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A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine ... N. Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This is an ... percent efficiency — a performance better than that of traditional steam turbines. The heat engine is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-heat-engine-no-moving-parts-efficient-steam-turbineEngineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves
predict. Now, MIT engineers have found a new way to model how waves break. The team used machine learning ... learning along with data from wave tank experiments, MIT engineers led by Professor Themis Sapsis and Dr. ... predict wave behavior. Engineers typically rely on such equations to help them design resilient offshore ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-use-artificial-intelligence-capture-complexity-breaking-wavesMIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
MIT-Ultrasound-sticker-1024.jpg MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The ... available only in hospitals and doctor’s offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the ... environmental engineering at MIT. “We believe we’ve opened a new era of wearable imaging: With a few patches on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-stickers-can-see-inside-bodyMIT engineers design a robotic replica of the heart’s right chamber
MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle, which mimics the ... mechanical ventilation,” says Manisha Singh, a postdoc at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ... member of IMES and the associate head for research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-robotic-replica-heart%E2%80%99s-right-chamberMIT engineers develop a soft, printable, metal-free electrode
inflammation that in turn can degrade an implant’s performance. Now, MIT engineers have developed a metal-free, ... biological tissue. MIT_Hydro-Electrode-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers developed a metal-free, Jell-O-like ... environmental engineering at MIT. Zhao, Yuk, and others at MIT and elsewhere report their results today in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-soft-printable-metal-free-electrodeMIT engineers find a way to protect microbes from extreme conditions
Institute for Space Health, Space Center Houston, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and by 711 ... storage. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to make microbes hardy enough to withstand these ... applications, or agricultural uses,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-find-way-protect-microbes-extreme-conditionsMIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips
functions than today’s electronics. MIT-Direct-Stack-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a method to ... communication between functional semiconducting layers. Now, MIT engineers have found a way around this hurdle, ... engineering at MIT. “This could lead to orders-of-magnitude improvements in computing power for applications ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-grow-%E2%80%9Chigh-rise%E2%80%9D-3d-chipsPeer coaching helps graduate students thrive
spring of 2020, she got an email about the launch of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Coaching Program ... ’05, who also works as a research engineer at MIT. Hendrickson draws a distinction between coaching and ... product. MIT-Grad-Coach-02-press.jpg Graduate Student Coaching Program instructor Y. Jenny Wang SM ’15, PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peer-coaching-helps-graduate-students-thriveMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
experimental data,” says Bazant, the E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering and a professor of ... addition to these lithium battery projects, Yuriy Román, associate professor of chemical engineering, will ... Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityEngineering art
MIT-Stephanie-chou-kinetic-sculpture-Mess-of-Gold 1024_0.jpg Stephanie Chou ’19 stands with her kinetic art sculpture, "Mess of Gold." ... sculpture to encourage members of the MIT community to express themselves and find support in challenging ... Hunter, an MIT student, passed away after a brief illness in 2017. Dealing with her friend’s passing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-artA more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
engineering at MIT and a member of IDSS; and others at Harvard and MIT. Active learning When scientists try to ... Sunday, October 1, 2023 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Professor Themis Sapsis and a team of engineers ... A strategy for cellular reprogramming involves using targeted genetic interventions to engineer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-effective-experimental-design-engineering-cell-new-stateTo excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
generating new content that resembles everything they’ve seen before. But as MIT engineers say in a new ... a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT. “The objective of these models is to mimic a dataset. But as ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “But in design, being different could be important if you want to innovate.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excel-engineering-design-generative-ai-must-learn-innovate-study-findsEngineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
MIT-Tree-on-Chip.jpg Engineers have designed a microfluidic device they call a “tree-on-a-chip,” which mimics the ... pumping mechanism of trees and other plants. Now engineers at MIT and their collaborators have designed ... head for operations in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the chip’s passive pumping may ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-%E2%80%9Ctree-chip%E2%80%9DEngineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity
MIT-Obesity-Treatment-01-PRESS_0.gif MIT engineers have now come up with a new way to take advantage of that phenomenon, using an ... mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the senior author ... Health, Novo Nordisk, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, a Schmidt Science Fellowship, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-might-help-treat-obesityEngineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs
a “screen door effect” such that users perceive stripes in the space between pixels. Now, MIT engineers have ... create vertical, multicolored pixels. MIT_Vertical-LEDs-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a new ... reported in the journals,” says Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We show ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-invent-vertical-full-color-microscopic-ledsEngineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... environment. Unlike some of the gels now used to grow tissue, the new MIT gel is completely synthetic, easy to ... assemble and can be produced with a consistent composition every time. MIT-Pancreatic-Tumor-1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and a principal investigator in ... MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Microsystems Technology Laboratories. His co-authors are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwareEngineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ... or dyes. MIT-Structural-Color-02-1024.jpg Seen from above, transparent droplets in a Petri dish, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-make-clear-droplets-produce-iridescent-colorsHow to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion
combatting climate change, but systems for removing carbon dioxide suffer from a tradeoff. Chemical compounds ... make the other part worse. Now, using nanoscale filtering membranes, researchers at MIT have added ... percent, they say. The new findings are reported today in the journal ACS Energy Letters, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-solve-bottleneck-co2-capture-and-conversionNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
one developed by members of this MIT team, that used the same chemical compounds as conventional ... operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... years ago. The basic technology can use a variety of chemical formulations, including the same chemical ...
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