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Multi-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
use machine learning to develop a scalable predictive modeling framework for rechargeable batteries. ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ... joined by colleagues at Stanford University and Purdue University, will lead an effort to develop ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityTeam creates map for production of eco-friendly metals
which metals should be easiest to produce using this approach, but also identified fundamental barriers ... metals key to society today are produced using fossil fuels. These fuels generate the high temperatures ... batteries. These cousins of the lithium-ion batteries used in today’s electric vehicles have the potential to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-creates-map-production-eco-friendly-metalsWatering the world
how much to water their crops. Flood irrigation is also inefficient, as most of the water not taken up ... to deliver the same water flow throughout a farm field, regardless of how far away an individual ... then came up with a mathematical description to explain how a dripper’s internal features affect fluid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watering-worldAn implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses
oxygen saturation. In an animal study, the researchers used the sensors to measure all of these signals ... fentanyl first leads to a drop in heart rate, followed quickly by a slowdown of breathing. By measuring how ... recovery,” Traverso says. Preventing overdoses The researchers envision that this technology could be used to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/implantable-sensor-could-reverse-opioid-overdosesA legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young
on microtechnologies for the isolation and detection of pathogens. She seeks to use understanding of ... leading with his curiosity. His inquisitive mind led him to explore the field of aviation, the arts, and ... Hampton Young Fellowship administered by MIT's Office for Graduate Education (OGE) is therefore to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/legacy-curiosity-name-hugh-hampton-youngSeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
reaction to voltage serves as a “fingerprint” for its phenotype, which in turn is a clue to how virulent ... that can be an indicator of how dangerous they might be.” To distinguish among bacterial subtypes, the ... yet to test the device using samples that are not pristine: The collected bacteria came from pure ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaBroadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
— such as how the trillions of microbes living at the base of the food web respond to their environment, ... and how they influence it. “The idea is to connect the dots between the microscale activities of ... over the day, as if working in shifts. To comprehend how this kind of small-scale biology impacts ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/broadening-scope-microbial-oceanographyA Lifelong Relationship with the Institute
attend Stanford University. While there, she says, the experience helped her “figure out how to balance ... undergraduate, her connection to the Institute goes back much further than that: This is where her parents met, ... also wanted us to be well-rounded,” Wang recalls. “We traveled a lot, and they always felt that we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifelong-relationship-instituteAlumni Spotlight: VADM (ret) Paul Sullivan (SM ’80)
submarine, you more or less know how that sea trial is going to go. But with the SEAWOLF, there were many new ... somewhere else. It’s because MIT teaches you how to think. When you’re designing the next Destroyer, you ... under construction, and some new designs on the way, there is plenty to do. “I love the process of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-vadm-ret-paul-sullivan-sm-%E2%80%9980Faculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
reactions Kolpak used this neural network approach to show how the presence of water can change the outcome ... efficiency of the catalyst, so how to tune the compositions, how to tune the properties, of the catalysts to ... what you put into your reference data — so you can then use it to study large systems and perform ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakStrong mentorship through great decision-making
nanomaterials, including the use of electrostatics and other complementary interactions to generate ... department.” As department head, Hammond has set out to learn how this climate can shift into “one in which ... addition to helping graduate students make choices, caring faculty mentors demonstrate support for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strong-mentorship-through-great-decision-makingPioneering the future of materials extraction
SiTration’s technology also incorporates electro-extraction, a technique that uses electrochemistry to further ... varieties all together, and they need to be separated onto 10 different plates before serving. A colander ... can remove the water — but you still have a mound of unsorted noodles. Now imagine that this had to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-future-materials-extractionAnnMarie Thomas
an online portal that uses the band’s videos as starting points to explore various STEAM concepts. ... a coffee shop after a TED conference and later on a flight from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, where Thomas ... STEAM education,” Thomas says, referring to science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/annmarie-thomasLegena Henry SM ’10
of the West Indies wondered how to help their island of Barbados become fossil fuel free by 2030. ... on the island. Even the plentiful distilleries in Barbados that once primarily used sugar cane to ... Their first thoughts turned to Brazil—home to the world’s largest fleet of cars that run on sugar-based ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henry-sm-%E2%80%9910Jessica Xu
delivery system for a patch that could be placed on a beating heart and used to deliver drugs. More ... design makes TILT easy to use in regions with limited resources, especially compared to more expensive ... they began to explore how to best ramp up manufacturing at scale and develop a business model. They ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jessica-xuLaura Rosado
and sensor systems of a five-robot swarm system used in health care, which employs the robots to work ... When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... Asked what she wanted to study, she would answer with a bit of a dodge, saying, “Well, right now my ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/laura-rosadoThe best semiconductor of them all?
commercial uses, Ren says, “one grand challenge would be how to produce and purify cubic boron arsenide as ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ... material, “whether or where it’s going to actually be used, we do not know,” Chen says. “Silicon is the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allFive from MIT earn Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. He plans to use the Simons award to ... Oskar Hallatschek to study evolutionary dynamics in microbial colonies, investigating how spatial ... used to investigate the microorganisms, causing Lambert and his colleagues to engineer an in situ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-earn-simons-foundation-postdoctoral-fellowships-marine-microbial-ecologyRainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds
generation, the results may help to explain how certain soil-based diseases spread. “Until now, people didn’t ... natural materials, and how they can be delivered in the environment, and possibly to humans.” Buie and ... pouring the material into long tubes, then adding water to the bottom of each tube and measuring how fast ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-study-findsFaculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock
says, so the focus of the research was to determine exactly how the largest of these waves, as ... largest ever laboratory experiments to investigate internal waves, has solved a longstanding mystery ... about exactly how the largest known internal waves, in the South China Sea, are produced. The new findings come ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-thomas-peacock