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Crumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
d'Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and four other authors. The new, ... systems. Like batteries, supercapacitors can store electrical energy, but they primarily do so ... exciting and amazing to me,” says Dan Li, a professor of materials engineering at Monash University in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageLifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood
From identifying the source of emissions to analyzing the future of automotive engineering ... engines. His work with Professor James Fay and Professor James Keck in the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory ... in the 1960s and 1970s led to seminal contributions to the science of automotive and aircraft engines ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodMaterials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium
Engineering. “To meet the climate targets we set for 2050, all of our new systems must be low- or no-emissions ... the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Department of Architecture who ... specializes in sustainable architecture, emphasized the need for architects and engineers to work together ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials%E2%80%99-key-role-addressing-climate-change-focus-materials-day-symposiumPitching transformative design
class 22.033 (Nuclear Science and Engineering Design), “We’re pretty nervous,” said Jared Wilson, a senior ... a commercially viable way through the application of nuclear science and engineering. Guided by class instructor ... Zachary Hartwig, the John C. Hardwick Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, three teams ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pitching-transformative-designBreakthrough in boiling
associate department head for nuclear science and engineering. Using electrically simulated heaters with ... Engineers must manage a maelstrom in the core of operating nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactions ... associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, has made a significant breakthrough in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breakthrough-boilingA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ... engine or fuel cell without generating carbon emissions. What’s more, this simple reaction can be sped up ... by adding a common stimulant: caffeine. zero-emissions fuel.jpg MIT engineers Aly Kombargi (left) and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineCooling homes without warming the planet
conditioning is currently responsible for almost 20 percent of electricity use in buildings around the world. ... invented 100 years ago,” says Transaera chief engineer Ross Bonner SM ’20. That will change rapidly if ... ’07, who is also a lecturer at MIT D-Lab, and CTO Matt Dorson, a mechanical engineer who worked with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-homes-without-warming-planetUnleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells
mix could improve the material’s efficiency at converting solar energy to electricity, from about 19 ... the team describes it, these additives help to “homogenize” the mixture, making it conduct electricity ... science and engineering at Georgia Tech. What the researchers found, after about three years of work at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-perovskites%E2%80%99-potential-solar-cellsSurface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize
MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... ’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ... used around the world, this advance could help increase global electricity production by 500 terawatt ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-coating-designed-improve-power-plant-efficiency-wins-2022-water-innovation-prizeSensing the world around us
in Media Arts & Sciences and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ... positioning transforms the world,” he said. At the intersection of electrical engineering, communications, and ... principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, spoke about his work on robotic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
batteries, which are used in everything from electric cars to portable electronics and have improved ... mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... electrolyte — the material that lies between the two electrical poles of the battery, the cathode and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesNew technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
measure the electrical output of a sample of solar cell material, under controlled conditions of varying ... movement produces an electric current through a material. But in the case of photovoltaic (PV) materials, ... engineering at MIT and senior author of the paper. “One of the things that makes the process slow is the long ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cellsStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
electricity production. But deeply decarbonizing industries like cement or steel production is challenging and ... says, could be entirely powered with renewable electricity rather than fossil-fuel-derived steam. Their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2The Quest for Clean Water
prepared for her safety and comfort. There is no reliable electricity. Everyone's problem ... Amos Winter, director of the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at the MIT Department of ... Mechanical Engineering. “They don’t map over, because when you start looking into the requirements, they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-clean-water“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"
Pollution Act in 1990. Willemann graduated with a B.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from ... engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... markets pick up. New opportunities in ocean engineering systems management Professor Marcus, now retired, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-whosoever-commands-sea-commands-tradeProsper Nyovanie
just go to sleep because the electricity wouldn’t be there. And then I’d wake up at 2 a.m. and start ... studying … because by then you’d usually have electricity.” “The best thing about being at MIT is that ... engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in mechanical engineering. He discovered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/prosper-nyovanie-1MechE announces three new appointments
Laboratory (CSAIL). He earned a BSEE in Electrical Engineering and Science from the University of ... Mechanical Engineering, and Professor John Leonard has been appointed associate head for research, both ... provide oversight of its machine shops. Hosoi joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2002 as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-announces-three-new-appointmentsNews & Awards: Winter 2019
Research Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her leadership ... A group of alumni gathered in the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Undergraduate Office on September ... Engineering Workshop which introduced thirty-four of the brightest women graduate students, post-docs, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-winter-2019Squishy robots
the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... a new paper in the journal Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, could also be used in ... state with the application of a magnetic or electric field. When it comes to artificial muscles for soft ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robots3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers
engineering and MIT’s “Maker Czar,” asked students what they build, where they work, what kinds of equipment ... others, it means working on the Electric Vehicle Team, or doing a UROP [Undergraduate Research ... — as in, “I’m an engineer: I prototype and make things.” And for others it means being part of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-martin-culpepper-making-future-makers