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New 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ... mechanism that feeds polymer material through a nozzle at high force; and a laser, built into the printhead, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... pharmaceuticals, he says. The use of mechanical scrapers to propel drug materials through mixing tanks and pipes ... spaced pillars or walls on the surface, or mechanically grinding grooves or pits. The resulting texture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideSynthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength
Radovitzky; professor of chemistry Keith Nelson; mechanical engineering professor Xuanhe Zhao; and former ... Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who characterized the mechanical properties ... surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor, as MIT engineers reported in 2019, is made from the toughest known ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthDevice that recycles vaporized water from power plants wins MIT $100K
Damak PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate and co-founder of Infinite Cooling, said in the ... requirements,” said co-founder and co-inventor Karim Khalil PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate. During ... professor of mechanical engineering and serial entrepreneur, told MIT News after the competition. Many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/device-recycles-vaporized-water-power-plants-wins-mit-100kHow strong is your knot?
experienced the greatest stress or pressure. Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, was ... mathematicians and engineers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how stable a knot is, based on ... their results today in the journal Science. Pressure’s color In 2018, Kolle’s group engineered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotHistoric Inspirations
passion for design and engineering to one specific MechE course – a course that has also inspired ... generations before them. “Classes like 2.007 are how engineers are forged,” says Weizer, who took 2.007 ... watching the finals was probably one of the most impressive displays of hard work and engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/historic-inspirationsA graphene roll-out
route to ultrathin membranes,” says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ... who is now a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightThe environmental toll of disposable masks
professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior ... Program, the National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ... MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Adam Wentworth, a research engineer at Brigham and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masksMIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing
Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ... MacArthur Professor of Chemistry, and Alexander Klibanov, the Novartis Professor of Biological Engineering ... marrying this scientific discovery to an engineered product that meets a genuine need and that consumers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testingOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ... store, buy cornstarch, then turn on your faucet,” says Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictableVelcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination
MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, ... Civil and Environmental Engineering. “People also waste a lot of food after outbreaks, because they’re ... completely edible, nontoxic, and can be used as a food ingredient, and it’s mechanically robust enough to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/velcro-food-sensor-detects-spoilage-and-contaminationWomen’s Technology Program 2021: The sweet sound of success
projects at home. Of course, to nascent engineers, fun looks a little different. “One of my favorite ... demonstrating their newly acquired knowledge of a broad range of topics in mechanical engineering. The WTP-EECS ... now in its 19th year, brings high school students with little-to-no engineering and computer science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/women%E2%80%99s-technology-program-2021-sweet-sound-successFour MIT faculty members receive U.S. Department of Energy early career awards
assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Each year, the DoE selects researchers for significant ... Science (LNS); Karthish Manthiram, assistant professor of chemical engineering; Phiala Shanahan, assistant ... Engineering, is working to synthesize these chemicals and materials in a sustainable manner that eliminates the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-faculty-members-receive-us-department-energy-early-career-awardsWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ... through a vigorous workout. MIT-Hydrogel-Muscles-1024.jpg A mechanically trained artificial muscle resists ... damage (crack) propagation using aligned nanofibrils, a similar fatigue-resistant mechanism as in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleA light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... Esther and Harold E. Edergton Career Development Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Buie and his colleagues identified a mechanism by which rain produces aerosols: As a falling droplet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-findsNew method for propulsion in fluids
journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... propel objects. In the natural world, the mechanism may influence the motion of icebergs floating on the ... such follow-up experiments, to figure out “whether the effect can be exploited, in an engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsFaculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley
Cohen, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley. Fog-harvesting systems generally consist of ... Shreerang Chhatre (PhD ’13), graduate student Siddarth Srinivasan, chemical engineering professor Robert ... mechanics associated with the fog droplets as they collect, grow and coalesce on the meshes. Large mesh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-gareth-mckinleyThe Power of Salt
according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, says reducing the size of the membrane needed to generate power would, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-salt“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... material, such as electric fields or differences in temperature. Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical ... engineering at Northwestern University who was not involved in this work, says this research “introduces a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-them