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The 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-lightFaculty 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. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesA new way to make droplets bounce away
and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The key to the process, they explain, is ... In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ... MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
development and testing for nine years by professor of mechanical engineering Kamal Youcef-Toumi, graduate ... developing world. Now, a new system developed by researchers at MIT could provide a fast, inexpensive ... MIT-Leak-Detection-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fixData-driven diabetes management
insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ... on new injection methods in the lab of Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Ian Hunter, ... nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementPower Efficiency in the Violin
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team modeled the airflow through a simple round ... fluid dynamicists at MIT, along with violinmakers at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinNew approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Dan Soto, graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, and ... land instead of bouncing off. MIT-Mesh-Droplets-1024.jpg Photos illustrate how the tiny droplets ... Varanasi Research Group Now, a team of MIT researchers has found a way to balance those properties and get ...
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