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Production in the Innovation Economy
MIT Faculty See Promise in American Manufacturing Photo Credit: MIT News Office by Peter ... Dizikes, MIT News Office Not long ago, MIT political scientist and faculty member Suzanne Berger was ... That is the kind of problem Berger and 19 of her faculty colleagues at MIT, including Department Head ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/production-innovation-economyWrinkle Predictions
microlenses. MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
sunlight. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines ... in solar-power installations, the researchers say. MIT-Tandem-Solar 1024-.jpg Photo by Felice Frankel ... control circuit. The new findings are reported in the journal Applied Physics Letters by MIT graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedBubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double
equipment and disable plants. Now researchers at MIT have developed an understanding of what causes this ... thus significantly higher overall efficiency, they say. MIT-Boiling-2-1920.jpg Photo by: Jose-Luis ... better. The MIT team’s experiments, which use simultaneous high-speed optical and infrared imaging of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble%E2%80%A6boiling-doubleReducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
But a team of MIT researchers aims to fix that. By using a clever combination of two inexpensive ... Mahmoudi, and former postdoc Md Nasim Hyder. MIT-Cutting-Herbicide-1_1024.jpg A team of researchers, ... the team found. When the MIT team began studying the problem of pesticide runoff, which is a major ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-runoff-pollution-making-spray-droplets-less-bouncyTemperature difference propels droplets
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across ... described this week in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ... mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsStudy: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions
of these observed catalytic activities is not well-understood. Now, a team at MIT has shown that in ... are being reported this week in the journal Nature Chemistry, in a paper by recent MIT graduate ... others. MIT-Catalyzing-Oxygen-1.jpg New research shows that when metal oxide (flat array of atoms at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-some-catalysts-contribute-their-own-oxygen-reactionsLiving sensors at your fingertips
Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, ... up in the presence of certain chemicals. MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Researchers have found that the ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the group’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-sensors-your-fingertipsEngineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
MIT-Tree-on-Chip.jpg Engineers have designed a microfluidic device they call a “tree-on-a-chip,” which mimics the ... pumping mechanism of trees and other plants. Now engineers at MIT and their collaborators have designed ... head for operations in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the chip’s passive pumping may ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-%E2%80%9Ctree-chip%E2%80%9DA measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind
lengths without seeing the measurements? MIT graduate students Pranay Jain and Anshul Singhal asked these ... because content becomes unavailable and the laboratory becomes inaccessible. squirrel-device-mit ... -meche.jpg Plastic sliding calipers known as Squirrel Devices, developed by MIT grad students, make geometry’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measurable-improvement-stem-access-blindWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ... do something original. We came to MIT to make things. Our decision to follow through on that became ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchNew gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
one. Now MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or ... MIT-Hydrogel-Lam-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or rubber ... Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
their own creations. They’re strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. A new study by MIT ... through a vigorous workout. MIT-Hydrogel-Muscles-1024.jpg A mechanically trained artificial muscle resists ... of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ... described this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), in a paper by MIT ... the particular liquid involved. MIT-Surface-Wettability-1024.jpg Researchers can now treat a surface ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactEngineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
Now MIT engineers have devised a new kind of wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without ... mechanically vibrate in response to an electrical impulse. MIT-Chip-Free-Sensor-1024.jpg The device senses and ... include first author and former MIT postdoc Yeongin Kim, who is now an assistant professor at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-fabricate-chip-free-wireless-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9DHacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni
heat-trapping sleeping bags, and performance dress shirts. MIT-Ministry-3(1).JPG The Apollo dress shirt, based ... co-found, with other MIT clothing tinkerers, Ministry of Supply, a Boston-based innovator of high-tech ... MIT in that regard. Instead of hacking code, we’re hacking fibers,” says Amarasiriwardena, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-apparel-becomes-lucrative-business-alumniHybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances
MIT alumnus Long Phan SM ’99, PhD ’12 is a technology innovator and entrepreneur with several ... battery-powered counterparts. MIT-TopFlight-Press-Airborg5HR 1024.jpg New hybrid gas-to-electric drones from MIT ... modes. With the hiring of several MIT alumni, the startup is quietly developing a 100-kilowatt hybrid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-drones-carry-heavier-payloads-greater-distancesEngineers design bionic “heart” for testing prosthetic valves, other cardiac devices
engineers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a bionic “heart” that offers a more realistic model for ... testing out artificial valves and other cardiac devices. MIT-Biorobotic-Heart-01_1024.jpg A preserved ... and animal tests,” says Ellen Roche, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “[The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-bionic-%E2%80%9Cheart%E2%80%9D-testing-prosthetic-valves-other-cardiac-devicesAlumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
thermophotovoltaics since his time at MIT, and Antora’s ties to MIT are especially strong because its progress is the ... result of two MIT startups becoming one. Alumni join forces Bierman did his masters and doctoral work in ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuelsPushing material boundaries for better electronics
your next big discovery. At least, that’s been the case for MIT’s Jeehwan Kim. A recently tenured ... faculty member in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Kim ... Today, Kim and his students at MIT are exploring materials, devices, and systems that could take over ...
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