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Making 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-touchDora 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-plastic-insulator-heat-conductorAlbatross robot takes flight
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ... in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who led the design of the robot as part of his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightSuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress
If one overarching message emerged from the 2018 SuperUROP Showcase, it was this: MIT ... SuperUROP-2018-poster-screens-MIT-1024.jpg About 130 undergraduates discussed the progress of their yearlong research projects at during the ... billion technology company that was born at MIT. Leighton’s talk, “The Akamai Story: From Theory to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/superurop-showcasing-students-research-work-progressInstrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water
transporting them to distant laboratories for analysis. To simplify the monitoring process, MIT researchers ... easily dropped in the mail and shipped to a laboratory for further analysis. MIT ... -Dry-Testing-01-1024.jpg MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/instrument-may-enable-mail-testing-detect-heavy-metals-waterHoming in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells
used for virtually all commercial solar panels. Now, an international interdisciplinary team led by MIT ... MIT-Better-Perovskite-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a new way to test long-lasting perovskite formulations that could be ... Tiihonen The findings appear in the journal Matter, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shijing Sun, MIT professors, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/homing-longer-lasting-perovskite-solar-cellsBio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ... of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior ... Nature Biomedical Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Hyunwoo Yuk and postdoc Jingjing Wu are the lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quicklySolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ... researchers at MIT have found that the way in which a tissue’s cells are arranged can serve as a fingerprint ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... journal Science Translational Medicine. Other co-authors include MIT postdoc and lead author Jingjing Wu; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ... from concentrated, industrial sources. MIT-Co2Capture-01-press_1024.jpg Researchers uncovered how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity
MIT-Obesity-Treatment-01-PRESS_0.gif MIT engineers have now come up with a new way to take advantage of that phenomenon, using an ... control their appetite, it could be taken before each meal,” says Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20, a former MIT ... mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the senior author ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-might-help-treat-obesityOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
cognitive functions. MIT researchers have now put forth a new hypothesis for how astrocytes might contribute ... MIT-AstroCyteMemory-01-press_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to ... the brain’s massive storage capacity. Image: MIT News “Originally, astrocytes were believed to just ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacityAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
a drone stay on target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm ... gusty winds. MIT_MetaLearning-01_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system ... Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute ...
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