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Batch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach

water is energy-intensive. A team of MIT researchers has responded by creating new designs for reverse ... could substantially reduce the energy use of future desalination systems. The team is co-led by two MIT ... Latif Jameel Professor of Water at MIT. The study was published in the journal Water Research and ...

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Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions

The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center, one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s ... meet these challenges with a cohort of industry members that are supporting promising MIT research, ... resulted in 15 entries by MIT researchers. “The application process revealed a great deal of interest from ...

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How to float your coffee creamer

able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... engineering, John Bush, professor of applied mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, and Gareth ... A drop or two of cold cream in hot coffee can go a long way toward improving one’s morning. But ...

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MIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger

first-year orientation in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “Every year we follow ... | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Horizontal A new study by MIT researchers including MechE ... repeated in pop-science videos: An egg is strongest when dropped vertically, on its ends. But when MIT ...

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How cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components

Under a microscope, a cell’s cytoplasm can resemble a tiny underwater version of New York’s Times ... Square: Thousands of proteins swarm through a cytoplasm’s watery environment, coming together and breaking ... crowded, ever-changing cytoplasmic space to deliver materials to various parts of a cell. Now engineers at ...

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Synthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion

By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ... Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... Junwei Li, a postdoc at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the lead author of the ...

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Student Spotlight: Melinda Hale (PhD ’13) and Allison Yost (SM ’12)

couldn’t do it without the MIT entrepreneurial community, comprising an army of faculty, students, and ... years, she has been an organizer of the MIT Global Startup Workshop, which began as part of the MIT $100K ... MIT students become successful entrepreneurs. This past year she was the managing director of the ...

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Scientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene

explored for applications in electronics, Piran Kidambi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Department of Energy and a Lindemann Trust Fellowship. Tuesday, June 27, 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... Dialysis, in the most general sense, is the process by which molecules filter out of one solution, ...

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Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration

MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, will explore whether Alzheimer’s pathology is driven by ... Ridge-Pappis, wife of the late James Pappis ScD ’59; the Marc Haas Foundation; and the family of former MIT ... Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of ...

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Crumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage

National 1000 Talents Program of China. Friday, October 3, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red ... devices. When someone crumples a sheet of paper, that usually means it’s about to be thrown away. But ... researchers have now found that crumpling a piece of graphene “paper” — a material formed by bonding together ...

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An all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment

stick with their treatment regimen. A team of MIT researchers has now come up with a new approach to ... the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... same needle. This could eventually make the process of managing diabetes even more streamlined. MIT ...

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Rogue Wave Ahead

developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... New prediction tool gives 2-3 minute warning of incoming rogue waves. Sailing history is rife with ...

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Tabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible

scientist in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). Through on-campus learning, participants ... factory was originally  built by a group of MIT graduate students in 2022 as their thesis project in the ... in 2022, MIT has co-hosted two courses led by Tec faculty: “Mechatronics Design: (Re) Design of ...

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Tonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive

tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... industry, taking a research position at Evergreen Solar, a solar-cell company spun out of MIT. But ... opportunity to push the needle” on energy and climate change, he joined the faculty of MIT’s Department of ...

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