerves through the body. tinyurl.com/3cz5twwm (Work funded in part by @DeptofDefense (through @MIT_ISN), @NIH & @NSF #NSFfunded)
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