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Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering at MIT, have laid out their ... what to sample for the most informative data, and how to optimally reach sampling locations. MIT ... engineers have now developed systems of mathematical equations that forecast the most informative data to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0A Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?
Engineering — as well as MIT principal research scientist Ivan Celanovic, postdoc Ognjen Ilic, and Purdue ... country has banned or is phasing out the inefficient technology. Now, researchers at MIT and Purdue ... Nanotechnology by three MIT professors — Marin Soljačić, professor of physics; John Joannopoulos, the Francis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanophotonic-comeback-incandescent-bulbsAlbatross robot takes flight
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ... extracted for sailboats.” An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Bousquet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ... to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
to explain them. MIT-Lithium-i-1024.jpg This series of photographs shows the chemical reaction that ... Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Now, a team at MIT has carried out detailed tests that seem to resolve the questions ... Environmental Science, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Paula Hammond, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialBatteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
joined 2.013/2.014 (Engineering System Design/Development) taught by MIT professor of mechanical ... The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout ... same applications. MIT-OpenWater-2-1024.jpg Open Water Power’s battery that "drinks" in sea ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batteries-%E2%80%9Cdrink%E2%80%9D-seawater-could-power-long-range-underwater-vehicles-0Tunneling Across a Tiny Gap
blurred,” says Vazrik Chiloyan, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering. “We’re trying to come up ... Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... gaps. Now researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University have developed a model ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunneling-across-tiny-gapMoving water and earth
these very scary degrees of freedom,” says Kamrin, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Shape ... sediment over time. Knowing how quickly or slowly this sediment flows can help engineers plan for the ... flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthSimple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ... efficient, low-cost water source. MIT-Portable-Desalination-1024.jpg Tests on an MIT building rooftop showed ... appearing today in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, authored by MIT doctoral students Lenan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ... a limpet’s shell can flash brilliantly even in murky water. MIT-Shell-Design-02.jpg Scientists at MIT and ... its blue-striped appearance./ Courtesy of the researchers Now scientists at MIT and Harvard University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeHidden ocean waves
time, ocean engineers and scientists from MIT, the University of Minnesota at Duluth (UMD), and the ... MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ... science and engineering at MIT; Tim Duda, a senior scientist at WHOI; and Patrick Haley, a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hidden-ocean-wavesSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
MIT-Polymer-1.jpg A scanning transmission electron micrograph (STEM) of the polymer material shows its division into ... Photo by: Asli Ugur Now researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have explained how ... the difficulty in explaining how they work, says Asli Ugur, an MIT postdoc and lead author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsPassive cooling system could benefit off-grid locations
or no reliable electric power. Now, an innovative system developed at MIT offers a way to use passive ... Reports Physical Science, in a paper by MIT postdoc Zhengmao Lu, Arny Leroy PhD ’21, professors Jeffrey ... supported by MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab. MIT-EfficientCooling-01-press_0.jpg Two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/passive-cooling-system-could-benefit-grid-locationsHow to assess new solar technologies
by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ... question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesTechnique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
laboratory conditions. Now MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic technique that can quickly process ... do,” says Qianru Wang, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “There is recent work ... adds Cullen Buie, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Thus, a tool that allows you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-identifies-electricity-producing-bacteriaStudy: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions
of these observed catalytic activities is not well-understood. Now, a team at MIT has shown that in ... are being reported this week in the journal Nature Chemistry, in a paper by recent MIT graduate ... others. MIT-Catalyzing-Oxygen-1.jpg New research shows that when metal oxide (flat array of atoms at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-some-catalysts-contribute-their-own-oxygen-reactionsSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... experiments — including one in which they simply placed the solar sponge on the roof of MIT’s Building 3 — the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightSolar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... expense. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt ... accumulation,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ... a time,” says Sai Nithin Kantareddy, a PhD student in the MIT Auto-ID Laboratory. “This work is basically ...
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