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A new way to make droplets bounce away
MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ... researchers at MIT demonstrates a new approach to minimizing the contact between droplets and surfaces. While ... described in the journal ACS Nano in a paper by MIT graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, postdoc Dan Soto, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ... MIT-Robo-Plant-01-1024.jpg The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “After you open the engine roof, you have to be flexible enough to make sharp ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantTo make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze
like ideas, information, and even infection. Now researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have ... would. MIT-Cell-Crowding-01-Press-1024.jpg the cell division marker Ki67 shows that the number of ... into more specialized cells. Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/make-mini-organs-grow-faster-give-them-squeezeCould lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystems technology Laboratories, and Jeffrey Borenstein, ... for a particular purpose. MIT-Cultured-Plants-Chart1024.jpg The technology, as demonstrated in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-lab-grown-plant-tissue-ease-environmental-toll-logging-and-agricultureHow to make hydrogels more injectable
materials, which are made from microscale building blocks akin to squishy LEGOs, MIT and Harvard University ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ... appears today in the journal Matter. Connor Verheyen, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Program in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableRobotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses ... required. Instead, the MIT team built a robotic finger with a rigid skeleton encased in a soft outer layer ... MIT-GelSignEndoFlex-01-press_0.jpg MIT researchers developed a soft-rigid robotic finger that incorporates powerful sensors along its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspOutside-the-Box Thinker
it himself, of course. At age 13, Nathan Spielberg — now an MIT senior — began building his first ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... MIT, he has held onto this tenet, but turned his attention to a new means of production: 3-D printing. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerRohit Karnik seeks sustainable solutions through nanotechnology
challenges. MIT-Karnik-Rohit-1_1024.jpg “I try to guide my research by... asking myself the question, ‘What ... civilization?’” says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo by ... Ken Richardson In one of his many projects, Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rohit-karnik-seeks-sustainable-solutions-through-nanotechnologyDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
MIT-Smarter-Streetlights_1024.jpg “The way we measure street lighting is still very primitive,” says Sumeet Kumar PhD ’14. Kumar and ... generate its street views. Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT There must be a better way, a team of ... researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsNew kind of supercapacitor made without carbon
researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive ... MIT-Semicapacitor_1024.jpg To demonstrate the supercapacitor's ability to store power, the researchers modified an ... Materials, in a paper by Mircea Dincă, an MIT associate professor of chemistry; Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-supercapacitor-made-without-carbonSpray tuning
specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ... used a strobe light technique, originally developed by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton, to create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/spray-tuningEngineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from ... three-dimensional, interactive structures and devices. MIT-3D 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing ... Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-%E2%80%9Cliving-tattoo%E2%80%9DEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Microsystems Technology Laboratories. His co-authors are ... Yeon of MIT, along with Pai-Yu Chen and Shimeng Yu of Arizona State University. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwarePaper-folding art inspires better bandages
the adhesive will peel away from the skin with just a few bends of the affected joint. Now MIT ... kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesStudy finds potential in brackish groundwater desalination
groundwater, less than 1 percent currently comes from brackish groundwater. MIT ... -Brackish-Groundwater-1024.jpg Based on measurements taken at more than 100,000 wells around the country, the MIT researchers ... around the country, appears in the journal Water Research, in a paper by Yvana Ahdab SM ’17, an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-potential-brackish-groundwater-desalinationMonitoring muscles to improve athletic training
tailor workouts to their body’s needs. MIT-Humon-02-1024.jpg Humon’s first product, the Hex, straps onto ... working on a class project together at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Wiese was minoring in technology, ... start a company, the founders received support from the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monitoring-muscles-improve-athletic-trainingSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ... air conditioning and energy costs could drop by 10 percent. MIT-Window-Heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers ... still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heatEngineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ... or dyes. MIT-Structural-Color-02-1024.jpg Seen from above, transparent droplets in a Petri dish, ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-make-clear-droplets-produce-iridescent-colorsDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
practical direction. MIT-Student-Winston-1024.jpg Crystal Winston Image: Ian MacLellan “He was like, ‘Yeah, ... mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... her first year at MIT, Winston has been involved with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swimResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
visible and infrared radiation are often naturally linked. MIT-Thermal-Control-1024.jpg The visual and ... heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separately