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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 ... that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ... commercial neuroprosthetics — highly articulated bionic limbs, engineered to sense a user’s residual muscle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlTalking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson
engineering. Over the course of six decades, Wilson’s career has been peppered with many achievements, ... including inventing the progressive fee-plus-rebate policy in 1973 and designing jet engines. But wherever ... premiere authority on bicycle design and MIT Press’s best selling book, he was recently invited to work on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilsonResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship ... says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ... engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering. “The electrolyte also enables ... MIT_Lithium-Metal-Batteries1024.jpg X-ray tomography images taken at Brookhaven National Lab show cracking of a particle in one ... of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found a novel electrolyte that overcomes these problems and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteriesPesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition
On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... 2022 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pesticide-innovation-takes-top-prize-collegiate-inventors-competitionNew fund makes MIT a living sustainability lab
Water recapture at MIT’s power plant Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Kripa ... The four project teams are lead by Kripa Varanasi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Randy ... Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-fund-makes-mit-living-sustainability-labMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... a postdoc in RLE; Yirui Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and five ... Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Environment. Tuesday, September 7, 2021 David L. Chandler | MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsKripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... fundamentals in engineering and gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams,” he says. “Coming to MIT was ... earned tenure as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He met his wife ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ... A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
their paper. Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, says, “We wanted to ... MIT-Polymer-1.jpg A scanning transmission electron micrograph (STEM) of the polymer material shows its division into ... Photo by: Asli Ugur Now researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have explained how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
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 ... Environmental Science, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Paula Hammond, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; in collaboration with TieJun Zhang and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightHow to assess new solar technologies
by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ... question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
thermal regulation,” says Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureElectron-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 ... MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... 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-chipsTurning heat into electricity
conventional semiconductors like silicon,” says Te-Huan Liu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Physics; and Gang Chen, the Soderberg Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... might one day become a reality. MIT-dirac-heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers, looking for ways to turn heat ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ... engineering at MIT. “All that force has to be created close to the surface, at a near standstill. That’s what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... material-engineering technique. Her MIT co-authors are Luis Marcelo Lozano, Seongdon Hong, Yi Huang, Hadi Zandavi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyExperiments reveal the physics of evaporation
of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and three others at MIT and Tokyo ... a liquid boils away from a hot surface. MIT-Evaporation-Physics-01_1024.jpg Evaporation hasn’t been studied ... in detail at a molecular level, until now. New MIT research has revealed details of the process. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO ...
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