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How much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?

materials  is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ... is more material-intensive than producing traditional combustion engines, and the  demand for battery ... Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Currently, most lithium is extracted from  hard ...

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A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students

measurement tools, is run by and for students. Culture Home Undergraduate Graduate Post-Doc Prospective ...

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Minimally invasive 3D-printable bioadhesive cardiac pacing lead may reduce complications, improve safety for cardiac patients

bioadhesive technologies,” said Hyunwoo Yuk SM ’16, PhD ’21, a former MIT research scientist who is now the ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering, has introduced a 3D-printable bioadhesive pacing lead ... authors of the study, former MIT researcher Jue Deng is the paper’s first author.  “This work introduces ...

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“Each of us holds a piece of the solution”

anthropologists and engineers, and more,” MIT Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang told an energetic ... MIT has an unparalleled history of bringing together interdisciplinary teams to solve pressing ... collaboration unlike any that’s come before at MIT. “Solving climate change is not just about new technologies ...

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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity

the brain’s massive storage capacity. Image: MIT News “Originally, astrocytes were believed to just ... says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... to AI informed by recent neuroscience research.”  Tuesday, May 27, 2025 Anne Trafton | MIT News blue ...

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Ken Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand

member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... faculty position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2011, where he has continued his work in ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor Ken Kamrin's models of granular flow shed light on ...

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New microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation

engineering and department head Evelyn Wang; and nine others at MIT, the University of Illinois at ... 2, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal The technique, ... industrial processes. Now, for the first time, a new microscopy technique developed at MIT and elsewhere ...

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Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision

MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... professor of mechanical engineering and head of the  MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ... the Robotics and AI Institute. Wednesday, May 7, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal In addition ...

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Tissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... Foundation. Sunday, August 11, 2019 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A microfluidic ... MIT-Blood-Brain-Barrier-1024.jpg The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the ...

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Scientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions

and interconnects between quantum computers.” Saturday, October 5, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... 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 ...

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Giving robots a faster grasp

combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... Science Foundation. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office International Maker ... this preplanning process down to less than a second. MIT-Robot-Gripper_1024.jpg A new algorithm speeds ...

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Physicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow

study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... Council, and a Google Faculty Research Award. Tuesday, April 26, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time. But researchers at MIT and the ...

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New gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms

one. Now MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or ... MIT-Hydrogel-Lam-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or rubber ... Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ...

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Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation

MIT researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system ... MIT-Pushing-Dynamics_1024.jpg A key to compiling the novel Omnipush dataset was building modular objects (pictured) that enabled ... student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ...

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Soft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought

researchers Credits: Now, an MIT engineer has devised a simple way to measure the degree of residual stress in ... part, by MIT’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence and an MIT Mathworks Fellowship. ... Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Soft materials hold onto “memories” of their ...

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Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts

MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and ... John Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... from our aluminum alloys.” Monday, October 6, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal ...

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Inspired to Heal the Human Heart

Development Professor and an associate professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and in ... Lab DESIGN INSPIRATION OFTEN STRIKES ELLEN ROCHE IN HER MIT LAB. But it can also emerge while she’s ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Roche takes such ideas back to her lab, where she and her ...

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Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale

New research from the MIT Device Research Lab uncovers the hidden world of salt creeping Salt ... when it does,’ says Joseph Phelim Mooney, a postdoctoral researcher in the MIT Device Research ... even art conservation, where salt damage is a major threat to heritage materials. In civil engineering ...

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Imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution

regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ... author along with mechanical engineering professor Peter So and principal research scientist Brian ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. In the journal Light: Science and Applications, ...

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Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices

Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... mind, MIT researchers developed “ FlexBoard,” a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of ... author Michael Wessely, a recent postdoc at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

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