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Microscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly
requires scanning individual pixels one at a time. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has now ... Murat Yildirim, an MIT research scientist and one of the authors of the new study. MIT graduate student ... Mriganka Sur, the Newton Professor of Neuroscience at MIT; and Peter So, an MIT professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscopy-technique-makes-finer-images-deeper-tissue-more-quicklySchool 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 ... service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-fourth-quarter-2022-awardsWhales Dine with Their Own Kind
predators to the shallow banks, including many species of whales. Now researchers from MIT, Northeastern ... Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with their students, are co-authors of ... initially to track and study the behavior of populations of herring, which can number in the billions within ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindScientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
were excited in the process. To decipher the number of phonons excited, the researchers sent a second ... technique to study how long it takes for a single phonon to die out in your material of choice.’ That number ... like a wave, as the laws of classical physics predict. But under the laws of quantum mechanics, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-observe-single-quantum-vibration-under-ordinary-conditionsMIT Club of Greece hosts “Sustainable Ecosystems for the Maritime Industry”
of Greece MIT Club of Greece organized an event in June that welcomed over 400 attendees, including ... several graduates of the 2N (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) program and other MIT alumni, ... Triantafyllou, and Kostas Galanis (Director, MIT Club of Greece, ENG ’02, SM ’02, PhD ‘07) Bottom ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-club-greece-hosts-%E2%80%9Csustainable-ecosystems-maritime-industry%E2%80%9DThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
a fundamental level by researchers at MIT. The underlying process is the same in all of these cases: Layers of ... resulting texture. MIT-Rules-Wrinkles- 1024.jpg Why do layered materials form one kind of wrinkly pattern or ... another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingBig Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores
keep cells healthy and stable. Now researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of ... says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene ... Like biological channels, graphene pores are selective for certain types of ions. The surface of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-range-behaviors-tiny-graphene-poresSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
MIT-Polymer-1.jpg A scanning transmission electron micrograph (STEM) of the polymer material shows its division into ... the difficulty in explaining how they work, says Asli Ugur, an MIT postdoc and lead author of the ... crystalline regions (light areas of orderly dots) and the amorphous, disordered matrix, which is seen as the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
sunlight. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines ... Eric Johlin PhD ’14 and postdoc Austin Akey at MIT, and Eric Hoke and William Nguyen of Stanford. It ... Researchers combine two types of photovoltaic material to make a cell that harnesses more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedHow to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
work by recent MIT graduates Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Henri-Louis Girard PhD ’20 with professor of ... in my opinion it is also of practical importance.” The work was supported by Equinor through MIT ... April 28, 2021 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A group of researchers led ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectBubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch
first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an ... | MIT News Office red enwang@mit.edu Horizontal Evelyn Wang has found a way to control the bubbles of ... Researchers find a way to control the bubbles of boiling water using a small electric charge. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble-flick-switchResearchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
potential for new kinds of solar cells. A new study from MIT shows how these materials could gain a foothold ... Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ... Materials called perovskites show strong potential for a new generation of solar cells, but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cellsExperiments reveal the physics of evaporation
in detail at a molecular level, until now. New MIT research has revealed details of the process. ... of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and three others at MIT and Tokyo ... the University of Tokyo and graduate students Kyle Wilke and Geoffrey Vaartstra at MIT. The work was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationNew technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
a more accurate job of predicting their performance, explains Rachel Kurchin, an MIT graduate student and ... engineering at MIT and senior author of the paper. “One of the things that makes the process slow is the long ... U.S. Department of Energy, and a Total research grant through the MIT Energy Initiative. Tuesday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cellsThis ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... instead of waiting until the condition becomes severe.” Liu was a visiting scientist at MIT at the time of ... waves, which will tell you the rigidity of the organ,” Zhao explains. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organsTechnique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ... an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ... MIT researchers, including MechE graduate student Donggyu Kim, surmounts longstanding problem of light ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-could-boost-resolution-tissue-imaging-much-tenfoldCould we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ... radiation of space. The international team included researchers from MIT, Polytechnic University of Turin in ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT researchers including Dr. Svetlana Boriskina have designed a new kind of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-futureSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... sending energy bills soaring. Indeed, it’s estimated that air conditioners use about 6 percent of all the ... electricity produced in the United States, at an annual cost of $29 billion dollars — an expense that’s sure ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heatSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
feedback to adjust the position of the robot arm in order to apply the desired force. 1024MIT ... courtesy of MIT CSAIL. This could be useful, for example, for someone using tools when there’s uncertainty ... Tool use has long been a hallmark of human intelligence, as well as a practical problem to solve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceGetting more heat out of sunlight
Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... do — enough to be used for home heating or for industrial processes that require heat of more than ... 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit). MIT-Heat-Collection-01-1024.jpg The key to the process ...
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