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Whales Dine with Their Own Kind
PhD ’02, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. “Maybe ... Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with their students, are co-authors of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindA New Mechanism for Catalyzing the Splitting of Water
nature of the electronic structure in cobalt and oxygen,” MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Xi ... possibility of electric cars that run on water with ranges similar to gas powered cars,” says University of ... structure of ideal perovskites: This work clearly shows the importance of defect engineering for enhancing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-mechanism-catalyzing-splitting-waterNew battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
of mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, doctoral student Aliza Khurram, and postdoc Mingfu He. ... electricity they generate just to power the capture, release, and storage of carbon dioxide. Anything that can ... Mechanical Engineering provided support for the project. Thursday, September 20, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-battery-gobbles-carbon-dioxideA new way to provide cooling without power
professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, professor of physics Marin Soljačić, ... been based on complex engineered photonic devices that can be expensive to make and not readily ... at least reduce the loads” on the electrical refrigeration systems, to provide just the final bit of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerSimple, solar-powered water desalination
Zhang and Lin Zhao, postdoc Zhenyuan Xu, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... electricity is scarce but seawater and sunlight are abundant. “This new approach is very significant,” says ... of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationBoosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems
engineering Kripa Varanasi and Yang Shao-Horn, and recent graduate Jonathan Hwang PhD ’19. “Carbon dioxide ... electrolyzer,” says Ifan Stephens, a professor of materials engineering at Imperial College London, who was not ... platform chemicals, such as ethylene, from waste electricity, water, and carbon dioxide. Ethylene is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/boosting-efficiency-carbon-capture-and-conversion-systemsIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... electricity to heat the material, and no light. Even though the thermal input was the same as in the other ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatCovid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output
mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, research scientist Ian Marius Peters, and three others in Singapore ... demonstrates that the very act of increasing the usage of solar electricity, and thus displacing fossil-fuel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/covid-19-shutdown-led-increased-solar-power-outputPesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition
On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... Varanasi Research Group developed a technology that utilized electrically charged polymers to keep droplets ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pesticide-innovation-takes-top-prize-collegiate-inventors-competitionVishnu Jayaprakash
On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... electrically charged polymers to keep droplets from bouncing off hydrophobic surfaces. When droplets containing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/vishnu-jayaprakashHermano Igo Krebs elected to Fellowship in IEEE
a Fellow of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The IEEE cited Krebs’ ... Fellowship. Having received his PhD in ocean engineering from MIT, Krebs pioneered the robotics rehab field at ... neurological pathologies, such as stroke. Monday, January 27, 2014 Alissa Mallinson | Mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hermano-igo-krebs-elected-fellowship-ieeeNominations open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
assistant professor of electrical engineering, in support of his project titled "Engineering Hybrid ... Biological-Electrical Systems for Ocean Engineering." This project focuses on engineering living cells using the ... associate provost; the dean for research; the dean of engineering; the dean of science; the chairman of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nominations-open-doherty-professorship-ocean-utilizationNew fund makes MIT a living sustainability lab
The four project teams are lead by Kripa Varanasi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Randy ... Engineering, and Danielle Dahan of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. “The seed funds ... Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-fund-makes-mit-living-sustainability-labWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process while ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... a team of engineers, including Daniel Bridgers SM ’12 and Dan Ainge ’12 — Keystone’s system allows the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsSurface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution
Laboratory and the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering 's Ocean Science and Engineering lab is ... Hole Oceanographic Institution, a first-generation, 12-foot-long, all-electric ASV prototype carrying ... MechE’s Ocean Science and Engineering lab is developing a surface-based sonar system that could accelerate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-based-sonar-system-could-rapidly-map-ocean-floor-high-resolutionA new way to irrigate crops year-round
electricity, making it difficult to use the groundwater they need to grow crops outside of monsoon season, ... co-founder who is no longer with the company), who were classmates in of hers in 2.760 (Global Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundRJ Scaringe
vehicles are fully electric and powered by a battery that lasts 400 driving miles when fully charged. Since ... Ford, and Cox Automotive. This fall, they also announced a plan to manufacture 100,000 electric delivery ... limit of homogeneous charge compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/rj-scaringe-0New electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases
researchers Electroadhesion, which works like a mini electrical charge, helps the hydrogel ‘stick’ to the GI ... lining. With a brief electrical stimulation, e-GLUE is able to diffuse into the deep mucosal epithelium, ... e-GLUE first came about when Binbin Ying, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electroadhesive-hydrogel-may-be-used-deliver-sustained-drug-administration-gi