Blog

Sun, 05/28/2023

The just-launched Axiom Space Ax-2 mission carried to space the radiation shielding materials prototyped by graduate student Duo Xu and Research Scientist Volodymyr Korolovych from the Boriskina Lab in collaboration with the Cosmic Shielding Corporation....

Mon, 05/15/2023

2.S990 Fiber and Textile Engineering class wrapped up their semester with a tour of AFFOA...

Wed, 05/10/2023

The Boriskina Lab has been awarded three MISTI Global Seed Fund grants for collaborative work with colleagues in Israel, Poland, and Czech...

Tue, 05/02/2023

MIT News talked to Elizabeth Wood, professor of history at MIT, co-director of the MIT-Eurasia program within MISTI; Svitlana Krasynska, program manager of MIT-Ukraine; Andrii Zahorodnii and Dima Yanovsky, MIT...

Mon, 06/14/2021

The third-place prize of the 2021 MIT Water Innovation competition was awarded to team SVETEX for developing novel smart polyethylene (PE) fibers and fabrics for the textile industry. While SVETEX materials have superior functionality (stain resistance, cooling, antibacterial, shielding, quick...

Thu, 11/05/2020

https://www.facebook.com/mitmeche/photos/a.425324910820842/3672668156086485/

MechE students Andrea Michelle Lehn, Tess Engst-Mansilla, and Aline Vargas Manriquez, together with other members of Team...

Wed, 10/07/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQVa7G415s

Bio(chemical) sensors play an outsized role in medical care, biological research, drug development, national security, and environmental monitoring, as exemplified by the current need for...

Mon, 08/24/2020

Personal Thermal Comfort
Renkun Chen, University of California, San Diego
Yi Cui, Stanford University
...

Sat, 08/01/2020

Antimicrobial & easy-care SmartPE fabrics

Conventional fabrics absorb body heat and perspiration, providing fertile ground for bacterial growth. Textile production...