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The 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themMorphable surfaces could cut air resistance
of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering. “Less is known about what happens ... of how controlled processes of mechanical buckling can be used to create three-dimensional structures ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... 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-powerSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
their paper. Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, says, “We wanted to ... ultrathin layers that amplify the hopping mechanism, “We are able to achieve ultraconductive, as well as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersHydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Hyunwoo Yuk, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a paper on the work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... possess similar mechanical and physiological properties as the brain.” This research was funded, in part, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsReducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Maher Damak, research scientist Seyed Reza ... including graduate student Maher Damak (left) and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa K. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-runoff-pollution-making-spray-droplets-less-bouncyElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ... Professor in Power Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Alexei Maznev, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsTemperature difference propels droplets
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was not associated with this research. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsWhy have solar energy costs fallen?
(IDSS), along with co-principal investigators Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor in mechanical ... mechanisms driving PV system cost reductions, the MIT team will delve deeply into specific ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-have-solar-energy-costs-fallenTransparent, 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishScientists make microscopes from droplets
Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... Blankschtein, professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis, and John D. MacArthur Professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsUsing sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... Connects. Friday, July 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-sensors-and-social-networks-make-slopes-saferNew gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ... layers of hydrogel. They then put the laminate structure through a battery of mechanical tests and found ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and graduate student Maher Damak. Photo: Alexi Taylor Ko Infinite ... and Karim Khalil, all from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been fine-tuning their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competitionA new approach to ultrafast light pulses
deposited on a metal substrate. The molecules can quickly exchange energy with the metal below, a mechanism ... associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang, postdocs Qing Hu and Dafei Jin, and five ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-ultrafast-light-pulsesA new way to mend a broken heart
Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship International Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mend-broken-heartA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... management in high-performance devices.” Chang-Jin Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesNew 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-efficiency