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Tackling industry’s burdensome bubble problem
MIT researchers uncovered the physics behind bubble-removing membranes that could improve ... can even cause overheating in electronics and nuclear power plants. MIT Professor Kripa Varanasi has ... bubbles, the MIT researchers used MIT.nano facilities to create a series of tiny porous silicon membranes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-industry%E2%80%99s-burdensome-bubble-problemHow some skills become second nature
MIT engineers wondered: Could an expert’s unconscious know-how be accessed, and even taught, to ... type of visual-learning task. A new study by MIT researchers directly shows that visual attention can ... reveal unconscious, tacit knowledge during image classification tasks. Credit: MIT News; figures courtesy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-some-skills-become-second-natureJ-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions
projects. Together, the funded projects demonstrate MIT’s application of innovative technologies to food and ... Solutions program helps move these water and food technologies from labs at MIT into commercial use, where ... filter technology, funded by J-WAFS Solutions. “MIT was created to move innovative research into the real ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-commercialization-grants-develop-technologies-water-and-food-solutionsAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
solve a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle. An interdisciplinary team from MIT has found that ... Emre Gençer, a research scientist with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and a member of the team. “Our ... Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-cream2.007 Forever!
On Tuesday evening, fans of all ages came to MIT’s Johnson Athletics Center to cheer on their ... designed by undergraduates in MIT’s mechanical engineering course, 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). Each ... which were filmed on and around the MIT campus. Putting an MIT spin on the theme, the instructors billed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-foreverStudent Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Under the Sea By Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman A house by ... ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living ... a high school junior — and was accepted at MIT. “Amazingly, MIT worked out,” Young says. Young joined the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814Ioannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor of polymer science and engineering recognized for inventing "artificial ... skin" Ioannis V. Yannas, professor of polymer science and engineering in the MIT Department of ... the theory of viscoelasticity in polymers at MIT when he approached surgeon John F. Burke to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ioannis-yannas-be-inducted-national-inventors-hall-fameNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairRefrigerator magnets
according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ... so you can essentially use a magnet as a refrigerator,” says Bolin Liao, a graduate student in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsSteam from the sun
A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ... highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... at MIT, report on the details of the new steam-generating structure in the journal Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
such detections possible in real time, according to a team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital ... McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... several fields.” The team also included MIT graduate students Eugene Lim and Thomas Ober and five others. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... MIT’s Nicholas Fang; former postdoc Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; ... at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
feathers. The research was carried out by MIT professors Robert Cohen, Michael Rubner, and Gareth McKinley; ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ... the water might spontaneously dewet, and it would be dry again.” The MIT analysis showed that this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesA New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
difficulties in transferring the graphene from the foil to useful substrates. Now researchers at MIT and the ... led by A. John Hart of MIT. Lead authors of the paper are Dan McNerny, a former Michigan postdoc, and ... Viswanath Balakrishnan, a former MIT postdoc who is now at the Indian Institute of Technology. Currently, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneNew method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... discover new things.” In addition to Peacock, the work was carried out by former MIT postdoc Matthieu ... Mercier, now at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse in France; MIT affiliates Brian Doyle and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsSolving a mystery of thermoelectrics
researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... which could lead to the discovery of new, improved thermoelectric materials. The findings — by MIT ... phase-change research and those doing thermoelectric research,” Lee says. Interdisciplinary meetings at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsOrienteering for robots
Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ... student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ... his advisors, John Fisher, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ... an MIT spinout based in Quincy, Mass. Energy-saving anchoring Winter first began developing the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsNew surface treatment stops scale buildup
at MIT has come up with a potential solution to this huge but little-recognized problem. A new kind ... Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... to be proven on an industrial scale, the new approach developed by the MIT team could make ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildupBetter batteries through biology?
number of charging-discharging cycles the batteries can withstand. Now, MIT researchers have found that ... area. Belcher, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... and Shao-Horn, the work was carried out by MIT research scientists Jifa Qi and Yong Zhang and postdoc ...
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