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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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-unveils-its-podVelcro-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/velcro-food-sensor-detects-spoilage-and-contaminationImaging 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. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-tech-promises-deepest-looks-yet-living-brain-tissue-single-cell-resolutionThe environmental toll of disposable masks
Program, the National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ... professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior ... 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-masksSynthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength
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 ... Radovitzky; professor of chemistry Keith Nelson; mechanical engineering professor Xuanhe Zhao; and former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthNew 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 ... one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsA graphene roll-out
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 ... route to ultrathin membranes,” says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... squeezing the container. MIT-Slippery-Gels-1024.jpg A gel-like yield stress fluid, top, moves as a plug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ... requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... , a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-light‘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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffnessEngineering 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fluids-nanoscaleFaculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley
Cohen, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley. Fog-harvesting systems generally consist of ... Fog-harvesting system developed by MIT and Chilean researchers could provide potable water for the ... world’s driest regions. By David Chandler, MIT News Office Photo courtesy of researchers. In some of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-gareth-mckinleyDriving a human-machine collaboration
Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Is there a sort of future ... Guardian, is being refined at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where MIT Professor John Leonard is ... helping steer the group’s work, while on leave from MIT. At the MIT Mobility Forum on Friday, Leonard and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-human-machine-collaborationWorking 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 ... as in engineering applications such as soft robots,” Zhao says. Other MIT authors on the paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and graduate student Maher Damak. Photo: Alexi Taylor Ko Infinite ... and Karim Khalil, all from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been fine-tuning their ... Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competition“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ... particles or droplets moving over them. MIT-Active-Surfaces-01.jpg Photo shows a water droplet sitting on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themA 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 ... A good rain can have a cleansing effect on the land. But an MIT study published today in Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-findsReducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Maher Damak, research scientist Seyed Reza ... including graduate student Maher Damak (left) and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa K. ... But a team of MIT researchers aims to fix that. By using a clever combination of two inexpensive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-runoff-pollution-making-spray-droplets-less-bouncyTemperature difference propels droplets
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was not associated with this research. ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... management in high-performance devices.” Chang-Jin Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering ... MIT-Dew-Omniphobicity-1024.jpg This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers. ...
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