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Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ... of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior ... Nature Biomedical Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Hyunwoo Yuk and postdoc Jingjing Wu are the lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quicklyNew Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. MIT-Electric-Therapy_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ... Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology The device, about the size of a U.S. dollar coin, is designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyStartup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts
printing prototypes and small batches of metal parts. MIT-Desktop-Metal-1024.jpg Desktop Metal co-founders ... (seated left to right): Ric Fulop, CEO and co-founder; A. John Hart, MIT professor; Jonah Myerberg, CTO; ... (standing left to right): Yet Ming-Chiang, MIT professor; Chris Schuh, MIT professor; Ely Sachs, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-uses-3-d-printing-reinvent-production-metal-partsEngineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces
printed from solid, relatively inflexible material. MIT-Printed-Meshes-02-1024.jpg 3-D meshes are designed ... to be lightweight and conformable, similar to fabric and textiles. Image: M. Scott Brauer Now MIT ... Sebastian Pattinson, who conducted the research as a postdoc at MIT. Pattinson, now on the faculty at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-flexible-mesh-ankle-and-knee-bracesUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsWhat will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?
impacts compare to traditional land-based mining — are currently unknown. Now oceanographers at MIT, the ... engineering at MIT. “Our study is the first of its kind on these midwater plumes, and can be a major ... team’s study appears today in Nature Communications: Earth and Environment. Peacock’s co-authors at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-will-happen-sediment-plumes-associated-deep-sea-miningHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
such as vaccines through skin without using needles. MIT-Bubble-Jet-1024.jpg New study on water jets ... Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple, pioneered by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-dropletA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons. MIT ... be able to make these batteries anywhere at low cost,” says Alsym co-founder and MIT Professor Kripa ... a telecommunications company with serial entrepreneurs and longtime members of the MIT community Ray Stata ’57, SM ’58 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futureWrinkle Predictions
microlenses. MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsBubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double
equipment and disable plants. Now researchers at MIT have developed an understanding of what causes this ... thus significantly higher overall efficiency, they say. MIT-Boiling-2-1920.jpg Photo by: Jose-Luis ... better. The MIT team’s experiments, which use simultaneous high-speed optical and infrared imaging of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble%E2%80%A6boiling-doubleAlumni-founded robotic kitchen cooks up tasty meals
where they completed their first prototype. Since graduating from MIT in 2016, they have been pursuing ... Four hungry MIT student-athletes were on a mission to find a filling, inexpensive meal and ended ... and fellow Course 2 (mechanical engineering) graduates Braden Knight ’16, Luke Schlueter ’16, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-founded-robotic-kitchen-cooks-tasty-mealsPower Efficiency in the Violin
fluid dynamicists at MIT, along with violinmakers at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, have ... back plate, they found, would boost a violin’s sound. A1-MIT-Violin-Design.jpg The researchers found ... a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
a limpet’s shell can flash brilliantly even in murky water. MIT-Shell-Design-02.jpg Scientists at MIT and ... its blue-striped appearance./ Courtesy of the researchers Now scientists at MIT and Harvard University ... co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ... overlooked acoustic-gravity waves.” Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers at MIT have now ... assistant professor and a research affiliate in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, says the team’s results ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detection3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... to a certain temperature “sweet spot.” MIT-Shape-Memory_1024.jpg A shape-memory Eiffel tower was 3-D ... Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesHidden ocean waves
time, ocean engineers and scientists from MIT, the University of Minnesota at Duluth (UMD), and the ... MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ... science and engineering at MIT; Tim Duda, a senior scientist at WHOI; and Patrick Haley, a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hidden-ocean-waves“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect ... MIT-Organs-Chip-01-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissue from up to 10 ... are designed to interact with the human immune system. David Trumper, an MIT professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationUnleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells
MIT-Perovskite-Efficiency-1024.jpg Solar cells made of perovskite have great promise, in part because they can easily be made on ... a paper by former MIT postdoc Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, MIT professors Tonio Buonassisi and Moungi Bawendi, ... and 18 others at MIT, the University of California at San Diego, and other institutions. Perovskites ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-perovskites%E2%80%99-potential-solar-cellsUsing “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases
MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships ... human gut plays an important role under these inflammatory conditions. MIT-Gut-Liver-1024.jpg MIT ... systematic conditions,” says Martin Trapecar, an MIT postdoc and the lead author of the paper. Complex models ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-%E2%80%9Corgans-chip%E2%80%9D-model-complicated-diseasesSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT ... -Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg An MIT study shows that electrical vehicle batteries could have a useful and profitable second life ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteries