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Hybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances
MIT alumnus Long Phan SM ’99, PhD ’12 is a technology innovator and entrepreneur with several ... battery-powered counterparts. MIT-TopFlight-Press-Airborg5HR 1024.jpg New hybrid gas-to-electric drones from MIT ... modes. With the hiring of several MIT alumni, the startup is quietly developing a 100-kilowatt hybrid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-drones-carry-heavier-payloads-greater-distancesEngineers design bionic “heart” for testing prosthetic valves, other cardiac devices
engineers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a bionic “heart” that offers a more realistic model for ... testing out artificial valves and other cardiac devices. MIT-Biorobotic-Heart-01_1024.jpg A preserved ... and animal tests,” says Ellen Roche, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “[The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-bionic-%E2%80%9Cheart%E2%80%9D-testing-prosthetic-valves-other-cardiac-devicesAlumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
thermophotovoltaics since his time at MIT, and Antora’s ties to MIT are especially strong because its progress is the ... result of two MIT startups becoming one. Alumni join forces Bierman did his masters and doctoral work in ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuelsPushing material boundaries for better electronics
your next big discovery. At least, that’s been the case for MIT’s Jeehwan Kim. A recently tenured ... faculty member in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Kim ... Today, Kim and his students at MIT are exploring materials, devices, and systems that could take over ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-material-boundaries-better-electronicsWant to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.
electric vehicle range, can therefore be slow and siloed from company to company. MIT engineers say that ... at least in any sort of accessible, centralized form. MIT-car-aerodynamics-01-press_0.jpg In a new ... dataset that includes more than 8,000 car designs, MIT engineers simulated the aerodynamics for a given ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/want-design-car-future-here-are-8000-designs-get-you-startedPower Efficiency in the Violin
fluid dynamicists at MIT, along with violinmakers at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, have ... back plate, they found, would boost a violin’s sound. A1-MIT-Violin-Design.jpg The researchers found ... a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
a limpet’s shell can flash brilliantly even in murky water. MIT-Shell-Design-02.jpg Scientists at MIT and ... its blue-striped appearance./ Courtesy of the researchers Now scientists at MIT and Harvard University ... co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ... overlooked acoustic-gravity waves.” Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers at MIT have now ... assistant professor and a research affiliate in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, says the team’s results ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... experiments — including one in which they simply placed the solar sponge on the roof of MIT’s Building 3 — the ... residential water heating, to wastewater treatment and medical tool sterilization. MIT-Sun-Steam 2_1024.jpg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlight3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... to a certain temperature “sweet spot.” MIT-Shape-Memory_1024.jpg A shape-memory Eiffel tower was 3-D ... Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesHidden ocean waves
time, ocean engineers and scientists from MIT, the University of Minnesota at Duluth (UMD), and the ... MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ... science and engineering at MIT; Tim Duda, a senior scientist at WHOI; and Patrick Haley, a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hidden-ocean-wavesWatering the world
MIT-Drop-Irrigation.JPG Engineers at MIT have found a way to cut the cost of solar-powered drip systems by half, by ... environments where they cost farmers more than $3,000 per acre to install. Now engineers at MIT have found ... co-authors are lead author and graduate student Pulkit Shamshery, former MIT postdoc Ruo-Qian Wang, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watering-worldNew scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... MIT-Driving-Sand-1.JPG Engineers at MIT have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-scaling-law-predicts-how-wheels-drive-over-sandBatteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout ... same applications. MIT-OpenWater-2-1024.jpg Open Water Power’s battery that "drinks" in sea ... the co-founders’ side project, which was modified throughout two MIT classes and a lab. In 2011, McKay ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batteries-%E2%80%9Cdrink%E2%80%9D-seawater-could-power-long-range-underwater-vehicles-0New test rapidly diagnoses Zika
MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 ... of the Zika virus that can produce false positives on many Zika tests. MIT-ZikaTest_1024.jpg “It’s ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zikaCell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
a particular drug. This can lead to months of treatment with a drug that isn’t working. Researchers at MIT have ... how those patients actually fared when treated with those drugs. MIT-Treatment 1024.jpg Cells pass ... Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ... one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes. MIT ... chair, simplified model of Building 10 at MIT, eyeglasses frames, a spiral cup, and a helical bevel gear. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsNew technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time-consuming ... the traditional approach. MIT-Assessing-PVs_1024.jpg This experimental setup was used by the team to ... a more accurate job of predicting their performance, explains Rachel Kurchin, an MIT graduate student and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cellsTurning heat into electricity
might one day become a reality. MIT-dirac-heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers, looking for ways to turn heat ... Daniloff/MIT Thermoelectric devices are made from materials that can convert a temperature difference into ... the amount of energy they are able to produce, is currently limited. Now researchers at MIT have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityHairy 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 ...
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