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Researchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... April 2, 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Jeehwan Kim ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-%E2%80%9Ciron-out%E2%80%9D-graphene%E2%80%99s-wrinklesNew 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste
and acoustic properties of certain materials. Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Adam Zewe | MIT News ... Researchers from MIT and Delft University of Technology have now introduced a more efficient, less wasteful, ... Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-technique-creates-unique-objects-quickly-and-less-wasteSun-powered desalination for villages in India
Technology and Design at MIT. Monday, September 8, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ... grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Now an analysis by MIT ... study, by MIT graduate student Natasha Wright and Amos Winter, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaStudent 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 ... Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major who was recently awarded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814A New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
Foundation, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Friday, May 23, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneNew method for propulsion in fluids
20, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office yellow tomp@mit.edu ... Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... through localized fluidization,” he adds. Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Helen Knight, MIT News correspondent ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsKnitted microtissue can accelerate healing
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Mechanical Engineering Group. "That's why if you stretch your ... from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the laboratory's Defense Fabric Discovery Center ... collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/knitted-microtissue-can-accelerate-healingVine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ... says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Allison Okamura, the Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objectsThe physics of curly hair
Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ... National Science Foundation, Schlumberger, the MIT-France Program, and a Battelle-MIT postdoctoral ... researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairCocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office yellow Collaboration Culture ... An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... time,” Bush says. “Engineers often take it to the next step by asking, ‘How can we apply this?’ In this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cocktail-novelties-inspired-nature%E2%80%99s-designsProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsA new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
particular problem that they have, so a lot of engineering and not so much flexibility in terms of the ... specific task,” says Alberto Rodriguez, an MIT visiting scientist who is a former member of the MechE ... members of the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube) under Rodriguez’ direction. “In this work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-offers-robots-precise-pick-and-place-solutionsOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
Science Foundation and NASA. Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Horizontal ... researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-ice3-D printing with cellulose
Thursday, March 2, 2017 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal ... paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... materials. “Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-celluloseA 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
Monday, June 3, 2019 Zach Winn | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship Maker Horizontal Inkbit, co-founded by ... production of specialized parts. Now Inkbit, a startup out of MIT, is working to bring all of the benefits of ... Wojciech Matusik, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Javier Ramos BS ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printer-powered-machine-vision-and-artificial-intelligenceSoft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devices
Researchers from the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT; the National ... engineering at NUI Galway and former researcher in the Roche and Duffy labs at MIT and NUI Galway, says “We ... Engineering, and W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering Ellen Roche, the senior ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robotics-breakthrough-manages-immune-response-implanted-devicesGetting a grip on robotic grasp
way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... 2014 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office orange asada@mit.edu ... — or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ... Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office red rdkamm@mit.edu ... cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vessel