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Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... a postdoc in RLE; Yirui Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and five ... materials science and engineering, and a member of the Research Lab of Electronics (RLE); Tao Wang, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsMapping 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 ... in the journal Nano Letters, in a paper co-authored by postdoc Mingda Li, Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-effects-crystal-defectsMIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering, and then-graduate student Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 ... professor of mechanical engineering, and then-graduate student Divya Panchanathan SM '15, PhD '18. ... Henry Keenan, professor and one-time department head of mechanical engineering at MIT. To join Keenan as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-research-seawater-surface-tension-becomes-international-guidelineNew fund makes MIT a living sustainability lab
The four project teams are lead by Kripa Varanasi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Randy ... Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Materials ... Water recapture at MIT’s power plant Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Kripa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-fund-makes-mit-living-sustainability-labTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering, who has the expertise in ... of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock uses his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... engineer more agile underwater vehicles. “Can we understand nature to help us design mechanical systems? ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ... Julia R. Greer, a professor of materials science, mechanics, and medical engineering at Caltech, whose ... A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang. Robot recipe For the past five years, Zhao’s group has ... Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO ... Professor of Materials Science and Engineering W. Craig Carter, as well as postdoc Xinwei Chen, graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
extreme events occur,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering ... systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... 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-eventsTalking 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 in particular is working on almost every one of these issues. How does your research fit in? My ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
says Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang ... climate change,” says Jonathan Bessette, MIT PhD student in mechanical engineering. “This technology could ... MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesNew 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencyCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
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 ... exciting and amazing to me,” says Dan Li, a professor of materials engineering at Monash University in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... material-engineering technique. Her MIT co-authors are Luis Marcelo Lozano, Seongdon Hong, Yi Huang, Hadi Zandavi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyExperiments reveal the physics of evaporation
of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and three others at MIT and Tokyo ... understanding of the dynamics at play, but in many cases engineers rely on approximations or empirical ... Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), who was not involved in this work. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
thermal regulation,” says Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureTurning heat into electricity
Physics; and Gang Chen, the Soderberg Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... that will harvest heat — produced as a byproduct of industrial processes and combustion engines — and ... conventional semiconductors like silicon,” says Te-Huan Liu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering. “The electrolyte also enables ... nuclear science and engineering and materials science and engineering. Because the electrode material ... essential mechanism by which batteries get charged and discharged — while blocking the other cations, known ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteriesProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
projects is one by Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering Evelyn Wang and chemistry professor ... Professor Antoine Allanore of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Another project, led by ... Karthish Manthiram, the Warren K. Lewis Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, seeks to develop an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-make-inroads-global-food-and-water-challenges