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Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from ... three-dimensional, interactive structures and devices. MIT-3D 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing ... Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-%E2%80%9Cliving-tattoo%E2%80%9DEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Microsystems Technology Laboratories. His co-authors are ... Yeon of MIT, along with Pai-Yu Chen and Shimeng Yu of Arizona State University. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwarePaper-folding art inspires better bandages
the adhesive will peel away from the skin with just a few bends of the affected joint. Now MIT ... kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesStudy finds potential in brackish groundwater desalination
groundwater, less than 1 percent currently comes from brackish groundwater. MIT ... -Brackish-Groundwater-1024.jpg Based on measurements taken at more than 100,000 wells around the country, the MIT researchers ... around the country, appears in the journal Water Research, in a paper by Yvana Ahdab SM ’17, an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-potential-brackish-groundwater-desalinationMonitoring muscles to improve athletic training
tailor workouts to their body’s needs. MIT-Humon-02-1024.jpg Humon’s first product, the Hex, straps onto ... working on a class project together at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Wiese was minoring in technology, ... start a company, the founders received support from the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monitoring-muscles-improve-athletic-trainingSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ... air conditioning and energy costs could drop by 10 percent. MIT-Window-Heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers ... still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heatEngineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ... or dyes. MIT-Structural-Color-02-1024.jpg Seen from above, transparent droplets in a Petri dish, ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-make-clear-droplets-produce-iridescent-colorsDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
practical direction. MIT-Student-Winston-1024.jpg Crystal Winston Image: Ian MacLellan “He was like, ‘Yeah, ... mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... her first year at MIT, Winston has been involved with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swimResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
visible and infrared radiation are often naturally linked. MIT-Thermal-Control-1024.jpg The visual and ... heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyA droplet walks into an electric field …
cause the droplet to burst apart, creating a fine, electrified mist. MIT ... droplet has always been an involved mathematical task. Now, MIT researchers have found that the conditions ... student in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics. “With our equation, one can predict ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplet-walks-electric-field-%E2%80%A6Cell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade
Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have tracked the evolution of individual cells within an initially ... “invasive tips” that eventually broke away to spread elsewhere. MIT-Tumor-Invasion-1024.jpg A tumor’s ... engineering at MIT. “When they grow, they build up compressive stresses inside the tumor, and that will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-stiffness-may-indicate-whether-tumors-will-invadeIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ... a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. MIT ... or ultraviolet light from a small LED. Ritu Raman, a postdoc at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightSearch-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters
can confound and delay critical search-and-rescue operations. Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss ... sea where missing objects or people are likely to be. MIT-Rescue-Algorithm-01_1024.jpg A new ... MIT-developed search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters. The method may help quickly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-and-rescue-algorithm-identifies-hidden-%E2%80%9Ctraps%E2%80%9D-ocean-waters-0How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
MIT-Crystal-Droid-01-PRESS.jpg When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on ... processes and often requires expensive countermeasures such as water pretreatment. Now, findings from MIT ... work by recent MIT graduates Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Henri-Louis Girard PhD ’20 with professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectPhysicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
very much in motion. MIT-Kilogram-Cooling-1024.jpg MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to ... optics technicians examining one of LIGO’s mirrors. Image Courtesy of Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab In the last ... time, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have cooled a large, human-scale object to close to its motional ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateDesigning exploratory robots that collect data for marine scientists
chemical anomaly associated with the annual ice-cover retreat. MIT_VICTORIA-PRESTON_01-1024.jpg Victoria ... Preston, a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI joint program, is helping to design robots that can independently ... a joint program between MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her co-advisors, Anna Michel and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-exploratory-robots-collect-data-marine-scientistsInflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “There’s huge potential to make ... include MIT postdoc Shaoting Lin, along with Guoying Gu, Xiangyang Zhu, and collaborators at Shanghai Jiao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlNew gels could help the medicine go down
easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ... Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-downSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
scratch for another chance at a prize. MIT_Reflex-Grip-02-PRESS.jpg The research team, from left to right: ... Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ... SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesTechnique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental state
a large scale, especially with single-cell resolution, but a team of MIT researchers has now found a way ... a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. MIT-CellDensity-01-press_1024x768.jpg The ... Biomedical Engineering. The paper’s lead author is MIT Research Scientist Weida (Richard) Wu. Measuring ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-rapidly-measures-cells%E2%80%99-density-reflecting-health-and-developmental-state