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Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... accumulation,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. Li says that the advantages of this system are “both the high performance and the reliable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationPassive cooling system could benefit off-grid locations
a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, who was not associated with this research. Ruan ... of Mechanical Engineering and Jatin Patil of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering ... system developed by a team of engineers including Evelyn Wang offers a way to use passive cooling to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/passive-cooling-system-could-benefit-grid-locationsNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi (left) is a co-author on the paper outlining the new ... of millions of chemical formulations. In tandem, engineers are building machines that can print ... pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materialsHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and a core member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ... in agricultural runoff. MIT engineers have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into a deep ... 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-poolA simple formula could guide the design of faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries
mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, and chemistry. Shao-Horn and Bazant are the senior ... mechanism of this reaction, or the factors that control its rate. ... Chemical Engineering and a professor of mathematics at MIT. The new model may also help scientists ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-formula-could-guide-design-faster-charging-longer-lasting-batteriesJ-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a solution. He and his team have been awarded ... Mechanical Engineering “ Manufacturing and Marketing E. coli Test Kits to Promote Safely Managed Drinking ... a 2015 J-WAFS Solutions grant which has since been supported by The Engine, has received numerous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-2018-solutions-grants-commercialization-mit-food-and-water-technologiesPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
buildings and homes. Joining Kantareddy on the papers are: Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) ... Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Combining two low-cost technologies In recent attempts to ... postdoc Ian Matthews, researcher Shijing Sun, chemical engineering student Mariya Layurova, researcher ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DSystem provides cooling with no electricity
E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. But this is a different issue that has received much ... a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ... engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and seven others at MIT and at the Pontifical Catholic University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityTwo projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions
the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-principal investigator Paul Barton, the Lammot du ... Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, aims to produce hydrogen without CO 2 emissions while creating ... study to gain a holistic understanding of the coupled chemo-mechanical processes that accompany CO ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-projects-receive-funding-technologies-avoid-carbon-emissionsSolar-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 ... represents a powerful engineering approach for designing a dual-stage AWH device to achieve higher water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-extracts-drinkable-water-%E2%80%9Cdry%E2%80%9D-airSurface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize
MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... ’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-coating-designed-improve-power-plant-efficiency-wins-2022-water-innovation-prizeSensing the world around us
principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, spoke about his work on robotic ... in Media Arts & Sciences and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ... positioning transforms the world,” he said. At the intersection of electrical engineering, communications, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usWhales Dine with Their Own Kind
Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with their students, are co-authors of ... PhD ’02, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. “Maybe ... on their different foraging mechanisms. That’s material for new research.” Ratilal and her husband, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindSimple, solar-powered water desalination
Zhang and Lin Zhao, postdoc Zhenyuan Xu, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationBoosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems
now an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, along with MIT professors of mechanical ... engineering Kripa Varanasi and Yang Shao-Horn, and recent graduate Jonathan Hwang PhD ’19. “Carbon dioxide ... electrolyzer,” says Ifan Stephens, a professor of materials engineering at Imperial College London, who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/boosting-efficiency-carbon-capture-and-conversion-systemsPhysicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
says Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who directed the project. ... of mechanical engineering Vivishek Sudhir. Precision pushback All objects embody some sort of motion ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... level experimentally is the team’s next goal. Sevilla, a doctoral student in the mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatMIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea ... MIT Sea Grant director Michael Triantafyllou and professor of mechanical engineering Themistoklis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-sea-grant-students-explore-intersection-technology-and-offshore-aquaculture-norway-0Separating finely mixed oil and water
mechanical support. The approach can be adapted to industrial processes used today for making large membranes ... a weaker filter. “There is no separate layer, it’s completely integrated, so the mechanical support is ... cloudy appearance. Anish Tuteja, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-finely-mixed-oil-and-water