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A Renewable Future

mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions to develop new sustainable technologies, ... mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions to develop new sustainable technologies. ... Betar Gallant, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions ...

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This touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli

tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ... by the Joint Center for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech.. Wednesday, ... to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely measure and map such ...

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Paper-folding art inspires better bandages

kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Adhesion from an art form In August 2016, Ruike and her ...

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New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste

Engineering. The study’s co-authors include MIT mechanical engineering undergraduates Trent Lee and ... environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste. MIT engineers ... Lienhard, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and director of ...

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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 ... Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ... Nature Biomedical Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Hyunwoo Yuk and postdoc Jingjing Wu are the lead ...

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MIT Hyperloop Team Unveils its Pod

The MIT Hyperloop team unveiled its pod on Friday, May 13, to a large crowd at the MIT Museum in ... Hyperloop design competition in March of this year, the team of 30 MIT graduate students, 14 of which are in ... comprised of students from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical Engineering and ...

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Pushing material boundaries for better electronics

faculty member in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Kim ... accepted a junior faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His first impressions upon ... your next big discovery. At least, that’s been the case for MIT’s Jeehwan Kim. A recently tenured ...

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Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale Teaser Text:  Rohit ... frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Professor Rohit Karnik addresses real-world challenges with ...

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Sand, Sand Everywhere

engineering major, is captain of MIT’s men’s track and field team — and when he isn’t launching himself into ... mechanics course taught by the assistant professor of mechanical engineering. His work in the lab involves ... Carrington Motley spends a lot of his time at MIT surrounded by sand. “Yeah, sand is everywhere,” he admits ...

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“Colloidal gels,” ubiquitous in everyday products, divulge their secrets

and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Our results enable researchers to determine why weak ... particular desired features in their mechanical response,” says Bavand Keshavarz, a postdoc in MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and first author of the new study, which appears in PNAS. The research ...

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Ken Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand

member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... faculty position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2011, where he has continued his work in ... avalanches and landslides. At MIT, Kamrin is happiest when surrounded by creativity and noise. “I come from ...

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Hairy tongues help bats drink up

with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ... spoons to scoop and drag up the tasty sap. Now engineers at MIT have found that, for bats and other ...

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Watering the world

MIT-Drop-Irrigation.JPG Engineers at MIT have found a way to cut the cost of solar-powered drip systems by half, by ... environments where they cost farmers more than $3,000 per acre to install. Now engineers at MIT have found ... led by Amos Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, plans to further modify the ...

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Imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution

regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ... author along with mechanical engineering professor Peter So and principal research scientist Brian ... a 0.7-milimeter-thick slice of mouse brain tissue. In fact, says co-lead author and mechanical engineering postdoc W. ...

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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 ... processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ... through sand, gravel, or other soft media can help engineers drive a rover over Martian soil, anchor ...

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New gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms

Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ... one. Now MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or ... MIT-Hydrogel-Lam-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or rubber ...

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Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices

Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and Yoonji Kim, an assistant professor in the College of Art ... mind, MIT researchers developed “ FlexBoard,” a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of ...

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Wrinkle Predictions

Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... microlenses.   MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ...

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Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination

MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, ... .edu Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor John Hart have designed a food sensor from an array of silk ... also spoiled. MIT-Spoilage-Sensor-2-FISH-1024.jpg Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT. Sensor texture ...

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‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness

bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Mechanical Engineering, developed the Anklebot as an experimental and rehabilitation tool. Much like ... at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ...

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