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Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
its simplicity,” he says. The team also included MIT graduate student Georgios Varnavides, postdoc ... researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... biomedical applications. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg The tiny coils in the fiber developed by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-%E2%80%9Cmuscles%E2%80%9D-achieve-powerful-pulling-forceSystem provides cooling with no electricity
a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ... magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do exactly that. The device, ... below the ambient air temperature. MIT-Aerogel-Cooling-03-1024.jpg In field tests, the performance of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityNew microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation
MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang; visiting research scientist Ryuichi Iwata; professor of mechanical ... industrial processes. Now, for the first time, a new microscopy technique developed at MIT and elsewhere ... efficient surfaces for a variety of such processes. MIT-Nucleation-Distribution1024.jpg Many different ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-technique-reveals-details-droplet-nucleation“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
these materials. “This allows us to attain high velocities with small applied forces,” says MIT graduate ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ... surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themPrintable electronics
MIT-Printed-Electronics-1-1024.jpg MIT researchers have fabricated a stamp made from forests of carbon nanotubes that is able to ... Engineers at MIT have invented a fast, precise printing process that may make such electronic surfaces an ... Technology and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the team’s stamping process should be able to print ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-electronicsHow to assess new solar technologies
by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ... question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
which appears in the Oct. 10 issue of Science Advances. Sebastien Uzel, a former MIT graduate student, ... States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DCoatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces
MIT graduate student, and Ahmad Rafsanjani, a former postdoc at Harvard University. Inspired by art ... Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... especially among the elderly, the researchers say. MIT-Shoe-Grip-01-PRESS_1024.jpg MIT researchers drew on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesControlling bubble formation on electrodes
described today in the journal Joule, in a paper by MIT visiting scholar Ryuichi Iwata, graduate student ... bubbles that can block or clog the reactive surfaces. Now, a study at MIT has for the first time analyzed ... resistant to blockage by larger bubbles. MIT-Water-Splitting-1024jpg.jpg This image shows the interplay ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-bubble-formation-electrodesA droplet walks into an electric field …
cause the droplet to burst apart, creating a fine, electrified mist. MIT ... droplet has always been an involved mathematical task. Now, MIT researchers have found that the conditions ... simulations to assess the stability of an electrified droplet,” says lead author Justin Beroz, a graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplet-walks-electric-field-%E2%80%A6Speedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ... (ICRA). His MIT co-authors include postdoc Hongmin Kim, graduate student Elijah Stanger-Jones, Menglong ... scratch for another chance at a prize. MIT_Reflex-Grip-02-PRESS.jpg The research team, from left to right: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
MIT-Polymer-1.jpg A scanning transmission electron micrograph (STEM) of the polymer material shows its division into ... Photo by: Asli Ugur Now researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have explained how ... the difficulty in explaining how they work, says Asli Ugur, an MIT postdoc and lead author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersTunneling Across a Tiny Gap
blurred,” says Vazrik Chiloyan, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering. “We’re trying to come up ... gaps. Now researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University have developed a model ... MIT-Heat-Transfer 1024.jpg This illustration depicts phonons "tunneling" from one lattice of sodium ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunneling-across-tiny-gapBig Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores
keep cells healthy and stable. Now researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of ... cells. MIT-Graphene-Pores 1024.jpg Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Each graphene pore is less than ... says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-range-behaviors-tiny-graphene-poresSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug ... diluted and injected intravenously. MIT-slippery-syringe-02-press-1024.jpg Researchers designed a system ... Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsWhere to Grab Space Debris
control it.” Joining Saenz-Otero on the paper are lead author Brent Tweddle, who was an MIT graduate ... a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-grab-space-debrisSenior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing
Senatus will graduate from MIT in January 2016, and she eventually plans to return to Haiti, where she ... time at MIT, where her curiosity about how things work and enthusiasm for hands-on discovery have ... continued to motivate her. MIT-Larissa-Senatus-1024.jpg Photo by Ian MacLellan Senatus grew up in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/senior-larissa-senatus-learns-about-world-doingWhen to get your head out of the game
athletes. Now an MIT-invented tool is aiding in detecting and diagnosing concussions, in real-time. ... MIT-Jolt_1024.jpg Photo by Rob Chron In 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine estimated that each year ... head injuries as a national epidemic. Last October, MIT alumnus Ben Harvatine ’12 — who suffered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-get-your-head-out-gameKripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
coming to MIT as a graduate student to earn his masters and doctoral degrees. “IIT Madras taught me the ... about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... laboratory to consumer and industrial markets. MIT-Varanasi-1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark LiquiGlide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesResearchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
A team of MIT researchers has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open ... are published today in Science Advances. MIT-Sweat-Wearables-01-1024.jpg This breathable workout suit ... these living cells,” says Wen Wang, the paper’s lead author and a former research scientist in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-moisture-responsive-workout-suit