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New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
Monument is a massive stone structure, while the Eiffel Tower achieves similar strength using a lattice of ... steel beams and struts that is mostly open air, gaining its strength from the geometric arrangement of ... those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedSeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ... strains of bacteria, [which is] relevant to health.” Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Jennifer Chu, MIT News ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... by the Office of Naval Research, the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, and the National ... Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsA new way to mend a broken heart
involving a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity ... Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. The hearts that received ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mend-broken-heartMicrobes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech
batteries LEMI, in collaboration with Professor Martin Bazant in MIT's Department of Chemical ... You can quickly run out of fingers and toes counting the many ways we waste energy. Take our ... sewage systems, for example: The energetic content of wastewater is about 10 times the amount of energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microbes-chow-down-latest-fuel-cell-techProfessor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94
Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... career. Griffith was the longest-serving member of the MIT Heat Transfer Lab since its inception in the ... born on Sept. 23, 1927, in London but was raised in Huntington, Long Island. He spent a lot of his time ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94Protecting maternal health in Rwanda
for analysis of clinical images, and was a top grant awardee at the annual MIT IDEAS competition in ... of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. In Rwanda, one of the leading causes of maternal ... mortality is infected Cesarean section wounds. An interdisciplinary team of doctors and researchers from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-maternal-health-rwandaStick with me
and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... semester at MIT. “That’s when the huge wave of exams that comes with being an MIT student really hit us,” ... me laugh,” says Wang. Fast forward to the end of their PhDs at MIT and their door was covered in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meTwo-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ... a heavy obstacle or break through a locked door. Engineers are making strides on the design of four-legged ... dynamics of the backpack move around you, and you can compensate properly,” says Joao Ramos, who developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingEnergy storage from a chemistry perspective
storage from a chemistry perspective. Co-founders Ian Hunter of MIT's Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... instability, and wind power is inherently unpredictable. This intermittent nature of renewables has invigorated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-chemistry-perspectivePowered by the sun
On a recent April afternoon, MIT sophomore Francis Wang drove out of the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 ... Electric Vehicle Team went on a road-testing trip in Georgia. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric ... will race in the American Solar Challenge (ASC) in July. For the team of 25 students on the MIT Solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunNew battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide ... offers unexpected results, as the authors elegantly demonstrated here,” Kang adds. MIT’s Department of ... electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion reactions, which may ultimately help reduce the emission of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-battery-gobbles-carbon-dioxideWeighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices
Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether ... individual patients will respond to a specific cancer drug or not. This kind of test could help doctors to ... a drug, and then measuring changes in the cells’ mass, could be applied to a wide variety of cancers and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-cancer-cells-personalize-drug-choicesSquishy robots
foam, and capable of switching between hard and soft states, could allow even low-cost robots to perform ... the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Force Office of Scientific Research. Wednesday, August 6, 2014 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office yellow ... Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairFrom large labs to small teams, mentorship thrives
Each year, new MIT graduate students are tasked with the momentous decision of choosing a research ... Professors Cynthia Breazeal (center of left grouping) and Ming Guo (center of right grouping, seated) with ... their students Credit: Gretchen Ertl Professors Cynthia Breazeal, leading a group of over 30 students, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/large-labs-small-teams-mentorship-thrivesGetting a grip on robotic grasp
— or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ... way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... fingers to grasp objects of various shapes and sizes. Wearing the robot, a user could use one hand to, for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspCreating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way
Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, vice president of robotics research at TRI, ... verifying Lyapunov conditions didn’t scale well to complex machines. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ... potentially enable safer deployment of robots and autonomous vehicles, including aircraft and spacecraft. To ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-and-verifying-stable-ai-controlled-systems-rigorous-and-flexible-waySun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ... 2017, they tested the device on the roof of MIT’s Building 1, under ambient conditions. The day was ... MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ...
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