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A new way to find better battery materials
rapid charging and discharging. At the same time, the method can be used to reduce the material’s ... used to understand and control catalysts for water splitting, and applying it to ion conduction — the ... vibrational frequency of a given material], you can use it to predict new chemistry or to explain experimental ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-find-better-battery-materialsArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
that pulls both concentrically and radially, much like how the iris in the human eye acts to dilate and ... like how the iris in the human eye acts to dilate and constrict the pupil. The researchers fabricated ... grooves. The stamp can be used to grow complex patterns of muscle — and potentially other types of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsOn a mission to measure
because you get to see firsthand how students use the concepts and skills we’ve taught them,” Kolle says. ... analysis. Each week in the lab, students get hands-on experience, using everything from accelerometers to ... the serious to the inane. Whether it’s analyzing heart rate and reaction time, or determining how many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-measureMIT engineers devise technology to prevent fouling in photobioreactors for CO2 capture
electrostatic repulsion could be used to push them away. Courtesy of the researhers. No matter how successful ... converting the unwanted greenhouse gas into useful products. The key is to coat the transparent containers ... require higher pumping rates. Varanasi and his team decided to try to use a natural characteristic of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-devise-technology-prevent-fouling-photobioreactors-co2-captureWeighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices
could use this technology to analyze how two types of cancer, glioblastoma and acute lymphoblastic ... choose alternative therapies for patients who don’t respond to the therapies normally used to treat their ... Currently doctors can use a genetic marker — methylation of a gene called MGMT — to predict whether patients ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-cancer-cells-personalize-drug-choicesAspiring to sustainable development
challenges. Untitled design (66).jpg “This research is yielding insights into our understanding of how to ... learned how to inform myself, investigate, and find solutions — to become a researcher.” Sandra Youssef, ... “My goal was to use creative, new technologies and science to make a dent in difficult problems.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aspiring-sustainable-developmentModel could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
quarantine measures. The researchers used their model to calculate the quarantine strength in these states, ... is used to predict the way a disease spreads, based on the number of people who are either ... model can process data over time to see how a region’s quarantine strength evolves. The researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadFrom the Classroom to the Lab
and time-consuming, especially for high-precision or large-scale optics. This project aims to use ... is scale-invariant, allowing for a wide range of use cases from small corrective vision lenses to ... premature failure in many types of soft actuators. In soft robotics, flocking uses small fibers to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/classroom-labLeveraging computational tools to enhance product design
know how to best leverage them. To help provide clarity, Saadi is evaluating how engineers use ... design process. She hopes to use her research to provide guidance on how generative design tools can ... engineers juggle multiple goals at once. They must make products easy to use and aesthetically pleasing for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leveraging-computational-tools-enhance-product-designA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
potentially be used in everything from ship hulls that reduce drag and increase efficiency, to coverings that ... condensation. The shapes are designed to use the surface tension of the liquid to prevent it from penetrating ... their durability and resistance to condensation could enable many new uses. The system will need further ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesA smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
lead to the correct answer. The researchers found that their new approach enabled LLMs to use as little ... language model take more time to reason about difficult problems. Using inference-time scaling, the LLM ... scores each potential solution or reasoning path. The LLM uses these scores to identify the most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smarter-way-large-language-models-think-about-hard-problemsDroplets Made to Order
DNA used as assays in biological or medical testing, or for the tiny spots used to make LED arrays for ... silicon-based lithography used to make microchips and should also allow more flexibility in the shapes created. ... New method allows microdroplets of any shape to form on a surface. MIT researchers have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-made-orderStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
Hold your hands out in front of you, and no matter how you rotate them, it’s impossible to ... scaffolds in which to assemble intricate molecular structures. The chiral liquid crystals could also be used ... how fluids and soft materials spontaneously form patterns in nature and in the lab. The team seeks to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
The mechanical system could be used to deliver drugs in the GI tract or monitor aquatic ... environments. Inspired by a hitchhiking fish that uses a specialized suction organ to latch onto sharks and ... very difficult to attach any kind of sensor or drug-delivery capsule. Using their new adhesive system, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterA scientific approach to education reform
offers a vision of how teaching and learning can be radically improved using new methods. Though the book ... sound, for example. That notion, he says, is totally unsupported by evidence. Rather, it’s more useful to ... which is subtitled “The science transforming how we learn,” is based on recent research using tools such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientific-approach-education-reformA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
supercomputers, such problems remain daunting and impractical to solve. Now, a new approach that would use quantum ... gene mapping to space exploration, humanity continues to generate ever-larger sets of data — far more ... diagram demonstrates the simplified results that can be obtained by using quantum analysis on enormous, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataDepartment News
capturing a small sip of liquid, such as a palate cleanser, then used a 3-D printer to form molds of the ... ankle in various directions using a robot called the “Anklebot.” The robot is mounted to a knee brace ... injected bacteria through one end of each channel and observed how cells travel from one end to the other. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-1A cool new way to study gravity
— quantum enough — to reveal how gravity interacts with them.” 250501 Sudhir Lab Dongchel Shin ... oscillators, which are key to a worldwide effort to study gravity using these systems. “Torsion pendulums have ... been used to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, G, test the inverse-square law, and search for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cool-new-way-study-gravityOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
autonomous vehicle that uses a variety of sensors to understand its surrounding evironment. The datagenerated ... could either be used to make the car fully autonomous in ‘Chauffeur Mode’ or help a human drive safer in ... Eustice would deploy robots on field cruises to take pictures or make a map of the seafloor using cameras, ...
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