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Sponge 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
Energy Yang Shao-Horn, and professor of mechanical engineering Douglas P. Hart. While several other ... their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, ... expensive and more compact and lightweight, but they can lose 80 percent of their charge a month. The MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ... professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “Smart windows that regulate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heatWaves in the Deep
a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ... wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ... and other nutrients around the globe in a matter of hours. MIT-Deep-Ocean-Waves-1024.jpg Usama Kadri, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepGetting more heat out of sunlight
Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit). MIT-Heat-Collection-01-1024.jpg The key to the process ... Engineering; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering; and five others. The key to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightAdvanced silicon solar cells
Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and lab director. ... Mechanical Engineering have identified defects that may be causing a promising type of high-efficiency ... Ashley Morishige, postdoc in mechanical engineering. That behavior is perplexing because manufacturers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... Chen, a mechanical engineering PhD student. “But those calculations scale with the fourth order of the ... already thinking along similar lines. In fact, Li and nine collaborators (from MIT, Lawrence Berkeley ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysResearchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ... MIT-Internal-Waves-1024.jpg These subsurface waves can tower more than 500 meters high, and generate powerful turbulence. ... | MIT News Office yellow Collaboration International tomp@mit.edu Horizontal Researchers unravel secrets ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-unravel-secrets-hidden-wavesA new way to remove ice buildup without power or chemicals
of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi and postdocs Susmita Dash and Jolet de Ruiter. “Icing is ... environmentally harmful. Now, MIT researchers have developed a completely passive, solar-powered way of combating ... ice buildup. MIT-Solar-Deicing-1024.jpg Passive solar-powered system could prevent freezing on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-remove-ice-buildup-without-power-or-chemicalsHoming in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells
used for virtually all commercial solar panels. Now, an international interdisciplinary team led by MIT ... MIT-Better-Perovskite-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a new way to test long-lasting perovskite formulations that could be ... Tiihonen The findings appear in the journal Matter, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shijing Sun, MIT professors, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/homing-longer-lasting-perovskite-solar-cells“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Csun-box%E2%80%9D-would-store-renewable-energy-gridNew kind of supercapacitor made without carbon
researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive ... MIT-Semicapacitor_1024.jpg To demonstrate the supercapacitor's ability to store power, the researchers modified an ... Materials, in a paper by Mircea Dincă, an MIT associate professor of chemistry; Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck ...
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