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Sponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
and Ni say that solar absorbers based on this general design could be used as large sheets to ... How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device that soaks up natural sunlight and heats water to boiling temperatures, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightUsing mechanics for cleaner membranes
using controlled deformation. Their new approach, one of the first ever to combine membranes and ... cocktails used to flush the systems are often proprietary, making desalination prohibitively expensive for ... figure out how to dispose of the large quantities of chemical waste without causing ecological and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanics-cleaner-membranesTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Alberto Rodriguez
the question of how to develop robots that can help manage warehouses, deliveries, and grocery ... and how to react to unexpected contacts or when something slips. That is “the last inch,” and it is ... against the environment to manipulate an object. This means that the robot would use the environment as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-alberto-rodriguezSystem can sterilize medical tools using solar heat
Autoclaves, the devices used to sterilize medical tools in hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ and ... others at MIT and IIT Bombay. The key to the new system is the use of optically transparent aerogel, ... high-temperature steam instead of just hot water. The system uses gravity to feed water from a tank into the plate; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-can-sterilize-medical-tools-using-solar-heatEngineering better care
with electroceuticals—therapies that use electrical stimulation to influence cells or tissues. “What I’m trying to do is find ... of genomics. “I really fell in love with the day-to-day, the process, and how one goes about asking ... school, he had already begun to see how science and medicine could intersect. He began an undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-better-careInventing soft things to solve hard problems
in Liaoning province, on trips to farms in northern China. He was five years old. “My father used to ... clot with suction or a stent. An interventional radiologist uses x-ray fluoroscopy to guide the ... designed to address both of these concerns. His device uses a surgical robot to guide the catheter through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventing-soft-things-solve-hard-problems2.500: Desalination
water: precipitation. “When you get to the point where you’re using all of your available renewable water ... freshwater from saltwater. Professor Lienhard is particularly focused on teaching students how to understand ... to go out and be useful in the world.” Not a moment too soon. Sunday, July 24, 2016 Alissa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2500-desalinationNew scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
scaling law can be used to predict how large trucks and cars drive through this material, based on how toy ... dependent on certain units, that same equation can be used to produce rules for how to translate between ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-scaling-law-predicts-how-wheels-drive-over-sandNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
model then simulates a person’s running gait, or how they would run, in a particular shoe. Using the ... current model would be best used as a tool for shoe designers looking to push the boundaries of sneaker ... consumers can one day use a similar version to pick shoes that fit their personal running style. “We’ve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performanceHow AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies
Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles ... a machine-learning model to analyze thousands of existing delivery particles, the researchers used it to predict new ... as therapies that could be used to treat obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic disorders, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-ai-could-speed-development-rna-vaccines-and-other-rna-therapiesControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
to show that they can be used to alter the surface to produce “wetting regimes that have not been ... practical uses. The way water or another working fluid spreads, or fails to spread, across condenser ... area that’s promising is in protective coatings. Many materials used to protect surfaces from harsh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactCounting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads
study. Using their new system, the researchers were able to study CTCs from pancreatic tumors as well as ... track how a tumor is responding to treatment. “Circulating tumor cells are attractive because you can ... and how efficiently they seed new tumors, Manalis says. To try to answer some of those questions, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/counting-cells-may-shed-light-how-cancer-spreadsHow strong is your knot?
cook up an idea: What if the pressure-sensing fibers could be used to study the stability in knots? ... stability. The team first used Kolle’s fibers to tie a variety of knots, including the trefoil and ... along with the force that was applied to the fiber as it was pulled tight. The researchers used the data ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knot3D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving
could then be sent directly to the 3D printer for fabrication. Here, they used the system to design ... a maker to 3D print sensors directly into a mechanism’s moving parts using conductive 3D printing ... accessible for people. 3D printing is a tool that a lot of people can afford to have in their homes. So how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-revolving-devices-can-sense-how-they-are-movingNoninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time
others in the center have developed Raman spectroscopy-based techniques that could be used to diagnose ... RNA. So, the idea of this project was to use machine learning to combine the strength of both ... cell using single molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization (smFISH), which can be used to visualize ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-technique-reveals-how-cells%E2%80%99-gene-expression-changes-over-timeHow “2D” materials expand
directly measuring how the material expands, they use laser light to track vibrations of the atoms that ... more densely than conventional materials, so they could be used to make transistors, solar cells, LEDs, ... spectroscopy into a scientific “ruler” to understand how 2D materials expand. Courtesy of Yang Zhong and Lenan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-%E2%80%9C2d%E2%80%9D-materials-expandUntangling How Cables Coil
A simulation technology from movies is used to predict coiling patterns in the lab. The world’s ... with custom-designed cables, computer-graphics technology used to animate hair in movies, and ... setup, including the speed of the belt and the spool. The team used a digital video camera to record the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-how-cables-coilGame changer: How Christopher Weaver transformed video games and game studies at MIT
a Commodore Amiga computer. Could he use it to build a football-themed video game? Christopher Weaver SM ’85, ... useful thing,” he says. “It forces you to look at it with untutored or naive eyes.” After more than 30 ... reach of games and help students understand how to apply the power of game tools to break ground in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/game-changer-how-christopher-weaver-transformed-video-games-and-game-studies-mitHow the ocean reins in global warming
oceanographic projects, including U.K. RAPID and U.S. CLIVAR, have started to continuously monitor how the ... uptake.” Ultimately, the study critiques how the field uses observations in estimating the climate’s ... warming than anticipated,” Armour says. Showing how we must look up to the clouds and down to the deep ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-ocean-reins-global-warmingQ&A: How MITHIC is fostering a culture of collaboration at MIT
Computer Science and Esther Duflo in Economics. The two of them are looking at how they can use AI to help ... to MITHIC and MIT’s engineering enterprise. Q: How does MITHIC fit into MIT’s broader mission? ... mission as using technology and many other things to make impact in the world, especially social impact. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-how-mithic-fostering-culture-collaboration-mit