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J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
managed by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, is in its second year. Like direct ... Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Professor, says that MIT faculty continue to devise ... “Commercializing effective technologies with sound business models is one of MIT’s most effective mechanisms to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishMethod may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ... which require patients to travel long distances,” says former MIT postdoc Mohammad Qasaimeh. “Capturing ... co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesWater, water everywhere … even in the air
MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ... including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... humidity of 100 percent, explains Wang, who is the Gail E. Kendall Professor at MIT. But such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... explored for applications in electronics, Piran Kidambi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... reporting the technology, published today in Advanced Materials. Six co-authors are from MIT, including ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... MIT have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. The framework ... at MIT. “We have applied this framework to turbulent fluid flows, which are the Holy Grail of extreme ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsA new way to mix oil and water
researchers at MIT might turn that expression on its head, providing a way to get the two substances to mix ... the proportion of surfactant. The findings, by MIT graduate student Ingrid Guha, former postdoc ... down wells are also emulsions, Varanasi says. The work was supported by the MIT Energy Initiative, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mix-oil-and-waterIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... senior author of both papers. MIT postdoc Sameer Rao and former graduate student Hyunho Kim SM ’14, PhD ... ’18 were the lead authors of the latest paper, along with four others at MIT and the University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airTeaching robots how to move objects
graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ... in Barcelona. During a year as a visiting student at MIT, Bauza was able to put her interest in ... computer science and artificial intelligence into practice. “When I came to MIT for that year, I starting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsShowcasing solutions for land, sea, space — and everywhere in between
one of the 44 participants in this year’s MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which ... Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Graduate students, postdocs, and ... the event gave the entire mechanical engineering community at MIT an opportunity to learn about ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/showcasing-solutions-land-sea-space-%E2%80%94-and-everywhere-betweenBlending medicine and mechanical engineering
both industry and academia. As an assistant professor at MIT, she holds a joint appointment in the ... joined an online Irish network to stay connected to her roots. “When I emailed an online group of MIT and ... position in mechanical engineering and medical engineering at MIT after completing her PhD. She deferred ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blending-medicine-and-mechanical-engineeringNew polymer films conduct heat instead of trapping it
a Styrofoam coffee cup, both manufactured from polymer materials that are excellent at trapping heat. Now MIT ... Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, and a senior co-author on the paper. “Our bigger vision is, ... Li from MIT, and Zhang Jiang of Argonne National Laboratory. In 2010, the team reported success in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-polymer-films-conduct-heat-instead-trapping-itNew surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
away with them. Now, researchers at MIT have made significant progress in promoting droplet formation ... developed at MIT by Gleason and is now widely used. The authors optimized the iCVD process by tuning the ... condenser systems.” The research was supported by the Shell-MIT Energy Initiative partnership. The team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencySuper-strong surgical tape detaches on demand
Last year, MIT engineers developed a double-sided adhesive that could quickly and firmly stick ... at MIT. “You put the adhesive on, and if for any reason you want to take it off, you can do so ... along with Jingjing Wu at MIT, and Christoph Nabzdyk at Mayo Clinic Rochester. Unbreakable bonds In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/super-strong-surgical-tape-detaches-demandThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently set out to answer that question. In a study ... fronts,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist ... these systems,” Chai says. The MIT team is continuing to develop sensors that can obtain vital sign ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ... Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... University of California at Santa Diego, and MIT postdoc Yu Long Han. Blowing up The basement membrane ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisA robot that senses hidden objects
been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, ... Kinetics Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her MIT co-authors include Adib, who is the director of the Signal ... | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal MIT researchers including Associate Professor Alberto ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-senses-hidden-objectsWomen’s Technology Program 2021: The sweet sound of success
Each year, a new cohort of high school students come to MIT’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus to ... MIT students, plus several recent MIT grads and a student from nearby Wellesley College) design ... which is honestly a newfound passion of mine. I’d like to thank all of the donors at MIT for making this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/women%E2%80%99s-technology-program-2021-sweet-sound-successExploring growth within a confined space
confinement. Photo: moonimage/Flickr Now, MIT and Yale University researchers have developed a theoretical framework ... a research team led by Tal Cohen, MIT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of ... was not part of the MIT-Yale study. “Cohen and co-workers have ingeniously solved the Eshelby’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-growth-within-confined-spaceAging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
expertise to join the field, MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) this month awarded five seed grants after ... a competition among labs across the Institute. Founded in 2015 by nine MIT faculty members, the ABI promotes ... were very pleased that many groups across MIT were eager to contribute their expertise and creativity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-awards-fund-five-new-ideas-study-fight-neurodegeneration