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In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ... Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... senior author of both papers. MIT postdoc Sameer Rao and former graduate student Hyunho Kim SM ’14, PhD ...

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Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air

The technology was originally envisioned by professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi to ... developed at MIT by the Varanasi Research Group is hoping to reduce both the water needs at these plants and ... prototype systems, first on MIT’s natural-gas-powered cogeneration plant and then on MIT’s nuclear research ...

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Alumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels

MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ... thermophotovoltaics since his time at MIT, and Antora’s ties to MIT are especially strong because its progress is the ... result of two MIT startups becoming one. Alumni join forces Bierman did his masters and doctoral work in ...

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Crumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage

is reported in the journal Scientific Reports by MIT’s Xuanhe Zhao, the Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) ... d'Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and four other authors. The new, ... crumpled graphene paper, a sheet of the material was placed in a mechanical device that first compressed it ...

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Lifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood

Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... engines. His work with Professor James Fay and Professor James Keck in the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory ... Museum. Following in the footsteps of his father, a mechanical engineer, and his mother, a chemist and ...

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Projects make inroads on global food and water challenges

projects is one by Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering Evelyn Wang and chemistry professor ... Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) program at MIT. John H. Lienhard V, the Abdul Latif ... the program has received and funded grant proposals from all five of MIT’s schools, provided 24 seed ...

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Responsive design meets responsibility for the planet’s future

collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... “Of course, something must always go wrong,” Horowitz, a mechanical engineering major with minors in ... engineering projects through D-Lab, where community partners from around the world work with MIT students on ...

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A new way to mend a broken heart

Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship International Horizontal ... Image: Whyte, et al./Nature Biomedical Engineering A new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering ...

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Squishy robots

the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ... applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ...

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Designing Toys

Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on ... engineering and In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on engineering and ...

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Mapping the effects of crystal defects

— can affect electrical and heat transport through crystals, at a microscopic, quantum mechanical level. ... understanding of the mechanism of the dislocation-phonon interaction has been elusive and controversial, which ... MIT has been able to learn important details about how those interactions work, which could inform ...

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Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter

to mechanical engineering, Shao-Horn holds joint appointments with the Department of Materials ... Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ...

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3-D-printed structures shrink when heated

mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... include former MIT postdoc Qi Ge, along with lead author Qiming Wang of the University of Southern ...

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Turning emissions into fuel

postdoc Xiao-Yu Wu and Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and is ... MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ... chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. The new membrane-based system was developed by MIT ...

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A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water

Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... abundant components. The family of materials allows engineers to precisely tune the catalyst’s structure ... Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ...

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Talking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V

problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... irrigation. Amazing things are being done at MIT in all of these areas, and the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering Education International LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Professor John Lienhard talks shop about the ...

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Researchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid

Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and MIT Professor Ruben Juanes. The key to ... typically a much more random process. Now, a study by researchers at MIT and Princeton University shows that ... a paper by MIT graduate Amir Pahlavan PhD ’18, Professor Howard Stone of Princeton, MIT School of ...

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Wobbly gel mat trains muscle cells to work together

Development Professor in Engineering Design at MIT. “Mechanical forces play a really important role in our ... MIT-Gel-Muscle-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers designed a workout mat for cells that can help scientists zero in, at the ... in Engineering Design at MIT. On Raman’s left is graduate student Angel Bu, and on right is graduate ...

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Before the wreckage comes ashore

change over time. Oceanographers around the world, with MIT mechanical engineering associate professor ... collaborators at MIT's Experimental and Nonlinear Dynamics Lab are now applying the LCS approach to predict ... Back at the MIT Experimental and Non Linear Dynamics Lab, their LCS approach is going global, from ...

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