Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jifa Qi

Angela M Belcher

Paula T Hammond-Cunningham

Michael S Strano

Paula T Hammond

Pil Jin Yoo

Soo-Kwan Lee

Ki Tae Nam

Xiangnan Dang

Hyunjung Yi

Neelkanth M Bardhan

Juhyun Park

Debadyuti Ghosh

Po-Yen Chen

Geran Zhang

A composition can include a carbon nanofiber, wherein a precursor for the carbon nanofiber includes an alcohol and an aldehyde crosslinked by a primary amine. In certain embodiments, the carbon nanofiber can be biotemplated. Biotemplating enables precise control of morphology at the nanometer scale, while molecular templating allows control of carbon nanotexture and structure at the sub-nanometer scale.

Microporous carbon nanofibers

A dye-sensitized solar cell can include a plurality of a plasmon-forming nanostructures. The plasmon-forming nanostructures can include an oxide core, an inner metallic shell on a surface of the oxide core, and an outer oxide shell on a surface of the inner metallic shell.

Plasmon-enhanced dye-sensitized solar cells

An imaging probe can include a photoluminescent carbon nanostructure configured to emit a wavelength of light detectable through living tissue, and a targeting moiety including a first binding partner configured to interact with a second binding partner.

Imaging probe including nanoparticle

An efficient perovskite solar cells can be synthesized from used car batteries by using both the anodes and cathodes of car batteries as material sources for the synthesis of lead iodide perovskite materials.

Recycling car batteries for perovskite solar cells

The invention is directed toward systems and methods for the formation of two dimensional monolayer structures of ordered biomacromolecules, such as viruses, atop cohesive polyelectrolyte multilayers to create functional thin films. Methods for the formation of such thin films are disclosed that involve an interdiffusion-induced assembly process of the biomacromolecules. The inventive systems provide a general platform for the systematic incorporation and assembly of organic, biological and inorganic materials and will enable many potential technological applications such as, for example, chemical and biological sensors, power devices and catalytic membranes.

Self-assembly of macromolecules on multilayered polymer surfaces

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