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Big Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores
keep cells healthy and stable. Now researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of ... cells. MIT-Graphene-Pores 1024.jpg Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Each graphene pore is less than ... says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-range-behaviors-tiny-graphene-poresScientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency
through. Now MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted ... inflated like a balloon. MIT-Color-Composites-1024.jpg Three colors of PDMS — a widely used rubbery, ... shows the PDMS material before being inflated. The bottom row shows the PDMS inflated, revealing the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-tune-polymer-material%E2%80%99s-transparencyFor Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up
severely limit graphene’s practical uses. Seeking an alternative, a team from MIT and Harvard University is ... a fraction of the cost, the researchers say. MIT-Nanoscrolls-1024.jpg An electron microscopy image shows many ... practical to use graphene,” says Itai Stein, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stronger-lighter-cheaper-materials-scrollFast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
rather stiff. MIT-Cell-Moves 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical ... constant, jiggling motions of a cell’s particles. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Determining the mechanical ... microscopes and optical tweezers, which make direct, invasive contact with the cells. Now MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-noninvasive-technique-probing-cells-may-reveal-diseaseIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ... MIT researchers have designed an ingestible sensor that can lodge in the stomach for a few weeks and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyTechnique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
scattering, but it also reduces imaging resolution. MIT-Subcutaneous-Superresolution-1024.jpg MIT researchers ... researchers at MIT have developed a technique to use the effect to their advantage. The new technique, which ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-could-boost-resolution-tissue-imaging-much-tenfold“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ... motion in injured tendons and muscles during healing. MIT-Nano-Yarn-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this nanofiber yarn, the hope is, you won’t have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cnanofiber-yarn%E2%80%9D-makes-stretchy-protective-artificial-tissueHow to speed up the discovery of new solar cell materials
painstaking. MIT-AI-Solar-PRESS 1024.jpg Diagram depicts the sequence of steps used in the new streamlined ... Now, a team of researchers at MIT and several other institutions has accelerated the process of ... Joule, in a paper by MIT research scientist Shijing Sun, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-speed-discovery-new-solar-cell-materialsTissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
MIT-Blood-Brain-Barrier-1024.jpg The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the ... Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... MIT. The researchers also used the tissue model to show that a drug that restores the blood-brain ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tissue-model-reveals-role-blood-brain-barrier-alzheimer%E2%80%99sSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug ... diluted and injected intravenously. MIT-slippery-syringe-02-press-1024.jpg Researchers designed a system ... Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
research at MIT could open the door to ways of making certain catalysts more active, and thus enhancing the ... Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... carbon dioxide into fuels. MIT-Enhancing-Electro-01-PRESS.jpeg This diagram illustrates the new process ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsOvercoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion
a power plant or other emissions sources. Now, researchers at MIT have identified, quantified, and modeled ... conversion systems, were published today in the journal Langmuir, in a paper by MIT postdoc Álvaro Moreno ... MIT-CO2-Limits-01-PRESS.jpeg MIT researchers have identified a problem that tends to limit chemical processes for turning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-bottleneck-carbon-dioxide-conversionToward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
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 ... MIT-FlexBoard-1.png FlexBoard is an interaction prototyping platform that enables rapid prototyping with interactive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toward-more-flexible-and-rapid-prototyping-electronic-devicesClosing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
design-to-manufacturing gap, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong used machine learning to build ... to a wide range of photolithography systems. MIT-Neural-Lithography-01_0.jpg Researchers from MIT and ... of electronics. Credits: MIT News; iStock “This idea sounds simple, but the reasons people haven’t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesRobotic palm mimics human touch
from a robot. Why? Most of them don't have palms. 1024MIT-GelPalm.png MIT CSAIL student Sandra Q. ... Liu displays her innovative GelPalm robotic design in her lab workspace. Credit: Michael Grimmett/MIT ... ongoing Herculean effort. Now, a new robotic hand design developed in MIT's Computer Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-palm-mimics-human-touchApplying For Admission
score (Inst. code 3514), or to send your DET score, select Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ... submitting completed applications is December 15, 2025. Applicants to the MIT MechE graduate program should ... apply using the MechE online admissions site: https://apply.mit.edu/apply/ For any questions not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/prospective-students/graduate/applyDora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
MIT-Dora-Aldama_1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark “I was just so excited to be in this plane,” says Aldama, a graduate ... student in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program. “I was checking it out — what’s great, not ... engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dora-aldama-drawn-multidimensional-problemsStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
anxiety associated with needles, some patients stop adhering to these treatments. MIT spinout Portal ... patient adherence. MIT-Portal-Instruments-1024.jpg Based on research by Ian Hunter, the George N. ... Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT, Portal Instruments developed a jet-injection device that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealGoing for the gold
MIT-Shred-Optics-01-1024.jpg Ted Ligety wearing the helmet and goggle collection that Shred will be debuting at the Olympics. ... MIT students and faculty helped enhance the lens technology used in the lenses of these goggles. ... and Carlo Salmini MBA ’11, a material engineer and MIT Sloan School of Management alum. “Of all the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-goldEngineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor
coverings trap the heat that the devices produce. Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a polymer ... 10 times as much heat as most commercially used polymers. MIT-Polymer-Conductor.JPG Engineers at MIT ... as a heat conductor, dissipating heat rather than insulating it. Image: Chelsea Turner/MIT ...
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