Edwin Thomas, director of the institute, called the facility very labby space all very open, very configurable.

MIT enlisted three industrial partners DuPont, Raytheon and CIMIT to begin basic research on subjects such as conductive polymers, germresistant fabrics and enhanced medical sensors. Without that, its done in pieces and sometimes there are large gaps in those pieces. The six additional partners announced will royaltybased access specific to the research they work on with MIT and Army officials unveiled their new Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies 28,000squarefoot facility that marshals government, academic and industrial resources to develop new generation of equipment the average soldier will take into combat.

MIT enlisted three industrial partners DuPont, Raytheon and CIMIT to begin basic research on subjects such as conductive polymers, germresistant fabrics and enhanced medical sensors. Each team has its own space for quick collaboration about ideas and research. But in the battlefield, Thomas says, soldiers real risk is bleeding to death from wounds in his arms and legs. The second floor is home to faculty offices, computer equipment, conference room and reconfigurable meeting space for various ISN research teams.

Thomas envisions using this fabric as complement to Kevlar, to protect soldiers extremities from bullets or to create an instant splint when he is wounded. Manufacturing Finance R&D Legal Education Profiles Bio Consumer Nanotech StockDefense Energy Environment Electronics Photonics Materials Tools AutoAero Print this article Email this article Researchers have developed hollow fibers about microns wide, and filled them with hollow beads that contain magnetic particles about nanometers long. With help from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the military has finally started to cracking.

At ceremony last week, MIT and Army officials unveiled their new Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies 28,000squarefoot facility that marshals government, academic and industrial resources to develop new generation of equipment the average soldier will take into combat. Two MIT scientists already have developed nanoparticle coating for Kevlar the material DuPont makes for bulletproof vests to make its fibers waterproof and germproof. At last weeks formal opening, several hundred soldiers, scientists and business executives witnessed the first demonstrations of new materials science research that the ISN hopes to bring into reality.