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Moving water and earth
these very scary degrees of freedom,” says Kamrin, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Shape ... sediment over time. Knowing how quickly or slowly this sediment flows can help engineers plan for the ... flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthCould we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ... adoption as a wearable textile. Now, MIT engineers have spun polyethylene into fibers and yarns designed to ... more quickly than common textiles such as cotton, nylon, and polyester. MIT-PE-Fabrics-1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-futureResearchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere outlines a roadmap for how this promising technology could move from the ... laboratory to a significant place in the global solar market. MIT-Scaling-Perovskite-1024.jpg Perovskites, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cellsA new way to provide cooling without power
professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, professor of physics Marin Soljačić, ... MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... metal suspended above the device blocks the sun’s direct rays. MIT-Radiative-Cooling_1024.jpg Two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerHow to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion
doctoral students Simon Rufer, Tal Joseph, and Zara Aamer, and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa ... make the other part worse. Now, using nanoscale filtering membranes, researchers at MIT have added ... percent, they say. The new findings are reported today in the journal ACS Energy Letters, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-solve-bottleneck-co2-capture-and-conversionNew technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
engineering at MIT and senior author of the paper. “One of the things that makes the process slow is the long ... MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time-consuming ... the traditional approach. MIT-Assessing-PVs_1024.jpg This experimental setup was used by the team to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cellsSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT ... -Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg An MIT study shows that electrical vehicle batteries could have a useful and profitable second life ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteriesStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
Kong and Kuan Qiao Now MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting ... Development Associate Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and ... MIT-Transpararent-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materialsStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ... from concentrated, industrial sources. MIT-Co2Capture-01-press_1024.jpg Researchers uncovered how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ... behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ... stuff of pencil lead. MIT-Second-Sound_1024.jpg Researchers find evidence that heat moves through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-leadHow to clean solar panels without water
graduate student Sreedath Panat and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Despite concerted ... a team of researchers at MIT has devised a way of automatically cleaning solar panels, or the mirrors of ... problem, they say. MIT-Cleaning-Solar-03-press.jpeg The new system uses electrostatic repulsion to cause ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-clean-solar-panels-without-waterA material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
MIT-Thermal-Conductivity-1024.jpg Researchers found that strontium cobalt oxide (SCO) naturally occurs in an atomic configuration ... conductive. Image: courtesy of the researchers Now, a team of researchers at MIT have made a major leap ... Nature Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Bilge Yildiz and Gang Chen, recent graduates Qiyang Lu PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-willAddressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
Engineer Eric Verploegen of MIT D-Lab have released their open-source design for a forced-air ... Glicksman, a professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, drew on his previous research in ... mechanical engineering Dan Frey contributed to the market research phase of the project and the initial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/addressing-food-insecurity-arid-regions-open-source-evaporative-cooling-chamber-designVapor-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-airAlumnus’ 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuelsA 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mend-broken-heartSquishy 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsMerging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds
artist at MIT Sea Grant Keith Ellenbogen and MIT mechanical engineering PhD student Andreas ... The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific ... Credit: Keith Ellenbogen A new research initiative developing at MIT Sea Grant, called LOBSTgER — short ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/merging-ai-and-underwater-photography-reveal-hidden-ocean-worldsMapping 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-effects-crystal-defectsWater 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutter