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Hot New Solar Cell
MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar ... electricity. MIT-Solar-Thermal_1024.jpg While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same ... underlying theoretical limitations, MIT PhD student David Bierman says, “with solar thermal photovoltaics you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellNot stuck on silicon
light-emitting diodes, and other electronic and photonic devices. A new technique developed by MIT engineers may ... almost impossible to separate without damaging both layers. MIT-Graphene-CopyPaste_1024.jpg (Left to ... Kim. Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT “You end up having to sacrifice the wafer — it becomes part of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-siliconA graphene roll-out
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... biological separation, and other applications. MIT-Graphene-Roll-1024.jpg A new manufacturing process ... Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT “For several years, researchers have thought of graphene as a potential ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a misdiagnosis. Challenged to reimagine the ambulance of the future, five MIT students — Paolo Adajar, ... patients who are in critical condition. incube-mit-1024.jpg The MIT team, which reimagined the ambulance of ... inside a glass cube housed on the MIT campus. Their effort was part of InCube, a global startup ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-boxExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, ... expensive and more compact and lightweight, but they can lose 80 percent of their charge a month. The MIT ... — more than a thousandfold improvement. MIT-Metal-Air-Batteries-1024.jpg Researchers demonstrating the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesA new way to provide cooling without power
MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... metal suspended above the device blocks the sun’s direct rays. MIT-Radiative-Cooling_1024.jpg Two ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerTechnique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials
yank on it, the Silly Putty will snap like a brittle, solid bar. MIT-Gel-Chirps-01_1024.jpg High ... MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ... processes and materials,” says Bavand Keshavarz, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-inspired-dolphin-chirps-could-improve-tests-soft-materialsKen Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... avalanches and landslides. At MIT, Kamrin is happiest when surrounded by creativity and noise. “I come from ... a very loud family, and I like the fact that MIT is boisterous and loud,” Kamrin says. “When you walk ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ken-kamrin-seeks-fundamental-behaviors-sandEngineers 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-bracesPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ... a time,” says Sai Nithin Kantareddy, a PhD student in the MIT Auto-ID Laboratory. “This work is basically ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DUltralight 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-miningThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely measure and map such ... MIT-Touchy-Glove-02-PRESS.jpg An MIT team of engineers has designed a new touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other ... tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuliHigh-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-dropletDrug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... paper. Former MIT graduate student Alex Abramson and Novo Nordisk scientists Morten Revsgaard Frederiksen ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugsEngineers develop nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier
chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that surround the brain. A team of MIT researchers is now ... Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, an ... MIT_Blood-Brain-Barrier-01-PRESS_0.jpeg: MIT researchers have created a tissue model that allows them model drug delivery to brain tumors. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-nanoparticles-cross-blood-brain-barrierPassive cooling system could benefit off-grid locations
or no reliable electric power. Now, an innovative system developed at MIT offers a way to use passive ... Reports Physical Science, in a paper by MIT postdoc Zhengmao Lu, Arny Leroy PhD ’21, professors Jeffrey ... supported by MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab. MIT-EfficientCooling-01-press_0.jpg Two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/passive-cooling-system-could-benefit-grid-locationsNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
like pacemakers. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to improve the energy density of these ... are reported today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ... mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesMoving water and earth
flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ... too unwieldy: How do you quantify a pebble’s contours? The MIT researchers found that instead of ... Qiong Zhang, Ken Kamrin, and Taylor Perron of MIT, and Jeremy Venditti and Ryan Bradley of Simon Fraser ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... Research Lab at MIT. “But now we are exploring widely different problems like how to make air conditioning ... appearing today in Advanced Materials. The study’s MIT co-authors are Gustav Graeber, Leon Gaugler, Yang ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-air