MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

The ISN is a team — MIT, the Army, and industry – working together to discover and field technologies that advance Soldier protection and survivability.

[MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies @MIT_ISN]

#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

[National Defense @NationalDefense]

Tech Company Charging into Soldier Power | Story by @sdcarberry17 | #Mesodyne @MIT_ISN @AFWERX @DARPA

[MIT.nano @mit_nano]

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 https://t.co/TlTbub6NuX

[NNI @NNInanonews]

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). https://t.co/KleVNNw4fo

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

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?
https://t.co/LSRMOMVWTx

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

Room-temperature nonreciprocal #HallEffect could heat up future technology development @penn_state @NatureMaterials https://t.co/fsep2t98Nt

[NNI @NNInanonews]

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. https://t.co/J0hZnYNsrr (Work funded by @NIH, @NSF #NSFfunded, and @DeptofDefense)

[NNI @NNInanonews]

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.
https://t.co/QjtDgZK8LR (Work funded by @DeptofDefense)

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

Thank you @MIT_ISN for being a second home to us since day 0!

[MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies @MIT_ISN]

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 @Nature]

Nature research paper: Dynamic diagnosis of metamaterials through laser-induced vibrational signatures https://t.co/kvcc1HTfXY

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

📄Full-text access via this link:
🔗: https://t.co/04oAey86v4

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

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!

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

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.

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

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.

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

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.

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Dynamic diagnosis of metamaterials through laser-induced vibrational signatures https://t.co/kvcc1HTfXY

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

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!
🔗: https://t.co/l8HTUKFace

@MITMechE @MIT

[Siyuan Rao @SiyuanRao]

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 https://t.co/a1WAEhLi3o

[Nature Methods @naturemethods]

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
https://t.co/yduDHAHhcb

[Xuanhe Zhao @ProfZhaoMIT]

* 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.
https://t.co/8uCOI5S0QJ

[NNI @NNInanonews]

Researchers from @MIT, @MSU, @UMassAmherst, @harvardmed & @NIH have developed soft and #implantable #OpticalFibers that can deliver #light to major #nerves through the body. https://t.co/XDT8HmQfFd (Work funded in part by @DeptofDefense (through @MIT_ISN), @NIH & @NSF #NSFfunded)