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Hairy tongues help bats drink up
MIT’s Department of Mathematics. “We hope that our theory explains what are the main trending mechanisms ... with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hairy-tongues-help-bats-drinkHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... pharmaceuticals, he says. The use of mechanical scrapers to propel drug materials through mixing tanks and pipes ... spaced pillars or walls on the surface, or mechanically grinding grooves or pits. The resulting texture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideMIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering, and then-graduate student Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 ... professor of mechanical engineering, and then-graduate student Divya Panchanathan SM '15, PhD '18. ... Henry Keenan, professor and one-time department head of mechanical engineering at MIT. To join Keenan as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-research-seawater-surface-tension-becomes-international-guidelineSynthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength
Radovitzky; professor of chemistry Keith Nelson; mechanical engineering professor Xuanhe Zhao; and former ... Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who characterized the mechanical properties ... the lobster underbelly has high mechanical performance, which motivated us to see if we could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... project supervisor and co-corresponding author Xuanhe Zhao, who is a professor of mechanical engineering ... settings. “We are studying a fundamental mechanics problem, adhesion, in an extremely challenging ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesTo design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays
National Academy of Sciences, the team characterizes the filter-feeding mechanism of the mobula ray ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled ... Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. A better trade-off The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-better-water-filters-mit-engineers-look-manta-raysSquishy robots
the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ... reversibly tuning the mechanical rigidity of a joint can be just as important,” he says. “This work is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... mechanisms in the design of materials, such as a crumpled form of graphene that could be useful in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
Mechanical Engineering, explains that algebraic topology is key to the new method. This approach, he says, ... computationally very expensive,” Lloyd says. “This is where quantum mechanics kicks in.” The new quantum-based ... big data with quantum mechanics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ... as a recipe,” says Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ... group’s theory will reinvigorate studies in shell mechanics, a field that saw significant development in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonAlumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
the global water crisis that inspired Govindan – who received a master’s degree in mechanical ... engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alum Prakash ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter
mechanisms. “It’s an unexpected result that opens a lot of questions to address scientifically.” While the ... the material suggests that it could offer a new mechanism for catalyst designs, she says. In addition ... to mechanical engineering, Shao-Horn holds joint appointments with the Department of Materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutterGoing with the flow
mechanical engineering who received tenure earlier this month. “I think if we want to develop a better ... in continuum mechanics, which offered governing equations for how materials behave in macroscale ... Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Associate Professor Ken Kamrin’s model of granular material flow could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flow-0MIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle, and associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart. Out of ... optical, chemical, and mechanical properties. These crystals can exhibit properties similar to interesting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-3-d-print-colloidal-crystalsCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, whose expertise in optical materials proved to be key. ... graduate student Sara Nagelberg provided the calculations necessary to understand the mechanics of light’s ... their work. In one project, Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering, who has the expertise in ... of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock uses his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ... University of Science and Technology and Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology and mechanical ... Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... Andrei Fedorov, a professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not involved in this work. ... flows from laminar to transition to turbulent.” Robert Mahan, emeritus professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesPushing through sand
mechanical engineering at MIT, says scientists have regarded granular RFT as “somewhat like magic,” unsure of ... they have identified a mechanical explanation for why the equation works so well for granular ... flows, to see whether the equation, and the mechanical relationships it defines, could also reproduce the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-through-sandStretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... Liu and Hyunwoo Yuk, specializes in tuning the mechanical properties of hydrogels. The researchers ... mechanical properties of fibers are necessary and important next steps that will enable practical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchy-optical-fibers-implanting-body