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A Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?
Engineering — as well as MIT principal research scientist Ivan Celanovic, postdoc Ognjen Ilic, and Purdue ... country has banned or is phasing out the inefficient technology. Now, researchers at MIT and Purdue ... Nanotechnology by three MIT professors — Marin Soljačić, professor of physics; John Joannopoulos, the Francis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanophotonic-comeback-incandescent-bulbsA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeHidden 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-wavesEven 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 ... -CapturingHumidity1024.jpg MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ... thermal regulation,” says Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... experiments — including one in which they simply placed the solar sponge on the roof of MIT’s Building 3 — the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsStudy: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions
of these observed catalytic activities is not well-understood. Now, a team at MIT has shown that in ... are being reported this week in the journal Nature Chemistry, in a paper by recent MIT graduate ... others. MIT-Catalyzing-Oxygen-1.jpg New research shows that when metal oxide (flat array of atoms at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-some-catalysts-contribute-their-own-oxygen-reactionsSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
MIT-Polymer-1.jpg A scanning transmission electron micrograph (STEM) of the polymer material shows its division into ... Photo by: Asli Ugur Now researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have explained how ... the difficulty in explaining how they work, says Asli Ugur, an MIT postdoc and lead author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersSimple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ... efficient, low-cost water source. MIT-Portable-Desalination-1024.jpg Tests on an MIT building rooftop showed ... appearing today in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, authored by MIT doctoral students Lenan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ... a time,” says Sai Nithin Kantareddy, a PhD student in the MIT Auto-ID Laboratory. “This work is basically ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
support from the MIT Energy Initiative, the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science, and the MIT Edgerton Center. Initial tests were conducted on a dynamometer, ... MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process while ... a team of engineers, including Daniel Bridgers SM ’12 and Dan Ainge ’12 — Keystone’s system allows the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downWaves in the Deep
a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ... wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ... and other nutrients around the globe in a matter of hours. MIT-Deep-Ocean-Waves-1024.jpg Usama Kadri, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionResearchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ... MIT-Internal-Waves-1024.jpg These subsurface waves can tower more than 500 meters high, and generate powerful turbulence. ... | MIT News Office yellow Collaboration International tomp@mit.edu Horizontal Researchers unravel secrets ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-unravel-secrets-hidden-wavesA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons. MIT ... be able to make these batteries anywhere at low cost,” says Alsym co-founder and MIT Professor Kripa ... a telecommunications company with serial entrepreneurs and longtime members of the MIT community Ray Stata ’57, SM ’58 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futureNew 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-carbonInnovating for health equity
works as a crew chief for MIT EMS and leads the Stop the Bleed program, an emergency-care training ... a team of bioengineers, mechanical engineers, and social scientists from MIT EMS and Harvard’s Crimson ... Throughout her time at MIT, senior Abigail Schipper has volunteered as an EMT with MIT EMS, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovating-health-equitySenior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing
has also been involved in the Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program, which helps MIT engineering ... started thinking about college, she began looking abroad for opportunities to study engineering. MIT ... different subjects at the Institute, within engineering and beyond. She particularly appreciates MIT’s HASS ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/senior-larissa-senatus-learns-about-world-doing