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New materials improve oxygen catalysis
MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. The materials, called double perovskites, are a variant of ... Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisSun-powered desalination for villages in India
60 percent of India is underlain by salty water — and much of that area is not served by an electric ... grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Now an analysis by MIT ... could provide enough clean, palatable drinking water to supply the needs of a typical village. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaLess-wasteful laser-cutting
Ticha Sethapakdi, who led the development of the system alongside MIT Professor Stefanie Mueller, ... Laser-cutting is an essential part of many industries, from car manufacturing to construction. ... However, the process isn’t always easy or efficient: Cutting huge sheets of metal requires time and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/less-wasteful-laser-cuttingFinding love in the lab
MIT Commencement in June 2018, just after their wedding and honeymoon. “One of the best parts of being ... married to someone who has been through the MIT PhD program is you have an immense amount of understanding ... Hoburg, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His work was based on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-love-labQS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2024
QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2024, the ... Statistics and Operational Research. MIT also placed second in five subject areas: Accounting and Finance; ... universities were evaluated in 55 specific subjects and five broader subject areas. MIT was ranked No. 1 in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-no-1-11-subjects-2024A climate window in the Southern Ocean
of Oceanography at MIT. “The Southern Ocean is the window by which the interior of the ocean connects ... Filling in this missing piece of the circulation, and developing theories and models that capture it, may ... scientists have found evidence that the missing piece may lie in the Southern Ocean — the vast ribbon of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climate-window-southern-oceanBold research visions recognized and rewarded
bold, and unconventional research visions. In the latest round of grants, four proposals from six MIT ... the late Amar Bose, a longtime member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, well ... exploration, and opportunity,” said President Reif. “MIT is about making a better world, and I cannot think of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bold-research-visions-recognized-and-rewardedFaculty Research: Professor Tonio Buonassisi
Chandler, MIT News Office Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are ... Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... Office, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the MIT-KFUPM Center for Clean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-tonio-buonassisiWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ... infiltrating and spreading via the circulatory system. Some circulating cells work their way out of the ... cancer cells through a system of blood vessels. Using high-resolution time-lapse imaging, the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselPhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and ... relief after disasters. Brennan is currently collaborating with a team of researchers at the MIT Sloan ... School of Management, MIT D-Lab, and DUSP on a J-WAFS-funded project that is investigating ways to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutions2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
classic experiences of an MIT undergraduate, when edX releases 2.03x Dynamics on Oct. 28. Mechanical ... Engineering is the second largest engineering department at MIT, and this version of the popular Dynamics ... opportunity to give the outside world a taste of a genuine MIT education. “One of the reasons I accepted this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/203x-dynamics-aims-improve-learning-and-campusIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
senior author of both papers. MIT postdoc Sameer Rao and former graduate student Hyunho Kim SM ’14, PhD ... ’18 were the lead authors of the latest paper, along with four others at MIT and the University of ... Sungwoo Yang at MIT; and professor of chemistry Omar Yaghi at Berkeley and at King Abdulaziz City for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airNoninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
the resolution of captured images. Now, MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than ... Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering; and other MIT colleagues. The research appears today ... doubles the usual depth limit of metabolic imaging. Their method also boosts imaging speeds, yielding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-method-can-penetrate-deeper-living-tissueSensing the world around us
magnificent.” Minchew’s group is working with other researchers at MIT to build a drone capable of flying for ... MIT.nano Immersion Lab. This unique research space, located on the third floor of MIT.nano, provides an ... visualization — across MIT,” says Anthony. “Many of our speakers talked about collaboration and the importance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-us2022-23 Takeda Fellows: Leveraging AI to positively impact human health
The MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda ... the next generation of AI and system-level breakthroughs, the MIT-Takeda Program is also creating ... Pharmaceuticals Company, fuels the development and application of artificial intelligence capabilities to benefit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2022-23-takeda-fellows-leveraging-ai-positively-impact-human-healthBreakthrough in boiling
associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, has made a significant breakthrough in ... describes its work in the March 11 issue of Applied Physics Letters. Baglietto, who arrived at MIT in 2011, ... Engineers must manage a maelstrom in the core of operating nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breakthrough-boilingChisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert ... Martin Professor of Environmental Studies, was presented the National Medal of Science for her research ... National Medal of Science — received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for inventing new and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/chisholm-langer-receive-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-honors-scientists-and-inventorsMechE-ChemE Startup Named Gold Winner at 2014 MassChallenge
Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Collaboration Education Entrepreneurship kripa@mit.edu ... emissions. DropWise, a new startup created by Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) Associate ... Professor Kripa Varanasi; Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE) Professor and Associate Provost Karen ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-cheme-startup-named-gold-winner-2014-masschallengeBuie, Kim receive DARPA Young Faculty Award
Assistant Professors Cullen Buie and Sangbae Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering both ... from a group of 226 applicants. As YFA recipients, Professors Buie and Kim will each receive up to $1 ... million in funding over the course of three years to develop their research in conjunction with DARPA ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/buie-kim-receive-darpa-young-faculty-awardTurning emissions into fuel
chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. The new membrane-based system was developed by MIT ... University of Science and Technology. Monday, November 27, 2017 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Culture ... MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuel