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Advancing the energy transition amidst global crises
a problem to where it’s safer. Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, described ... Kearney SM '11, PhD '19, SM '19 is a partner at The Engine, a venture firm built by MIT ... mitigation is drastically short of what it needs to be,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-energy-transition-amidst-global-crisesMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, heads up their autonomy effort; Russ ... Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
researchers at MIT says they have found a way to do just that. It has been known for years that making ... overcome that problem, the MIT researchers say. The findings are reported this week in the journal Advanced ... Materials by MIT professors Karen Gleason and Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Adam Paxson and postdoc Jose ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-lastFaculty Research: Professor Tonio Buonassisi
Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... Chandler, MIT News Office Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are ... limitations. Now, a new system developed by researchers at five institutions, including MIT, could eliminate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-tonio-buonassisiExploring new frontiers in mineral extraction
mechanical engineering at MIT, and his team in the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab), are at the ... resources,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, in a video discussing his ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-new-frontiers-mineral-extractionRefrigerator magnets
’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can envision wireless cooling where you apply a magnetic field to ... Mechanical Engineering head Gang Chen, have published a paper detailing the magnon cooling theory in Physical ... motivate new experiments.” Li Shi, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
in agricultural runoff. MIT engineers have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into a deep ... Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and a core member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ... Mechanics. MIT co-authors include former graduate student Raj Dandekar PhD ’22, postdoc (Eric) Naijian Shen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolSolar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, who was not associated with this work. “It ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-extracts-drinkable-water-%E2%80%9Cdry%E2%80%9D-airNavigating blindfolded
Leonard, a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and a member of the MIT Computer Science and ... Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ... four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-blindfoldedMISTI pilots conversations in energy
picture of where I want to fit into this.” Titan Hartono, a PhD student in mechanical engineering ... While fall typically sees MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) programs ... gearing up to facilitate international summer internship and research experiences for MIT students, this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/misti-pilots-conversations-energyNew theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet
researchers at MIT have found a way to track the thickness of a droplet’s rim as it splashes up from a variety ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... Transmission Laboratory at MIT, says the group’s results can be used to model the physics of sprays, such as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-describes-intricacies-splashing-dropletUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... professor of mechanical engineering and of ocean science and engineering, and Glenn Flierl, professor of ... study of such plumes. He was joined by Alford and Eric Adams, senior research engineer at MIT, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and five others. Preston explains that the new system could ... mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not involved in ... friction. A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could offer a new way of making movable parts with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-dropletsHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou, professors Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Fang, Evelyn Wang, and Sang-Gook ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ... is such a ubiquitous chemical that “every lab at MIT has some,” he says, so finding markets for it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resourceMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and 11 others. Silicon, which forms the basis of most ... institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Materials. The paper’s co-authors are Evelyn Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairSteam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ... A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ... hydrogen fuel; and Douglas Hart, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. Shields up The MIT team, led by ... A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ... MIT co-authors include graduate student Fang Sheng, postdoc Basita Das, and professor of mechanical ... professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi (left) is a co-author on the paper outlining the new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materials