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MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips
functions than today’s electronics. MIT-Direct-Stack-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a method to ... communication between functional semiconducting layers. Now, MIT engineers have found a way around this hurdle, ... engineering at MIT. “This could lead to orders-of-magnitude improvements in computing power for applications ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-grow-%E2%80%9Chigh-rise%E2%80%9D-3d-chipsFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
at MIT with Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman. Kolpak’s ... first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... unexpected ways for energy-related applications. Performance across a wide range of new technologies from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakEngineers develop nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier
Sciences. Paula Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and ... chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that surround the brain. A team of MIT researchers is now ... Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-nanoparticles-cross-blood-brain-barrierA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
concert with solar energy systems. Fortuitously, Mingda Li — the Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor ... of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... In a September 2020 essay in Nature Energy, three scientists posed several “grand challenges” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysCaroline Sorensen
MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... advance a novel project within the domain of applied science: the commercialization of fusion energy. MIT ... MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) are plasma physicists and nuclear engineering researchers, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensenResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
Environmental Science, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Paula Hammond, the ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialProfessor A. Douglas Carmichael, Leading Ocean Engineer, Passes Away at 86
in the Department of Ocean Engineering at MIT from 1970 to 1996, and was a lead developer of the ... MIT. Photo courtesy of MIT Museum. Professor Carmichael earned his BSc in mechanical engineering from ... a specialty in steam and gas turbines for ship power and propulsion. He was a Professor of Power Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-douglas-carmichael-leading-ocean-engineer-passes-away-86Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity
MIT-Obesity-Treatment-01-PRESS_0.gif MIT engineers have now come up with a new way to take advantage of that phenomenon, using an ... mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the senior author ... Health, Novo Nordisk, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, a Schmidt Science Fellowship, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-might-help-treat-obesityEngineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... environment. Unlike some of the gels now used to grow tissue, the new MIT gel is completely synthetic, easy to ... assemble and can be produced with a consistent composition every time. MIT-Pancreatic-Tumor-1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingBubble, 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 ... by mechanical engineering postdoc Navdeep Singh Dhillon, professor of nuclear science and engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble%E2%80%A6boiling-doubleDelivering life-saving oxygen
a team of researchers at MIT’s Electrochemical Energy Lab (EEL) started to devise a plan to develop an ... energy carriers,” explains Yang Shao-Horn, professor of mechanical engineering and EEL’s director. “We ... team at MIT’s Electrochemical Energy Lab developed a portable oxygen concentrator that uses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/delivering-life-saving-oxygenResearchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
electronic devices. MIT-Graphene-Wafers-01-1024.jpg Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT have developed a technique to harvest 2-inch ... materials, according to Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-quickly-harvest-2-d-materials-bringing-them-closer-commercializationTeam creates map for production of eco-friendly metals
fossil fuels.” Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Materials ... Science and Engineering (DMSE) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a leader of the current ... MIT in mechanical engineering in 2022. Peng is a DMSE graduate student. Other Applications The work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-creates-map-production-eco-friendly-metalsDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
sacrificing the cycle life. The research is reported today in the journal Nature Energy in a paper by MIT ... around the world are continuing to push limits to achieve ever-greater energy densities — the amount of ... energy that can be stored in a given mass of material — in order to improve the performance of existing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteriesResponsive design meets responsibility for the planet’s future
collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... engineering projects through D-Lab, where community partners from around the world work with MIT students on ... toured during a summer 2019 field trip led by the MIT Energy Initiative’s Director of Education Antje ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/responsive-design-meets-responsibility-planet%E2%80%99s-futureAdvanced silicon solar cells
Technology. Thursday, February 16, 2017 Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative Collaboration Culture ... As the world transitions to a low-carbon energy future, near-term, large-scale deployment of solar ... today. At the MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (PVLab), teams are working both to define what’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ... cost, flexibility, and relative ease of fabrication — as energy-harvesters on inexpensive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ... air conditioning and energy costs could drop by 10 percent. MIT-Window-Heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers ... still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heatEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... -CapturingHumidity1024.jpg MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ... thermal regulation,” says Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureWoodie Flowers, a pioneer of hands-on engineering education
Known originally in MIT’s course-numbering system as 2.70, and now as 2.007, the class has become one of ... generation of engineers now extends to examining MIT’s plans to expand into online education through MITx. ... learning the art of mechanical design. When Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73 was an MIT student in ...
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