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Nylon fibers made to flex like muscles
many applications, from robotics to components in the automobile and aviation industries. Now, MIT ... key ingredient, cheap and ubiquitous, is ordinary nylon fiber. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg This ... challenging and had not yet been achieved in a simple and inexpensive system until the new work at MIT. There ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
MIT-Archer-Fish-1024.jpg In addition to spit-shooting, an archer fish, pictured here, can launch itself from a near ... Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchOur hairy insides
currents of the fluids they’re immersed in. MIT-Hair-Beds_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT can predict how beds of ... flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ... author and MIT postdoc José Alvarado, former graduate student Jean Comtet, and Emmanuel de Langre, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-hairy-insidesStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
MIT-Transpararent-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its ... Kong and Kuan Qiao Now MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting ... in Nature Materials. In addition to Kim, the paper’s MIT co-authors include Wei Kong, Huashan Li, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materialsExotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ... stuff of pencil lead. MIT-Second-Sound_1024.jpg Researchers find evidence that heat moves through ... Nelson, the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at MIT. “There’s good reason to believe that second ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-leadHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... squeezing the container. MIT-Slippery-Gels-1024.jpg A gel-like yield stress fluid, top, moves as a plug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideMicrofluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing ... MIT-BioChip-Sensor-01-1024.jpg Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to infection triggers an inflammation chain reaction ... Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, MIT researchers describe a microfluidics-based system that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutesScientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
energy known as phonons. MIT-Quantum-1024.jpg MIT researchers detect a single quantum vibration within ... a diamond sample (shown here) at room temperature. Image: Sabine Galland Now scientists at MIT and the Swiss ... a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. “Our experiment, because it is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-observe-single-quantum-vibration-under-ordinary-conditionsGiving robots a faster grasp
combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... this preplanning process down to less than a second. MIT-Robot-Gripper_1024.jpg A new algorithm speeds ... MIT, says the speedier planning process will enable robots, particularly in industrial settings, to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspEngineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... environment. Unlike some of the gels now used to grow tissue, the new MIT gel is completely synthetic, easy to ... assemble and can be produced with a consistent composition every time. MIT-Pancreatic-Tumor-1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingTaking on the stormy seas
often surprisingly unpredictable.” MIT-Sapsis-Themistoklis-1024.jpg Themistoklis Sapsis, an associate ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and computational methods to try to predict ... the other. Today, Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-stormy-seasPeeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ... scales,” says lead author Anthony McDougal, a research assistant in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... micro-nanostructured materials.” McDougal’s co-authors at MIT include postdoc Sungsam Kang, research scientist Zahid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scalesHow to clean solar panels without water
a team of researchers at MIT has devised a way of automatically cleaning solar panels, or the mirrors of ... problem, they say. MIT-Cleaning-Solar-03-press.jpeg The new system uses electrostatic repulsion to cause ... side of the panel. The research is described today in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-clean-solar-panels-without-waterPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time. But researchers at MIT and the ... study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... MIT-Unruh-Effect-01-press_0.jpeg According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, Millenium Falcon pilots would more likely see ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowHow to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand
processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ... and does not require complex computational tools as other methods do. MIT-SoftPush-01_0.jpg A new MIT ... options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-push-wiggle-or-drill-object-through-sandHow to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater
enter this area. Now, a team of researchers at MIT says they may have found the key to a truly efficient ... Environmental Science, in a paper by MIT professors T. Alan Hatton and Kripa Varanasi, postdoc Seoni Kim, and ... acidification) and the other has been regenerated during alkalization. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-pull-carbon-dioxide-out-seawater-0In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
results from various groups that claimed to have exceeded the thermal limit, a team of researchers at MIT ... in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... four others. MIT-Evaporating-02-press.jpg The phenomenon might play a role in the formation and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatLow-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
countries. Now MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor ... products. MIT-Prosthetic-Foot-04-1024.jpg The researchers working with collaborators at Jaipur Foot in ... Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingStudy: There’s real skill in fantasy sports
of your league’s standings at the end of the season, a new MIT study suggests your performance ... fantasy football is inherently a contest that rewards skill. MIT-Fantasy-Sports-1024.jpg By analyzing the ... win/loss records of thousands of fantasy players over multiple seasons, MIT researchers have found that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-there%E2%80%99s-real-skill-fantasy-sportsTackling air pollution with autonomous drones
entered NEET during their sophomore year at MIT. MIT NEET students.jpg Left to right: Daniel ... autonomous robotics after entering NEET during their sophomore year at MIT. Photo courtesy of Lillie Paquette ... 2017 in an effort to fundamentally reconceptualize the way that engineering is taught at MIT. It ...
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