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Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
of Mechanical Engineering, pursues new design principles for high-performance battery materials that ... Dincă and Hart, Sferza also recruited mechanical engineering student Patricia Das ’17 and chemical ... engineering and chemistry student Angela Cai ’19, whose research at Santa Agata Bolognese cemented and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lamborghini-and-mit-pave-way-electric-supercar-futureModel quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... 15, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education International Horizontal ... MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-quantifies-impact-quarantine-measures-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadUnderstanding and treating disease
conducting represents just one example of how mechanical engineering researchers across a diverse range of ... of prosthetic feet or building cheaper wheelchairs, mechanical engineers are finding ways to improve ... organelles in the cell, or using genetic circuits to create stem cells, mechanical engineers are shaping both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-and-treating-diseaseRainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds
Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “It’s a very common phenomenon, and it ... an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University, says that scientists have long ... mechanism that releases this aroma, as well as other aerosols, into the environment. Using high-speed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-study-findsNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ... mechanism that feeds polymer material through a nozzle at high force; and a laser, built into the printhead, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsHow 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-slideSynthetic 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 ... surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor, as MIT engineers reported in 2019, is made from the toughest known ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthDevice 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-100kHow strong is your knot?
experienced the greatest stress or pressure. Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, was ... mathematicians and engineers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how stable a knot is, based on ... their results today in the journal Science. Pressure’s color In 2018, Kolle’s group engineered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotA graphene roll-out
route to ultrathin membranes,” says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ... who is now a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightThe environmental toll of disposable masks
professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior ... Program, the National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ... MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Adam Wentworth, a research engineer at Brigham and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masksMIT 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 ... MacArthur Professor of Chemistry, and Alexander Klibanov, the Novartis Professor of Biological Engineering ... marrying this scientific discovery to an engineered product that meets a genuine need and that consumers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testingOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ... 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-predictableVelcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination
MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, ... Civil and Environmental Engineering. “People also waste a lot of food after outbreaks, because they’re ... 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-contaminationWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ... through a vigorous workout. MIT-Hydrogel-Muscles-1024.jpg A mechanically trained artificial muscle resists ... damage (crack) propagation using aligned nanofibrils, a similar fatigue-resistant mechanism as in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleA light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... Esther and Harold E. Edergton Career Development Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Buie and his colleagues identified a mechanism by which rain produces aerosols: As a falling droplet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-findsNew method for propulsion in fluids
journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... propel objects. In the natural world, the mechanism may influence the motion of icebergs floating on the ... such follow-up experiments, to figure out “whether the effect can be exploited, in an engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsFaculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley
Cohen, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley. Fog-harvesting systems generally consist of ... Shreerang Chhatre (PhD ’13), graduate student Siddarth Srinivasan, chemical engineering professor Robert ... mechanics associated with the fog droplets as they collect, grow and coalesce on the meshes. Large mesh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-gareth-mckinleyThe 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