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Technique 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-powerWater, water everywhere … even in the air
including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ... humidity of 100 percent, explains Wang, who is the Gail E. Kendall Professor at MIT. But such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airIn 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airMoving 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-willTransforming boating, with solar power
The MIT Sailing Pavilion hosted an altogether different marine vessel recently: a prototype of ... a solar electric boat developed by James Worden ’89, the founder of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team ... the MIT Edgerton Center, MIT Sea Grant, and the broader community an inside look at the Anita, named ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transforming-boating-solar-powerMaterials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium
Boriskina, a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing “smart” ... Engineering (DMSE); Asegun Henry, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and ... 20 held by MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory. About 200 people registered to attend the event in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials%E2%80%99-key-role-addressing-climate-change-focus-materials-day-symposiumCrumpled 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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