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This flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ... and structures can achieve. MIT-Shape-Shifters-1024.jpg A lattice structure, originally printed flat, ... lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changes“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
similar to or smaller than grains of flour,” says Sanha Kim, a former MIT postdoc and research scientist ... brush. MIT-Electro-Adhesion-1024.jpg Optical image of a pattern of silicon dioxide particles, each ... the Toyota Research Insititute, the National Science Foundation, and the MIT-Skoltech Next Generation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Celectroadhesive%E2%80%9D-stamp-picks-and-puts-down-microscopic-structuresA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... already thinking along similar lines. In fact, Li and nine collaborators (from MIT, Lawrence Berkeley ... National Laboratory. MIT-neural-netowrk-1024.png A neural network that carries the full crystal symmetry ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysExplained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ... with the A being larger. MIT-Explained-Perovskites-1024.jpg Perovskites are widely seen as the likely ... such great potential? Credits: Jose-Luis Olivares and Christine Daniloff, MIT Within the overall ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heightsBubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs
findings are reported today in the journal Nanoscale, in a paper by recent MIT graduate Jack Lake PhD ’23, ... until this work,” says Varanasi. MIT_Controlling-Bubbles-01-PRESS_0.png “Our work demonstrates that ... Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT The knowledge that the area under bubbles can be significantly active ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-findings-could-unlock-better-electrode-and-electrolyzer-designsPowering Desalination with the Sun
MIT-natasha-wright_1024.jpg Photo by: Bryce Vickmark Wright joined the lab of Amos Winter, an assistant professor of ... noticeably salty, so later, after returning to MIT, Wright began designing an electrodialysis desalination ... Julia Sklar | MIT News correspondent red International Maker Horizontal PhD student Natasha Wright makes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sunUntangling the Mechanics of Knots
intuition and tradition. MIT-Untangling-Knot1024.jpg Now researchers at MIT and Pierre et Marie Curie ... Foundation. Monday, September 7, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Horizontal A new model developed by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-mechanics-knotsNew plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... their results today in the journal Cellulose. MIT-Printing-Cellulose-02-press.jpg The team hit on ... Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Thursday, February 10, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminumPushing through sand
For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you ... generate useful equations for cohesive materials like muds. MIT-Sand-Intruder_1024.jpg The photograph ... mechanical engineering at MIT, says scientists have regarded granular RFT as “somewhat like magic,” unsure of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-through-sandAbigail Schipper
Throughout her time at MIT, senior Abigail Schipper has volunteered as an EMT with MIT EMS, ... a student-run ambulance supporting the MIT community as well as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Boston. As a first ... A longtime leader of MIT EMS, senior Abigail Schipper hopes to increase peoples’ access to medical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abigail-schipperStudent teams design in the face of danger
conceived, designed, built, and tested by students in MIT’s iconic product design class known by its course ... number, 2.009. MIT-2.009-Event-1024.jpg At the conclusion of Monday’s final presentations for the ... L. Chandler | MIT News Office Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Teams of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-teams-design-face-dangerPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
MIT researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system ... MIT-Pushing-Dynamics_1024.jpg A key to compiling the novel Omnipush dataset was building modular objects (pictured) that enabled ... will fuel continuing advances in robotic manipulation.” Sunday, October 20, 2019 Rob Matheson | MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationHow to prevent biofilms in space
a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ... September 6, 2023 David L. Chandler | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Microbial or fungal biofilms on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceFinger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
perform. MIT-Svelte-Finger-02-PRESS.jpg A breakdown of the components that make up the finger-like touch ... sensor. Image: Courtesy of the researchers MIT researchers have developed a camera-based touch sensor that ... supported, in part, by the Toyota Research Institute. Tuesday, October 3, 2023 Adam Zewe | MIT News ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finger-shaped-sensor-enables-more-dexterous-robots“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ... to power the entire grid.” Tuesday, December 4, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Csun-box%E2%80%9D-would-store-renewable-energy-gridDeep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark
impossible to decipher. But now, engineers at MIT have developed a technique that can reveal these ... “invisible” objects, in the dark. MIT-Invisible-Vision_1024.jpg From an original transparent etching (far ... left to image,” says George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “When it comes to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-technique-reveals-%E2%80%9Cinvisible%E2%80%9D-objects-darkUsing mechanics for cleaner membranes
soon be in sight. A team of researchers from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, supported by ... a seed grant from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), has found an alternative. ... materials. MIT-Lienhard-Zhao1024.png Mechanical engineering professors John Lienhard and Xuanhe Zhao teamed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanics-cleaner-membranesTalking Shop: David Hardt SM ’75 PhD ‘78
class 2.830, Control of Manufacturing Processes. Credit: John Freidah Hardt joined the faculty in MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and later served as Director of the MIT Laboratory for ... of the “Leaders for Manufacturing” (now LGO) program between Sloan School of Management and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-david-hardt-sm-%E2%80%9975-phd-%E2%80%98782.009 makes its “Move!” onstage
presentations of 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). MIT-2009-Final Presentations-01-press_0 2.jpg ... A full-capacity audience waits in Kresge Auditorium for the MIT 2.009 Prototype Launch to begin. The 2022 theme ... then demo and pitch in front of a live audience, on MIT’s largest stage. This year, students worked in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-makes-its-%E2%80%9Cmove%E2%80%9D-onstageProcessing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
MIT spinoff Takachar converts agricultural waste into clean-burning fuel, and wins Earthshot ... on a billion-dollar global market — through his MIT spinoff company, Takachar. Takaxhar1024.jpg After ... and wasting potentially valuable resources. The MIT spinoff company Takachar is providing technology ...
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