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Photovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
Photovoltaics Research Laboratory researchers describe using the sensors to continuously monitor indoor and ... among other things, that one reader can be used to collect data from multiple sensors simultaneously. ... Perovskite cells, on the other hand, can be printed using easy roll-to-roll manufacturing techniques for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DStudy finds potential in brackish groundwater desalination
brackish water is seldom used in the U.S. This creates an urgent need to better understand how best to use ... , according to a U.S. Geological Survey study. So, using even a fraction of that resource could dramatically ... the theoretical limits of how much it would be possible to reduce the energy required to desalinate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-potential-brackish-groundwater-desalinationTunable ultrasound propagation in microscale metamaterials
a design framework based on precisely positioning microscale spheres to tune how ultrasound waves travel ... microscale materials. They use the varied wave velocities to spatially and temporally tune wave propagation ... designed to control the propagation of acoustic or elastic waves through a medium—have been studied ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunable-ultrasound-propagation-microscale-metamaterialsMicrochip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
developing SMRs for nearly a decade. In the new study, the researchers used the device to observe the ... provides new insights into how cells grow and respond to drugs,” says Manalis, the Andrew (1956) and Erna ... and this signal can be used to determine the cell’s weight. To measure a cell’s growth rate, Manalis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-enables-fast-precise-measurement-single-cell-growthKripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
problems was getting a better understanding of exactly how the processes worked. “First you have to ... me understand how to build stuff with it,” he recalls. After high school in his home city, he went on ... — not just ‘why,’ but then ‘why not?’” It also taught him about “the entrepreneurial spirit and how to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesSand, Sand Everywhere
use on a beach, or in space, to military vehicles that drive in the desert. Mars or moon rovers that ... a graduate student in Kamrin’s lab who has used the MATLAB computing environment to develop a computer model ... determining what wheel to use is to try wheels in sand and figure out what works,” Motley says. “Our model ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sand-sand-everywhereDelivering life-saving oxygen
wanted to figure out how to take our expertise in electrochemistry and use it to create a device to make ... who so desperately need it. “Traditionally our lab uses electrons to break molecules that generate ... to an oxygen tank, where it can be readily delivered and used to treat patients. Yang 1024.jpg The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/delivering-life-saving-oxygenA shape-changing antenna for more versatile sensing and communication
fabricated to have specific properties and that is it. However, by using auxetic metamaterials, which can ... researchers looked at how the devices can act as sensors. The team’s goal was to develop a mechanical element ... that can also be used as an antenna for sensing. To do this, they leveraged the antenna’s “resonance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/shape-changing-antenna-more-versatile-sensing-and-communicationBose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
are solid state that have the potential to be practically useful.” For example, Barrett would like to ... and then accelerating that air electrostatically,” Barrett explains. Barrett is excited to use his ... Bose Grant to see how far forward he can push solid-state propulsion technology. “I think this project ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bose-grants-2017-reward-bold-and-unconventional-research-visions%C2%A0Low-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
have a lower-limb amputation, there’s just no theory for us to say, ‘here’s exactly how we should ... design and geometry? How should we tune all that to get a person to walk the way we want them to walk?’” ... in mind, the team looked for ways to relate how the mechanics of the foot relate to how the lower leg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingCompeting Mechanisms Influence Tumor Cell Migration
tissue that mimics natural breast tissue. Schematic showing the full microfluidic system used to generate ... breast cancer cells to simulate how the process of migration actually works in the context of the ... significantly improve cancer survival rates,” says Kamm. “Pharmaceutical companies can use this information to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/competing-mechanisms-influence-tumor-cell-migrationBioinspired robotics class offers intriguing surprises
thing students should learn in this class is not necessarily to understand how we move our body but the ... fact that we don’t understand how we move,” Kim says. “One of our ultimate goals in robotics is to ... develop robots that help elderly people by mimicking how we use our arms and legs, but if you don’t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-robotics-class-offers-intriguing-surprisesCleaning up industrial filtration
If you wanted to get pasta out of a pot of water, would you boil off the water, or use a strainer? ... While home cooks would choose the strainer, many industries continue to use energy-intensive thermal ... in industrial use. Via Separations, a startup that emerged from MIT in 2017, has set out to address ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-industrial-filtrationWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
enter the bloodstream — called intravasation — is well characterized, how cells escape blood vessels to ... pumped tumor cells through the vascular network, using a line of breast cancer cells known to be ... researchers are modeling various tissues within the microfluidic platform, including bone, to study how cancer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselFast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
properties simply by observation. The researchers use standard confocal microscopy to zero in on the ... devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical properties simply by observation. The researchers use standard ... that can be used to decipher a cell’s stiffness. Unlike optical tweezers, the team’s technique is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-noninvasive-technique-probing-cells-may-reveal-disease“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
and measure the exposure and how it is metabolized.” These chips could also be used to evaluate ... MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect ... developed for lab use. These so-called “primary cells” are more difficult to work with but offer a more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... time or for the minimum use of energy, or to maximize the collection of data that is considered most ... a computer to solve such path-planning riddles rigorously but quickly enough to be useful in real-world ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineTaking a break and making connections
a year-long leave of absence, using the time to reflect on her academic choices and find a clearer vision of ... patterns and I wasn’t learning how to fix them,” says Jahnavi, now a senior majoring in mechanical ... during IAP to show farmers how to build and operate a bicycle-powered corn-thresher. In September 2016, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-break-and-making-connectionsJahnavi Kalpathy
a year-long leave of absence, using the time to reflect on her academic choices and find a clearer vision of ... the possibility of a fresh start. “I was going through a lot of patterns and I wasn’t learning how to ... during IAP to show farmers how to build and operate a bicycle-powered corn-thresher. In September 2016, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jahnavi-kalpathyAdvancing industry convergence through technology and innovation
is intended to demonstrate how the convergence of industries and technologies is powering the next ... learning to process locally generated waste for use as alternative energy in low-income municipalities; ... Science and Engineering, exploring policy related to materials use. Specifically, her research is focused ...
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