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Benchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials
being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... MIT-MetaImpact-01-press_0.jpg: By firing microparticles at supersonic speeds, MIT engineers can test the resilience of various ... its aftermath, with nanosecond precision. meta-impact.gif MIT engineers have captured video of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/benchtop-test-quickly-identifies-extremely-impact-resistant-materialsWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise ... Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons. MIT ... be able to make these batteries anywhere at low cost,” says Alsym co-founder and MIT Professor Kripa ... a telecommunications company with serial entrepreneurs and longtime members of the MIT community Ray Stata ’57, SM ’58 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futureNew filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste
environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste. MIT engineers ... waste that plants generate. MIT-Sustain-Aluminum-02-press.jpg A schematic representation of the role of ... the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT. “This offers a promising solution ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-filter-captures-and-recycles-aluminum-manufacturing-wasteHow to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion
make the other part worse. Now, using nanoscale filtering membranes, researchers at MIT have added ... percent, they say. The new findings are reported today in the journal ACS Energy Letters, in a paper by MIT ... MIT-BetterC02-02-press1024x768.jpg Using nanoscale filtering membranes, researchers at MIT have added a simple intermediate step that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-solve-bottleneck-co2-capture-and-conversionOnce-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials
MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases ... medication from within the stomach. MIT-Schizophrenia-Trial-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg The ingestible capsule is ... conducted by MIT spinout Lyndra Therapeutics, the researchers used the once-a-week pill to deliver a widely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-week-pill-schizophrenia-shows-promise-clinical-trialsProduction in the Innovation Economy
MIT Faculty See Promise in American Manufacturing Photo Credit: MIT News Office by Peter ... Dizikes, MIT News Office Not long ago, MIT political scientist and faculty member Suzanne Berger was ... That is the kind of problem Berger and 19 of her faculty colleagues at MIT, including Department Head ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/production-innovation-economyWrinkle Predictions
microlenses. MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
sunlight. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines ... in solar-power installations, the researchers say. MIT-Tandem-Solar 1024-.jpg Photo by Felice Frankel ... control circuit. The new findings are reported in the journal Applied Physics Letters by MIT graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedBubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double
equipment and disable plants. Now researchers at MIT have developed an understanding of what causes this ... thus significantly higher overall efficiency, they say. MIT-Boiling-2-1920.jpg Photo by: Jose-Luis ... better. The MIT team’s experiments, which use simultaneous high-speed optical and infrared imaging of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble%E2%80%A6boiling-doubleReducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
But a team of MIT researchers aims to fix that. By using a clever combination of two inexpensive ... Mahmoudi, and former postdoc Md Nasim Hyder. MIT-Cutting-Herbicide-1_1024.jpg A team of researchers, ... the team found. When the MIT team began studying the problem of pesticide runoff, which is a major ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-runoff-pollution-making-spray-droplets-less-bouncyTemperature difference propels droplets
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across ... described this week in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ... mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsLiving sensors at your fingertips
Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, ... up in the presence of certain chemicals. MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Researchers have found that the ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the group’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-sensors-your-fingertipsEngineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
MIT-Tree-on-Chip.jpg Engineers have designed a microfluidic device they call a “tree-on-a-chip,” which mimics the ... pumping mechanism of trees and other plants. Now engineers at MIT and their collaborators have designed ... head for operations in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the chip’s passive pumping may ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-%E2%80%9Ctree-chip%E2%80%9DA measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind
lengths without seeing the measurements? MIT graduate students Pranay Jain and Anshul Singhal asked these ... because content becomes unavailable and the laboratory becomes inaccessible. squirrel-device-mit ... -meche.jpg Plastic sliding calipers known as Squirrel Devices, developed by MIT grad students, make geometry’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measurable-improvement-stem-access-blindWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ... do something original. We came to MIT to make things. Our decision to follow through on that became ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchNew 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
their own creations. They’re strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. A new study by MIT ... through a vigorous workout. MIT-Hydrogel-Muscles-1024.jpg A mechanically trained artificial muscle resists ... of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ... described this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), in a paper by MIT ... the particular liquid involved. MIT-Surface-Wettability-1024.jpg Researchers can now treat a surface ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactEngineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
Now MIT engineers have devised a new kind of wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without ... mechanically vibrate in response to an electrical impulse. MIT-Chip-Free-Sensor-1024.jpg The device senses and ... include first author and former MIT postdoc Yeongin Kim, who is now an assistant professor at the ...
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