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Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
The other Climate Grand Challenges research themes address using data and science to forecast ... working to solve “Removing, managing, and storing greenhouse gases” explain how they are drawing upon ... using the most sophisticated synthetic biology available to science. Q: Describe the two pathways you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasResearchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid
researchers including Professor Gareth McKinley have found how to produce uniformly spaced bubbles in liquid. ... The formation of air bubbles in a liquid appears very similar to its inverse process, the ... under certain conditions, bubbles can also be coaxed to form spheres as perfectly matched as droplets. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-solve-mystery-how-gas-bubbles-form-liquidTalking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao
the mechanics of the materials to design better devices for these specific uses. Could you explain how ... materials. Our skin, muscles, and tissue are pliable, but the materials we use to interact with them are ... can be used to design and create more comfortable and effective medical devices, sensors, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-xuanhe-zhaoMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
linked to climate change. For these studies, the researchers are using a biopolymer coating derived from ... stakeholders, and use their own ingenuity and try to match our solution with something that could actually be ... produced using the Haber-Bosch process, which converts nitrogen and hydrogen to ammonia at high ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeOur gut-brain connection
Credits: Using that system, the researchers were able to model the influence that microbes living in the ... microphysiological systems — small devices that can be used to grow engineered tissue models of different organs, ... develop the disease. Griffith and Trapecar decided to further explore Mazmanian’s findings, using their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-gut-brain-connectionAging Brain Initiative symposium showcases “cutting-edge” research across MIT
continues to characterize the glymphatic system and its role in brain health, including in how problems with ... excessive protein synthesis and protein precipitation. Using a mouse model known to produce unhealthy forms ... scientist Ayano Matsushima showed how gene vulnerabilities appear to undermine both movement and mood in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-symposium-showcases-%E2%80%9Ccutting-edge%E2%80%9D-research-across-mitClosing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
commonly used to fabricate computer chips and optical devices like lenses. But tiny deviations during the ... design-to-manufacturing gap, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong used machine learning to build ... tried this before are that real data can be expensive and there are no precedents for how to effectively ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesA new way to mend a broken heart
Ireland Galway details how Therepi can be used to restore cardiac function. “After a heart attack we could ... use this device to deliver therapy to prevent a patient from getting heart failure,” explains Ellen ... failure, we can use the device to attenuate the progression.” Two of the most common systems currently used ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mend-broken-heartTen from MIT awarded 2020 Fulbright Fellowships
Program. They will use their grants to conduct research, earn a graduate degree, or teach English abroad. ... Amazon to research the materials properties of Amazonian plants used by native peoples. An MIT Emerson ... This year’s Fulbright award winners are headed to Australia, Brazil, France, China, the Czech Republic, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ten-mit-awarded-2020-fulbright-fellowshipsMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
News. “There is an urgent need to decarbonize how we power transportation beyond light-duty vehicles, ... approach to enhancing catalytic activity could provide an important step in that direction, she says. Using ... such as aviation and heavy-duty vehicles, and the new process may help to make such uses practical. At ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsRitu Raman Is an Architect of Muscle and Nerve
useful biohybrid devices. “I am learning to build with biology using cells as functional components,” she ... pillars. Her research was the first to demonstrate that light stimulation could be used to exercise muscle. ... into animated existence is a robotic worm that uses biological tissues to move around. With her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ritu-raman-architect-muscle-and-nerveStudent Spotlight: Nikolai Begg
to better understand how he can have a positive influence on medicine. “Nikolai has a true ... access procedures” in which a sharply pointed instrument, the puncture device, is used to create ... important as working to inspire the same in others. He has used his knack for explaining complex ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-nikolai-beggWhat drives ecosystems to instability?
a “phase diagram” for ecosystems, similar to the diagrams physicists use to describe the conditions that ... bacteria and discovered how the communities shift from stable to unstable states. Credit: Credits William ... controlled experiments in the wild. Gore’s lab specializes in using microbes such as bacteria and yeast to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-drives-ecosystems-instabilityInnovation in Education: MechE Goes Online
is a statistical value to what confuses people, and it helps you figure out how to present things ... solve the problem, of course, figuring out how to videotape and edit the lecture very quickly (they ... along through the tree all the way back to the most basic concepts and see how it built up that way. In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovation-education-meche-goes-onlinePhonon catalysis could lead to a new field
high temperatures to happen fast. Phonon_Catalysis_Image_1024.jpg Using a model for lithium phosphate, ... researchers computed how much each phonon contributes to the ion diffusion process. Armed with this knowledge, ... researchers could use lasers to selectively excite or heat up specific phonons, rather than exposing the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phonon-catalysis-could-lead-new-fieldWobbly gel mat trains muscle cells to work together
the researchers used an external magnet underneath the mat to move the embedded particles back and ... to shape how muscle fibers grow. With their new device, the team plans to pattern sheets of strong, ... functional muscles, potentially for use in soft robots and for repairing diseased tissues. “We hope to use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wobbly-gel-mat-trains-muscle-cells-work-togetherTo make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze
team used a confocal microscope to measure in 3D how individual cells’ shapes changed as each sample ... different. So we thought we could use this pathway to demonstrate how cell crowding is important.” ... were applied, using optical tweezers, a laser-based technique that Guo’s lab has employed for years to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/make-mini-organs-grow-faster-give-them-squeezeStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
electrode, like the one pictured covered in bubbles, is used to attract carbon dioxide released from ... converted through a single electrochemical process. The process involves using an electrode to attract ... it to a product using protons supplied from water. This makes the sorbent available to bind more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2A simpler method for learning to control a robot
a model to data. Instead, we try to identify similarly useful structure from data that indicates how to ... is useful in determining how to best set the rotor speeds to direct the motion of the drone over ... could be used to control a robot, such as a drone or autonomous vehicle, more effectively and ...
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