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Extending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
expensive and more compact and lightweight, but they can lose 80 percent of their charge a month. The MIT ... in the journal Science by former MIT graduate student Brandon J. Hopkins ’18, W.M. Keck Professor of ... battery. Ironically, the MIT method of corrosion suppression exploits the same property of aluminum that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesBubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam
essential. MIT-Bubble-Capture-1024.jpg In a beaker with a constant stream of bubbles, inserting a piece of ... can get in the way. Frothy bubbles can take up a lot of space, limiting the volume available for ... estimated $3 billion a year on chemical additives called defoamers, but these can affect the purity of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-capturing-surface-helps-get-rid-foamTechnique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials
MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ... processes and materials,” says Bavand Keshavarz, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; Thibaut Divoux of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-inspired-dolphin-chirps-could-improve-tests-soft-materialsA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
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 ... blue-rayed limpet is a tiny mollusk that lives in kelp beds along the coasts of Norway, Iceland, the United ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeGiving robots a sense of touch
sensors on the grippers of robotic arms, two MIT teams have given robots greater sensitivity and ... screwdriver from the robot’s camera. Photo courtesy of Robot Locomotion Group at MIT The GelSight sensor is, ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and is now a postdoc at the University of California at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... local delivery of immunosuppressants. The MIT team took a different approach that does not require any ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsDiane Greene SM ’78 elected chair of the MIT Corporation
Former CEO of Google Cloud succeeds Robert Millard. The MIT Corporation, which is the Institute’s ... the accomplished members of the Corporation, and to work with President Reif in supporting MIT ... harness science and technology to serve our human family and our planet.” The chair of the MIT Corporation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/diane-greene-sm-%E2%80%9978-elected-chair-mit-corporationTissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
which appears in the August 12 issue of the journal Advanced Science. MIT postdoc Yoojin Shin is the ... Beta-amyloid plaques, the protein aggregates that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, ... MIT-Blood-Brain-Barrier-1024.jpg The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tissue-model-reveals-role-blood-brain-barrier-alzheimer%E2%80%99sThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric ... team, which has been part of MIT since 2005, this vehicle will not be entering races or competitions but ... support from the MIT Energy Initiative, the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenFormer MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72
some of MIT’s most celebrated buildings: Vest championed engagement with world-class architects to ... quality of life. MIT must continue to be optimistic in its vision of why we are here and what we can do.” ... spirit,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif says. “And there was no better example of his vision and values than ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/former-mit-president-charles-m-vest-dies-72DOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions
spaces. Researchers in the new MIT Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid ... High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions (CHEFSI) — a joint effort of the MIT Center for Computational Science ... and Engineering, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, and the MIT Institute for Soldier ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/doe-selects-mit-establish-center-exascale-simulation-coupled-high-enthalpy-fluid%E2%80%93solidFive with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025
additional MIT alumni. Election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is considered one of the highest ... additional MIT alumni. Credit: Courtesy of the departments of Biology and EECS. Credits: Facundo Batista is ... the associate director and scientific director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2025The Magic of Making
Image Teaser Headline: Mind and Hand: The Magic of Making at MIT The magic of making is told ... through the personal stories of MIT students, whose passion runs deep and from an early age. Culture Home ... personal stories of MIT students, whose passion runs deep and from an early age. The magic of making is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magic-makingNew general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales
environmental engineering at MIT. “This discovery has significant implications for the design of new materials, ... diverse in composition but all contain networks of interconnected strands. A longstanding question about ... the durability of these materials asks: What is the energy required to fracture these diverse ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-general-law-governs-fracture-energy-networks-across-materials-and-length-scalesTeam creates map for production of eco-friendly metals
fossil fuels.” Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Materials ... Science and Engineering (DMSE) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a leader of the current ... Shao-Horn, who is on the research team for MIT’s new Center for Electrification and Decarbonization of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-creates-map-production-eco-friendly-metalsData-Driven Modeling of 4D Ocean and Coastal Acidification in the Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays
available measurements and data, as well as the high cost and complexity of modeling. A team based at MIT ... work is part of an MIT Sea Grant-funded research project led by Professor Sapsis, “ Quantification of ... The ocean absorbs about a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. When this carbon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-modeling-4d-ocean-and-coastal-acidification-massachusetts-and-cape-cod-baysProfessor John H. Lienhard V Elected Honorary Member of ASME
Honorary Membership is one of the highest honors bestowed by the ASME Board of Governors The ... American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Board of Governors has elected Professor John H. Lienhard ... V as an Honorary Member. The prestigious recognition is awarded for a lifetime of service in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-john-h-lienhard-v-elected-honorary-member-asmeRitu Raman Chosen for 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in August 2021. The 2025 USFOE, which will be held ... Assistant Professor Ritu Raman, the Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering ... Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, a signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). MechE ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ritu-raman-chosen-2025-grainger-foundation-frontiers-engineering-symposiumCelebrating the life and legacy of George Hatsopoulos
Corporation. But at an event hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in January, Hatsopoulos’ ... University of Athens, he enrolled at MIT where he earned a bachelor’s degree, master of science degree, ... a business, Hatsopoulos continued to teach at MIT. Fueled by his passion for education and love of fun, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-life-and-legacy-george-hatsopoulosSea Grant, DOE, NOAA Fisheries partner to invest $1M+ to support research for the co-existence of ocean energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities
MIT Sea Grant will coordinate an ocean renewable energy research effort with the Northeast Sea ... Grant Consortium, leveraging a diversity of federal partners. The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, in ... partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water Power Technologies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sea-grant-doe-noaa-fisheries-partner-invest-1m-support-research-co-existence-ocean-energy