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Morphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... concentrated sunlight by a factor of several thousand. But the MIT researchers say that after further ... included MIT graduate students David Bierman and Walker Chan, former postdoc Youngsuk Nam, and research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-lightWeighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ... Nathan Cermak is also a lead author of the paper, and Manalis, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor ... than gold, the MIT team’s work is the first clear demonstration that the technique can work with gold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightCooling when there’s too much heat
a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... his co-authors, recent MIT PhD recipient Hyuk-Min Kwon and former MIT postdoc J.C. Bird, was to find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heat‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness
at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ... Lee, Patrick Ho, and Hermano Krebs from MIT and Mohammad Rastgaar Aagaah from Michigan Technological ... University. A robotic walking coach Hogan and Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffnessUnder the sea
the sea. Yet when ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of ... remaining a full-time MIT student. “Hopefully we’ll resurface before final exams,” she says with a smile. ... a high school junior — and was accepted at MIT. “Amazingly, MIT worked out,” Young says. Saving the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ... compounds for water-splitting, the MIT researchers predict that further research could lead to more-active ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisHow the ocean reins in global warming
Climate (PAOC) within MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). “In that this ... Kyle Armour, an EAPS postdoc, and John Marshall, MIT professor of oceanography, investigated how the ... warming.” These results led the MIT group to conclude that models must better represent the AMOC and its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-ocean-reins-global-warmingBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ... The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesStudent Spotlight: Yamile Pariente
division. When coordinators at MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives), which organized ... a moment’s hesitation, took a leave of absence from MIT, and flew to Germany. “It wasn’t even a question,” ... me. I’ve gotten some pretty hilarious reactions from people when I tell them I go to MIT and I’m ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-yamile-parienteCleaning Water Without the Grid
MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, but he describes one of the most important aspects of his job as ... “detective work.” That’s what he, MIT PhD candidate Natasha Wright, and their fellow researchers did for two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-water-without-gridFinding Wonderland
that defy expectations, both her own and those of others. Her decision to attend MIT at all surprised ... Engineering (MechE). “I thought everyone at MIT would be about science all the time. Instead I found strong ... throughout the world. Opening new possibilities is something MIT does well, said Moudio. She nearly passed up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-wonderlandBasic training
A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ... build the makerspace itself this summer. MakerLodge_01_1024.jpg MIT has over 40 design/build/project ... to 10 of MIT’s makerspaces; pairing with a maker community; and up to $100 in “makerbucks,” a stipend ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basic-trainingBatch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach
water is energy-intensive. A team of MIT researchers has responded by creating new designs for reverse ... could substantially reduce the energy use of future desalination systems. The team is co-led by two MIT ... mechanical engineers, PhD candidate Emily Tow and postdoc David Warsinger, and also includes MIT PhD student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batch-desalination-configuration-bests-standard-reverse-osmosis-approachGraphene holds up under high pressure
But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... possibilities for energy-efficient desalination at high salinities.” Karnik’s co-authors are lead author and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureUsing mechanical forces to improve wound healing
’80s, Orgill earned his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and ... medical exposure. As a mechanical engineering student at MIT, it was only natural that Orgill gravitated ... received his master's and PhD from MIT in the early '80s before earning an MD from Harvard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanical-forces-improve-wound-healingCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
Voigt, a professor in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, made those comments at the first of ... Sept. 14th and Sept. 28th at the Samberg Center. The annual workshop brings members of the MIT community ... collaboration is a hallmark of MIT’s research culture. J-WAFS seeks to leverage that collaboration by being ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsGiving early-career women in mechanical engineering the tools to succeed in academia
MIT’s campus. They all come from different backgrounds — one person studies human-robot interaction at ... Mechanical Engineering Workshop hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program, which is ... a researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who also works for the MIT IMPACT Program. IMPACT helps ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-early-career-women-mechanical-engineering-tools-succeed-academiaTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ... other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... is such a ubiquitous chemical that “every lab at MIT has some,” he says, so finding markets for it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resource