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Extending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries

Energy Yang Shao-Horn, and professor of mechanical engineering Douglas P. Hart. While several other ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteries

Sun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam

Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steam

From microfluidics to metastasis

Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute. As luck and lunch lines would have ...

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Engineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors

assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-make-clear-droplets-produce-iridescent-colors

Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately

Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separately

MIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing

Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testing

Experiments reveal the physics of evaporation

of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and three others at MIT and Tokyo ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporation

This flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes

lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changes

Oobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable

store, buy cornstarch, then turn on your faucet,” says Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictable

For cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better

professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-better

Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics

functionality, in one flexible chip,” says Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-mix-and-match-materials-make-new-stretchy-electronics

Probing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materials

Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination

completely edible, nontoxic, and can be used as a food ingredient, and it’s mechanically robust enough to ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/velcro-food-sensor-detects-spoilage-and-contamination

A streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys

Chen, a mechanical engineering PhD student. “But those calculations scale with the fourth order of the ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloys

What will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?

speculation about [deep-sea-mining’s] environmental impact,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical ...

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Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly

of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quickly

Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control

mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “There’s huge potential to make ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-control

Ancient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT

engineering and mechanical engineering major who graduated in May. She spoke above the “thwump, thwump” sound ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ancient-african-smelting-technique-sparks-anew-mit

Wiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence

Hosoi, who is the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering as well as an applied math ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wiggling-toward-bio-inspired-machine-intelligence

How to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand

options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ...

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