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Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
background. Now, engineers at MIT have developed a small, mirrored chip that helps to produce dark-field ... objects. A1-MIT-Dark-Mirror-Frankel-1024.jpg Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard ... microorganisms in the field. “Imagine you’re a marine biologist,” says Cecile Chazot, a graduate student in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mirrored-chip-could-enable-handheld-dark-field-microscopesHow cell mechanics influences everything
But really, not much is known about this process.” His work in cell mechanics led him to MIT, where he ... of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Mingo-Guo-01-press_1024.jpg Ming Guo’s research bridges multiple ... the growth and spread of diseased and cancerous cells. Photo courtesy of Jared Charney At MIT, Guo and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cell-mechanics-influences-everythingNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... student Brandon Hopkins, and four others. MIT-Gravity-Flow_0.jpg A new concept for a flow battery ... one developed by members of this MIT team, that used the same chemical compounds as conventional ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downStretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly ... published its results online in the journal Advanced Materials. mit-stretchy-optics-1024.jpg Zhao has ... Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchy-optical-fibers-implanting-bodyNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
many applications, from robotics to components in the automobile and aviation industries. Now, MIT ... key ingredient, cheap and ubiquitous, is ordinary nylon fiber. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg This ... challenging and had not yet been achieved in a simple and inexpensive system until the new work at MIT. There ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
MIT-Archer-Fish-1024.jpg In addition to spit-shooting, an archer fish, pictured here, can launch itself from a near ... Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchOur hairy insides
currents of the fluids they’re immersed in. MIT-Hair-Beds_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT can predict how beds of ... flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ... author and MIT postdoc José Alvarado, former graduate student Jean Comtet, and Emmanuel de Langre, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-hairy-insidesStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
MIT-Transpararent-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its ... Kong and Kuan Qiao Now MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting ... in Nature Materials. In addition to Kim, the paper’s MIT co-authors include Wei Kong, Huashan Li, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materialsExotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ... stuff of pencil lead. MIT-Second-Sound_1024.jpg Researchers find evidence that heat moves through ... Nelson, the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at MIT. “There’s good reason to believe that second ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-leadHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... squeezing the container. MIT-Slippery-Gels-1024.jpg A gel-like yield stress fluid, top, moves as a plug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideMicrofluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing ... MIT-BioChip-Sensor-01-1024.jpg Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to infection triggers an inflammation chain reaction ... Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, MIT researchers describe a microfluidics-based system that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutesScientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
energy known as phonons. MIT-Quantum-1024.jpg MIT researchers detect a single quantum vibration within ... a diamond sample (shown here) at room temperature. Image: Sabine Galland Now scientists at MIT and the Swiss ... a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. “Our experiment, because it is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-observe-single-quantum-vibration-under-ordinary-conditionsGiving robots a faster grasp
combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... this preplanning process down to less than a second. MIT-Robot-Gripper_1024.jpg A new algorithm speeds ... MIT, says the speedier planning process will enable robots, particularly in industrial settings, to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspEngineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... environment. Unlike some of the gels now used to grow tissue, the new MIT gel is completely synthetic, easy to ... assemble and can be produced with a consistent composition every time. MIT-Pancreatic-Tumor-1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingTaking on the stormy seas
often surprisingly unpredictable.” MIT-Sapsis-Themistoklis-1024.jpg Themistoklis Sapsis, an associate ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and computational methods to try to predict ... the other. Today, Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-stormy-seasPeeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ... scales,” says lead author Anthony McDougal, a research assistant in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... micro-nanostructured materials.” McDougal’s co-authors at MIT include postdoc Sungsam Kang, research scientist Zahid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scalesHow to clean solar panels without water
a team of researchers at MIT has devised a way of automatically cleaning solar panels, or the mirrors of ... problem, they say. MIT-Cleaning-Solar-03-press.jpeg The new system uses electrostatic repulsion to cause ... side of the panel. The research is described today in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-clean-solar-panels-without-waterA new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine ... Fahrenheit. MIT-Thermal-Batteries-1024-press.jpg A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell (size 1 cm x 1 cm) mounted on ... N. Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This is an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-heat-engine-no-moving-parts-efficient-steam-turbinePhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time. But researchers at MIT and the ... study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... MIT-Unruh-Effect-01-press_0.jpeg According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, Millenium Falcon pilots would more likely see ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowHow “2D” materials expand
a research scientist. MIT-Thermal-Expansion1024.jpg A green laser shines onto an atomically thin material. By ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as others from the Department of Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Southern ...
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