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Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... accumulation,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical ... expense. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
buildings and homes. Joining Kantareddy on the papers are: Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) ... Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Combining two low-cost technologies In recent attempts to ... problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... level experimentally is the team’s next goal. Sevilla, a doctoral student in the mechanical engineering ... like pacemakers. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to improve the energy density of these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesSystem provides cooling with no electricity
a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ... engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and seven others at MIT and at the Pontifical Catholic University ... E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. But this is a different issue that has received much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricitySun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamSearch-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters
mechanical engineering at MIT. “This method uses data in a way that it hasn’t been used before, so it ... mechanical engineering at MIT, who oversaw the project, and their colleagues report their results in a study ... can confound and delay critical search-and-rescue operations. Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-and-rescue-algorithm-identifies-hidden-%E2%80%9Ctraps%E2%80%9D-ocean-waters-0Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
says Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who directed the project. ... of mechanical engineering Vivishek Sudhir. Precision pushback All objects embody some sort of motion ... very much in motion. MIT-Kilogram-Cooling-1024.jpg MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateWhales Dine with Their Own Kind
Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with their students, are co-authors of ... predators to the shallow banks, including many species of whales. Now researchers from MIT, Northeastern ... team’s results are published today in the journal Nature. MIT-Predator-Prey_1024.jpg Using acoustic data, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ... results from various groups that claimed to have exceeded the thermal limit, a team of researchers at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatFor cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better
professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ... researchers at MIT and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have outlined a pathway to slashing ... detailed in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by MIT postdoc Zhe Liu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-betterExplained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ... with the A being larger. MIT-Explained-Perovskites-1024.jpg Perovskites are widely seen as the likely ... such great potential? Credits: Jose-Luis Olivares and Christine Daniloff, MIT Within the overall ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heightsProducts of Progress
engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ... students in engineering and in the MIT Sloan School of Management, lawyers, and accountants — also showed ... small-scale farmers an innovative product she designed in MIT’s D-Lab: a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/products-progressSaving seaweed with machine learning
Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... master’s degree in media arts and science from the MIT Media Lab and had just submitted applications to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-seaweed-machine-learningTalking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis
engineering. After completing my PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, I had a post-doc appointment at NYU’s ... engineering and principal investigator at MIT’s Stochastic Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics (SAND) lab is ... warning to prepare or evacuate. Themistoklis (Themis) Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-themistoklis-sapsisTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Sili Deng
Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ... electricity and power,” explains Sili Deng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Brit (1961) ... interested in engineering at very early age since my dad is an electrical engineer. When I was young, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-sili-dengUnlocking ammonia as a fuel source for heavy industry
and Jo, completed their PhDs in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Jo worked on energy ... and specialized engines. MIT-Amogy-01-press_1024.jpg Because of the power density advantages of ... in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering before his eventual co-founders, Kim, Choi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-ammonia-fuel-source-heavy-industryTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang. Robot recipe For the past five years, Zhao’s group has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... extreme events occur,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering ... have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. Now engineers at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsNew surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor of chemical engineering and Associate Provost ... says Jonathan Boreyko, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, who was not ... away with them. Now, researchers at MIT have made significant progress in promoting droplet formation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencyThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... China Sea, are produced. The new findings come from a team effort involving MIT and several other ... Science Foundation to improve climate modeling. These waves are potentially “the key mechanism for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-power