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High-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-supercapacitor-made-without-carbonNew 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-labCleaning up industrial filtration
plans. The company’s first capital investment came from The Engine, a venture firm founded by MIT to ... in industrial use. Via Separations, a startup that emerged from MIT in 2017, has set out to address ... MITEI Seed Grant The story of Via Separations begins in 2012, when the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-industrial-filtrationDelivering life-saving oxygen
Professor Daniela Rus’s group in MIT CSAIL. They used a design developed in the mechanical engineering class ... Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering ... recalls Daniele Vivona, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Italy. In early March, Vivona and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/delivering-life-saving-oxygenTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering, who has the expertise in ... of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock uses his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockDrinking Water From Thin Air
in the air, even in the most arid conditions. Mechanics Energy Science and Engineering Health ...
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