We measure the future in nanometers. Set in the heart of campus in the Lisa T. Su Building, we're MIT's open-access center for nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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Congratulations to @MIT professor of physics Pablo Jarillo-Herrero on winning The 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for "foundational work that established the field of twistronics." @MIT_Physics @KavliPrize @RLEatMIT news.mit.edu/2026/pablo-jari…
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By using a thin layer of diamond to manage excessive heat, researchers can boost the speed and energy-efficiency of next-generation wireless devices. Device fabrication and microscopy were conducted, in part, at MIT.nano! news.mit.edu/2026/improving-…
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Extracting lithium from hard rock is an energy- and waste-intensive process. Now, researchers from @MIT and elsewhere have developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the most common type of lithium-bearing mineral. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-resear…
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MIT President Kornbluth and MA Governor Healey announced plans for the new Quantum Systems Lab at @MIT, which will accelerate development of next-generation quantum technologies to enable the commonwealth to remain a national hub for quantum innovation. news.mit.edu/2026/new-labora…
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"@MIT teaches you to think deeply. It also teaches you to build. To test ideas. And over time, you start believing you can solve problems that once felt impossible." – @LisaSu ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94. news.mit.edu/2026/commenceme…
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As part of #BOSTechWeek, attendees at MIT.nano heard from the hard-tech VC @engineventures; MIT.nano's accelerator program, START.nano; a current START.nano member, @SiTration; and from NEMC and @Mass_Tech about other programs supporting hard-tech ventures in the region.
ALT A group of people gather at MIT.nano.
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D. Pillis SM ' 24 (@MIT_alumni) first learned about the MIT.nano Immersion Lab during his time as a grad student at the @medialab. Now faculty at @EmersonCollege, he brings his students to @MIT each semester to create their own virtual productions. news.mit.edu/2026/bridging-r…
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“Quantum computing is real, it’s happening, and it’s going to take time,” says @MIT_Physics Prof. Will Oliver. He adds that, in the future, we will be using quantum computers "to better understand, from a scientific standpoint, the world around us." scientificamerican.com/artic…
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That there is tremendous potential for nanotechnology to transform cancer detection and treatment is a vision that has guided faculty at the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine (@KI_Nanomedicine) through its first 10 years. news.mit.edu/2026/big-stride…
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Held at MIT.nano, nanoLab is an initiative of the MIT- @TecdeMonterrey Program in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology – a multidisciplinary collaboration between Tec & @MIT launched in 2014. “It’s really exciting to be here,” said Tec student Hazzel Fernández. global.mit.edu/news-stories/…
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MIT engineers developed a way to generate 3D photonic devices with nanoscale features, by shrinking them after fabrication. In their new study, they created devices in a variety of shapes, including helices and a shape inspired by the wing of a butterfly. news.mit.edu/2026/powerful-s…
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Camille Cunin @MIT PhD ’26 is transforming rigid circuitry into stretchable, signal-amplifying devices built for real-world biomedical use. news.mit.edu/2026/solving-ha…
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A new technique developed by researchers from @MIT and Lincoln Laboratory (@MITLL) helps scientists measure a phenomenon that can cause quantum circuits to perform differently than expected, increasing the error in computations. news.mit.edu/2026/improving-…
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Ribosomes, the cellular machines that assemble proteins, are made from dozens of proteins and RNA molecules. Putting all of those pieces together is a complex puzzle — one that @MITBiology Associate Professor Joey Davis PhD ’10 revels in trying to solve. news.mit.edu/2026/biologist-…
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A new study from @MIT researchers could help enable next-generation lidar sensors that are compact, durable, and have no moving parts. The key advance is a novel design for a silicon-photonics chip, which is a semiconductor device that manipulates light. news.mit.edu/2026/photonics-…
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Each year, 1,500 researchers rely on 200 tools at MIT.nano to pursue experiments that span @MIT’s disciplines, generating 160,000 hours of work across 88,000 instances of tool use. Read about the operational framework behind this dynamic facility. news.mit.edu/2026/powering-1…
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Congrats to @MIT postdoc Kaidong Peng, PhD '23, on receiving the inaugural Dennis Grimard Distinguished User Award recognizing MIT.nano facility users who go beyond standard expectations to meaningfully improve the facility and the broader user community. mitnano.mit.edu/dennis-grima…
ALT Dennis Grimard, Prof. Kevin O'Brien, Kaidong Peng, and MIT.nano Director Prof. Vladimir Bulović pose outside MIT.nano's cleanroom. Peng holds an 8" wafer etched with a photo of the MIT Dome and the text "Dennis Grimard Distinguished User Award, MIT.nano, April 30, 2026."
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A new cluster tool at MIT.nano introduces capabilities that will allow researchers to continue advancements in the performance of qubits, the minuscule building blocks of the quantum computer. news.mit.edu/2026/materials-…
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MIT researchers found a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics: under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused “pencil beam.” This could enable a fast, high-resolution bioimaging method. news.mit.edu/2026/self-organ…
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MIT researchers’ fabrication technique produces soft, microscopic structures with magnetically activated moving parts that could be the basis for soft, microscopic, magnetically responsive robots and materials. The work was conducted, in part, at MIT.nano! news.mit.edu/2026/microscopi…
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