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Passive cooling system could benefit off-grid locations

.   Monday, September 19, 2022 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal An innovative ... 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 ...

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Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination

a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... Foundation. Monday, February 14, 2022 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International ... expense. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt ...

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Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately

heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... material-engineering technique. Her MIT co-authors are Luis Marcelo Lozano, Seongdon Hong, Yi Huang, Hadi Zandavi, ...

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Researchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization

electronic devices. MIT-Graphene-Wafers-01-1024.jpg Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT have developed a technique to harvest 2-inch ... it would be expensive.” Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent ...

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Extending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office International Horizontal A new design from ... 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 ...

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See-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat

to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ... still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... HKUST-MIT Consortium. Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor ...

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A new way to remove ice buildup without power or chemicals

| MIT News Office Entrepreneurship International Horizontal A passive, solar-powered system developed by ... environmentally harmful. Now, MIT researchers have developed a completely passive, solar-powered way of combating ... ice buildup. MIT-Solar-Deicing-1024.jpg Passive solar-powered system could prevent freezing on ...

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Bubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam

Melinda Gates Foundation. Monday, February 10, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship ... product and may require extra processing steps for their removal. Now, researchers at MIT have come up ... graduate Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18, visiting student Theo Emmerich, and professor of mechanical engineering ...

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High-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch

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 ... engineering at MIT. “All that force has to be created close to the surface, at a near standstill. That’s what ...

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Study suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2

September 5, 2023 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Betar Gallant and her team reveal the hidden ... In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ...

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In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat

in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ... October 30, 2023 David L. Chandler | MIT News Horizontal Professor Gang Chen and his team have a newly ...

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“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid

MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... to power the entire grid.” Tuesday, December 4, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office International ... clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ...

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MIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use

MIT Sea Grant and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with Alfonso Parra Rubio and Neil ... Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship’s hull ... presented at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 2025 Maritime Convention in Norfolk, ...

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Bringing closure to models: Deep learning physics

understanding, and applicability.  Such technology could be a “holy grail for engineers and scientists,” ... according to Pierre Lermusiaux, the Nam Pyo Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean ... Science and Engineering. Applications could include better weather, ocean, earth system, and climate ...

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Keeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19

the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Indoor ventilation is still critical,” ... Engineering, and at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “However, we find that ... National Science Foundation. Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ...

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Transforming boating, with solar power

The MIT Sailing Pavilion hosted an altogether different marine vessel recently: a prototype of ... a solar electric boat developed by James Worden ’89, the founder of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team ... the MIT Edgerton Center, MIT Sea Grant, and the broader community an inside look at the Anita, named ...

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Professor Koichi Masubuchi, Leading Expert in Welding Science and Fabrication Technology, Passes Away at 92.

and spent most of his career at Batelle and MIT dedicated to progressing the science and engineering ... Koichi Masubuchi, Professor Emeritus of Ocean Engineering, passed away on April 1, 2016, at the age of 92 ... degree from the University of Tokyo, both in naval architecture, and received a PhD in engineering from ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis

engineering and principal investigator at MIT’s Stochastic Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics (SAND) lab is ... engineering. After completing my PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, I had a post-doc appointment at NYU’s ... Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I then came back to MIT as a faculty member with the idea of ...

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Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds

artist at MIT Sea Grant Keith Ellenbogen and MIT mechanical engineering PhD student Andreas ... The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific ... Credit: Keith Ellenbogen A new research initiative developing at MIT Sea Grant, called LOBSTgER — short ...

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