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MIT team shows flexible ligands can direct nanoparticle assembly

Home of the Macfarlane group that led the work

For about 20 years, the rule for building ordered materials from nanoparticles was to make the connector molecules rigid. Flexible links were expected to produce disorder. A team at MIT has now assembled nanoparticles by doing the opposite.

Updated Nov 2

MIT model pairs 3D crystal structures with text to help AI identify materials

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Host institution for CLaC research

MIT researchers have built a model called CLaC that reads a crystal's three-dimensional atomic arrangement alongside text descriptions. Their paper appeared in Nature Communications on August 26, and MIT News described the work on October 18.

Updated Oct 23