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Hairy tongues help bats drink up
tasty sap. MIT-Bat-Tongues_10124.jpg Animals have evolved all manner of adaptations to get the nutrients ... spoons to scoop and drag up the tasty sap. Now engineers at MIT have found that, for bats and other ... MIT’s Department of Mathematics. “We hope that our theory explains what are the main trending mechanisms ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hairy-tongues-help-bats-drink“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect ... MIT-Organs-Chip-01-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissue from up to 10 ... are designed to interact with the human immune system. David Trumper, an MIT professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationNew approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
land instead of bouncing off. MIT-Mesh-Droplets-1024.jpg Photos illustrate how the tiny droplets ... Varanasi Research Group Now, a team of MIT researchers has found a way to balance those properties and get ... findings are reported today in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-makes-sprayed-droplets-hit-and-stick-their-targetsStamp-sized graphene sheets riddled with holes could be boon for molecular separation
MIT engineers have found a way to directly “pinprick” microscopic holes into graphene as the ... molecules out of solutions vastly more efficient. MIT-Big-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed ... Felice Frankel Such holes would typically be considered unwanted defects, but the MIT team has found that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stamp-sized-graphene-sheets-riddled-holes-could-be-boon-molecular-separationUnleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells
MIT-Perovskite-Efficiency-1024.jpg Solar cells made of perovskite have great promise, in part because they can easily be made on ... a paper by former MIT postdoc Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, MIT professors Tonio Buonassisi and Moungi Bawendi, ... and 18 others at MIT, the University of California at San Diego, and other institutions. Perovskites ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-perovskites%E2%80%99-potential-solar-cellsArtificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... biomedical applications. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg The tiny coils in the fiber developed by MIT ... reported today in the journal Science. The new fibers were developed by MIT postdoc Mehmet Kanik and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-%E2%80%9Cmuscles%E2%80%9D-achieve-powerful-pulling-forceSystem provides cooling with no electricity
magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do exactly that. The device, ... below the ambient air temperature. MIT-Aerogel-Cooling-03-1024.jpg In field tests, the performance of ... a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
An autonomous robotic system invented by researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic ... coral reef most exposed to air. MIT-Robotic-Sampling-1024.jpg Even in unexplored waters, an ... MIT-developed robotic system can efficiently sniff out valuable, hard-to-find spots to collect samples from. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaA material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
MIT-Thermal-Conductivity-1024.jpg Researchers found that strontium cobalt oxide (SCO) naturally occurs in an atomic configuration ... conductive. Image: courtesy of the researchers Now, a team of researchers at MIT have made a major leap ... Nature Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Bilge Yildiz and Gang Chen, recent graduates Qiyang Lu PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-willUsing “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases
MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships ... human gut plays an important role under these inflammatory conditions. MIT-Gut-Liver-1024.jpg MIT ... systematic conditions,” says Martin Trapecar, an MIT postdoc and the lead author of the paper. Complex models ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-%E2%80%9Corgans-chip%E2%80%9D-model-complicated-diseasesSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT ... -Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg An MIT study shows that electrical vehicle batteries could have a useful and profitable second life ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteriesNew microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation
industrial processes. Now, for the first time, a new microscopy technique developed at MIT and elsewhere ... efficient surfaces for a variety of such processes. MIT-Nucleation-Distribution1024.jpg Many different ... MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang; visiting research scientist Ryuichi Iwata; professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-technique-reveals-details-droplet-nucleation“Colloidal gels,” ubiquitous in everyday products, divulge their secrets
Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for determining the structure and behavior of ... these colloidal gels in a crystallized, porous form known as zeolites. MIT ... and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Our results enable researchers to determine why weak ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ccolloidal-gels%E2%80%9D-ubiquitous-everyday-products-divulge-their-secretsSolar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
expense. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt ... a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... runs,” he adds. MIT-Reject-Salt-01-press_1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationJoystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely
MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat ... save the patient’s life and preserve their brain function. MIT-Robo-Stroke-01-1024.jpg With a modified ... any damage to the brain. The MIT team envisions that its robotic system could be installed at smaller ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/joystick-operated-robot-could-help-surgeons-treat-stroke-remotelyEngineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves
predict. Now, MIT engineers have found a new way to model how waves break. The team used machine learning ... affiliate of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT. “It may sound like a detail, but if you ... important to climate prediction.” The study’s co-authors include lead author and MIT postdoc Debbie Eeltink, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-use-artificial-intelligence-capture-complexity-breaking-wavesEngineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs
a “screen door effect” such that users perceive stripes in the space between pixels. Now, MIT engineers have ... create vertical, multicolored pixels. MIT_Vertical-LEDs-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a new ... reported in the journals,” says Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We show ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-invent-vertical-full-color-microscopic-ledsEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... 50 degrees Celsius (77 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit), the team reports. MIT ... -CapturingHumidity1024.jpg MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... how certain shoe properties will affect a runner’s performance. MIT ... _Sneaker-Design-01-PRESS_0.jpg A model developed by MIT engineers predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Pictured ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performanceThis ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... engineering at MIT. “With this wearable sticker, we can continuously monitor changes in rigidity over long ... instead of waiting until the condition becomes severe.” Liu was a visiting scientist at MIT at the time of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organs