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Printable electronics
MIT-Printed-Electronics-1-1024.jpg MIT researchers have fabricated a stamp made from forests of carbon nanotubes that is able to ... Engineers at MIT have invented a fast, precise printing process that may make such electronic surfaces an ... Technology and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the team’s stamping process should be able to print ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-electronicsUsing light to propel water
A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... separate water from oil at a drilling rig, the researchers say. MIT-pushingwater-1-1024.jpg A new system ... developed by MIT engineers could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-light-propel-waterResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
to explain them. MIT-Lithium-i-1024.jpg This series of photographs shows the chemical reaction that ... Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Now, a team at MIT has carried out detailed tests that seem to resolve the questions ... Environmental Science, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Paula Hammond, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialHow to assess new solar technologies
question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ... by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ... (pink). Credit: Tatsuya Osaki/MIT “We found striking differences between the healthy cells and the ALS ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DProfessor Emeritus T. Francis Ogilvie, former ocean engineering department head, dies at 89
architecture programs educated students. He served as department head for MIT’s Department of Ocean Engineering ... — then known as Course 13 — from 1982 to 1994. t-francis-ogilvie-mit 1024.jpg Born in Atlantic City in ... he resigned from his role at the University of Michigan, and in 1982 he arrived at MIT as professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-t-francis-ogilvie-former-ocean-engineering-department-head-dies-89-0Coatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces
Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... especially among the elderly, the researchers say. MIT-Shoe-Grip-01-PRESS_1024.jpg MIT researchers drew on ... that facilitates an increase of friction with a surface,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesControlling bubble formation on electrodes
bubbles that can block or clog the reactive surfaces. Now, a study at MIT has for the first time analyzed ... described today in the journal Joule, in a paper by MIT visiting scholar Ryuichi Iwata, graduate student ... resistant to blockage by larger bubbles. MIT-Water-Splitting-1024jpg.jpg This image shows the interplay ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-bubble-formation-electrodesFour researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships
Four MIT-affiliated researchers are among 28 around the world to have been named to a competitive ... they undertake.” MIT-SchmidtFellows1024.jpg Left to right: Álvaro Fernández Galiana, Fatima Hussain, ... Photo courtesy of MIT News. Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering. As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-earn-interdisciplinary-schmidt-science-fellowshipsSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
more robustly, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), ... feedback to adjust the position of the robot arm in order to apply the desired force. 1024MIT ... courtesy of MIT CSAIL. This could be useful, for example, for someone using tools when there’s uncertainty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceBreaking through the mucus barrier
a hospital. A new drug capsule developed at MIT may one day be able to replace those injections. The capsule ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... injected. Shriya Srinivasan, a research affiliate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
wear off as the stomach becomes used to the sensation of fullness. To overcome that limitation, MIT ... MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. Neil ... Zixun Jia, who received a PhD from MIT in 2023, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weightCreating “big, beautiful things”
a state-championship-winning robot. A1-MIT-Garrett-Parrish-1024.jpg “The whole goal of my life is to fix all the people ... power to influence that in a good way,” senior Garrett Parrish says. Photo: Ian MacLellan MIT was the ... a part of the MIT culture, and having the resources that are available here, are what really what opened ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-%E2%80%9Cbig-beautiful-things%E2%80%9DVapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
developed at MIT by the Varanasi Research Group is hoping to reduce both the water needs at these plants and ... prototype systems, first on MIT’s natural-gas-powered cogeneration plant and then on MIT’s nuclear research ... ’18, with funding from the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, to improve the efficiency of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-airAn Eye for Design
freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... products’ success. MIT-maria-yang 1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark “People’s strategies are so fascinating,” ... bottom line.” As founder and director of MIT’s Ideation Lab, Yang helps designers — including architects, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designWhen to get your head out of the game
athletes. Now an MIT-invented tool is aiding in detecting and diagnosing concussions, in real-time. ... MIT-Jolt_1024.jpg Photo by Rob Chron In 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine estimated that each year ... head injuries as a national epidemic. Last October, MIT alumnus Ben Harvatine ’12 — who suffered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-get-your-head-out-gameKripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... laboratory to consumer and industrial markets. MIT-Varanasi-1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark LiquiGlide ... phenomena occur at them, be it mass, momentum, energy, or charge transfer,” he says. “When I came to MIT in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesResearchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
A team of MIT researchers has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open ... are published today in Science Advances. MIT-Sweat-Wearables-01-1024.jpg This breathable workout suit ... these living cells,” says Wen Wang, the paper’s lead author and a former research scientist in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-moisture-responsive-workout-suitMicrofluidics from LEGO bricks
MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of ... MIT-LEGO-Lab-02-1024.jpg LEGO bricks, milled with tiny fluidic channels. Image: Felice Frankel Now the MIT team, looking ... mechanical engineering at MIT. Indeed, LEGO bricks are manufactured so consistently that no matter where in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-lego-bricksMerging engineering and education
to earn a bachelor’s degree. MIT-Student-Etienne-1024.jpg Senior Nikayah Etienne is majoring in ... science, and encouraged her to consider engineering. That’s when Etienne started looking into MIT. After ... and Science (MITES) program at MIT, where she stayed in Simmons Hall and attended six weeks of ...
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