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Not stuck on silicon
Kim, the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor in the departments of Mechanical ... science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared ... mechanical features. “We’ve had a strong belief in graphene, because it is a very robust, ultrathin, material ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-siliconDevice that recycles vaporized water from power plants wins MIT $100K
Damak PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate and co-founder of Infinite Cooling, said in the ... requirements,” said co-founder and co-inventor Karim Khalil PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate. During ... professor of mechanical engineering and serial entrepreneur, told MIT News after the competition. Many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/device-recycles-vaporized-water-power-plants-wins-mit-100kMagnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... shape-shift or move about through a variety of mechanical means. For instance, hydrogel devices swell when ... of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, says the group’s design can enable a range of fast, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchArtificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... fibers that could be used as artificial muscles for robots, prosthetic limbs, or other mechanical and ... feedback mechanism could find applications in robotic systems where automated and precise control are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-%E2%80%9Cmuscles%E2%80%9D-achieve-powerful-pulling-forceRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
survival rates could increase significantly,” says Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical ... Mechanical Engineering, describe their soft robotic design today in the journal Science Robotics. The paper’s ... small diameter, where commercial catheters can’t reach,” says Kyujin Cho, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsDouble-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures
mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study. ... MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo ... maintaining good adhesion and mechanical properties for several days without causing too much inflammatory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/double-sided-tape-tissues-could-replace-surgical-suturesHow strong is your knot?
experienced the greatest stress or pressure. Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, was ... mechanics,” Dunkel says. “You don’t care about whether you have a stiff versus soft fiber — it’s the same knot ... mathematical modeling of knots that accounts for their mechanical properties, to be able to say why one knot is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotSweat-proof “smart skin” takes reliable vitals, even during workouts and spicy meals
Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We can provide wearable sensors that can do ... researchers in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and the ... ultraviolet exposure, and mechanical strain. This sensor array is sandwiched between two thin protective ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sweat-proof-%E2%80%9Csmart-skin%E2%80%9D-takes-reliable-vitals-even-during-workouts-and-spicy-mealsThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ... person wearing the sensors waved their hands as they walked across a room. “Pulse is a mechanical ... by the Joint Center for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech.. Wednesday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuliDragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
of Mechanical Engineering. “We also find that compensating for sleep could be an important strategy. ... mechanics of walking, in order to develop strategies and assistive robotics for patients who have suffered ... mechanics of walking and general motor control, mostly enlisting student volunteers in their experiments. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dragging-your-feet-lack-sleep-affects-your-walk-new-study-findsThe best semiconductor of them all?
a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... arsenide were initially predicted based on quantum mechanical density function calculations made by Chen’s ... boron nitride. “And now, we predicted the electron and hole quantum mechanical behavior, also from first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allThe Power of Salt
according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, says reducing the size of the membrane needed to generate power would, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-salt“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... material, such as electric fields or differences in temperature. Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... Science Foundation to improve climate modeling. These waves are potentially “the key mechanism for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-powerSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
their paper. Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, says, “We wanted to ... ultrathin layers that amplify the hopping mechanism, “We are able to achieve ultraconductive, as well as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersHydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Hyunwoo Yuk, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a paper on the work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... possess similar mechanical and physiological properties as the brain.” This research was funded, in part, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsReducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Maher Damak, research scientist Seyed Reza ... including graduate student Maher Damak (left) and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa K. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-runoff-pollution-making-spray-droplets-less-bouncyElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ... Professor in Power Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Alexei Maznev, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsTemperature difference propels droplets
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was not associated with this research. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-droplets