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How “2D” materials expand
a research scientist. MIT-Thermal-Expansion1024.jpg A green laser shines onto an atomically thin material. By ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as others from the Department of Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Southern ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-%E2%80%9C2d%E2%80%9D-materials-expandHow to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand
processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ... and does not require complex computational tools as other methods do. MIT-SoftPush-01_0.jpg A new MIT ... options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-push-wiggle-or-drill-object-through-sandHow to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater
enter this area. Now, a team of researchers at MIT says they may have found the key to a truly efficient ... Environmental Science, in a paper by MIT professors T. Alan Hatton and Kripa Varanasi, postdoc Seoni Kim, and ... acidification) and the other has been regenerated during alkalization. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-pull-carbon-dioxide-out-seawater-0In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
results from various groups that claimed to have exceeded the thermal limit, a team of researchers at MIT ... in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... four others. MIT-Evaporating-02-press.jpg The phenomenon might play a role in the formation and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatA technique for more effective multipurpose robots
a unique task and environment. MIT-Policy-Comp-01-press.jpg Four photos show, on top level, a simulation of ... multipurpose robots, MIT researchers developed a technique to combine multiple sources of data across domains, ... of these data to train a general machine,” Wang says. The MIT researchers developed a technique that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-more-effective-multipurpose-robotsLow-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
countries. Now MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor ... products. MIT-Prosthetic-Foot-04-1024.jpg The researchers working with collaborators at Jaipur Foot in ... Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingStudy: There’s real skill in fantasy sports
of your league’s standings at the end of the season, a new MIT study suggests your performance ... fantasy football is inherently a contest that rewards skill. MIT-Fantasy-Sports-1024.jpg By analyzing the ... win/loss records of thousands of fantasy players over multiple seasons, MIT researchers have found that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-there%E2%80%99s-real-skill-fantasy-sportsTackling air pollution with autonomous drones
entered NEET during their sophomore year at MIT. MIT NEET students.jpg Left to right: Daniel ... autonomous robotics after entering NEET during their sophomore year at MIT. Photo courtesy of Lillie Paquette ... 2017 in an effort to fundamentally reconceptualize the way that engineering is taught at MIT. It ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-air-pollution-autonomous-dronesImmune action at a distance
MIT-Koch-Institute-Traverso-Tumor-Gel.png Researchers from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital have ... out of the tumor before they have had a chance to take full effect. MIT researchers, together with ... Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. “Now, with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/immune-action-distanceAdvanced silicon solar cells
today. At the MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (PVLab), teams are working both to define what’s ... morishige-buonassisi-jensen-mit-meche-00_2.jpg Left to right: Ashley Morishige, Tonio Buonassisi, and Mallory Jensen of the MIT Department of ... conversion efficiency front — both at the MIT PVLab and around the world. One especially promising technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsSchool of Engineering fourth quarter 2022 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... centers. mit-killian-autumn_0.jpg Photo: Lillie Paquette Paul Blainey of the Department of Biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-fourth-quarter-2022-awardsStudy predicts heart cells’ response to dwindling oxygen
MIT-Cardiac-Muscle-1024.jpg Graduate student Anthony McDougal has developed a model that predicts a single heart cell’s ... student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The rapid return of oxygen is necessary for the ... supported, in part, by the Singapore-MIT Alliance program in Computational and Systems Biology. Wednesday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-predicts-heart-cells%E2%80%99-response-dwindling-oxygenBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
ubiquitous, indoors and out. A new MIT study shows how bubbles contaminated with bacteria can act as tiny ... can emit hundreds of droplets. MIT-Bacteria-Bubbles-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found that ... Wednesday, November 14, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new study from Assistant Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airThis flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ... and structures can achieve. MIT-Shape-Shifters-1024.jpg A lattice structure, originally printed flat, ... lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changes“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
similar to or smaller than grains of flour,” says Sanha Kim, a former MIT postdoc and research scientist ... brush. MIT-Electro-Adhesion-1024.jpg Optical image of a pattern of silicon dioxide particles, each ... the Toyota Research Insititute, the National Science Foundation, and the MIT-Skoltech Next Generation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Celectroadhesive%E2%80%9D-stamp-picks-and-puts-down-microscopic-structuresA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... already thinking along similar lines. In fact, Li and nine collaborators (from MIT, Lawrence Berkeley ... National Laboratory. MIT-neural-netowrk-1024.png A neural network that carries the full crystal symmetry ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysExplained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ... with the A being larger. MIT-Explained-Perovskites-1024.jpg Perovskites are widely seen as the likely ... such great potential? Credits: Jose-Luis Olivares and Christine Daniloff, MIT Within the overall ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heightsBubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs
findings are reported today in the journal Nanoscale, in a paper by recent MIT graduate Jack Lake PhD ’23, ... until this work,” says Varanasi. MIT_Controlling-Bubbles-01-PRESS_0.png “Our work demonstrates that ... Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT The knowledge that the area under bubbles can be significantly active ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-findings-could-unlock-better-electrode-and-electrolyzer-designsPowering Desalination with the Sun
MIT-natasha-wright_1024.jpg Photo by: Bryce Vickmark Wright joined the lab of Amos Winter, an assistant professor of ... noticeably salty, so later, after returning to MIT, Wright began designing an electrodialysis desalination ... Julia Sklar | MIT News correspondent red International Maker Horizontal PhD student Natasha Wright makes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sunUntangling the Mechanics of Knots
intuition and tradition. MIT-Untangling-Knot1024.jpg Now researchers at MIT and Pierre et Marie Curie ... Foundation. Monday, September 7, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Horizontal A new model developed by ...
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