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Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... material-engineering technique. Her MIT co-authors are Luis Marcelo Lozano, Seongdon Hong, Yi Huang, Hadi Zandavi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyExperiments reveal the physics of evaporation
of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and three others at MIT and Tokyo ... a liquid boils away from a hot surface. MIT-Evaporation-Physics-01_1024.jpg Evaporation hasn’t been studied ... in detail at a molecular level, until now. New MIT research has revealed details of the process. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationHow to speed up the discovery of new solar cell materials
Joule, in a paper by MIT research scientist Shijing Sun, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... painstaking. MIT-AI-Solar-PRESS 1024.jpg Diagram depicts the sequence of steps used in the new streamlined ... Now, a team of researchers at MIT and several other institutions has accelerated the process of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-speed-discovery-new-solar-cell-materialsRobotic palm mimics human touch
from a robot. Why? Most of them don't have palms. 1024MIT-GelPalm.png MIT CSAIL student Sandra Q. ... Liu displays her innovative GelPalm robotic design in her lab workspace. Credit: Michael Grimmett/MIT ... ongoing Herculean effort. Now, a new robotic hand design developed in MIT's Computer Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-palm-mimics-human-touchDesigning exploratory robots that collect data for marine scientists
chemical anomaly associated with the annual ice-cover retreat. MIT_VICTORIA-PRESTON_01-1024.jpg Victoria ... Preston, a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI joint program, is helping to design robots that can independently ... tools to make a difference. In 2016, Preston completed her BS in robotics engineering from Olin College ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-exploratory-robots-collect-data-marine-scientistsExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, ... expensive and more compact and lightweight, but they can lose 80 percent of their charge a month. The MIT ... — more than a thousandfold improvement. MIT-Metal-Air-Batteries-1024.jpg Researchers demonstrating the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesA new way to provide cooling without power
MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... metal suspended above the device blocks the sun’s direct rays. MIT-Radiative-Cooling_1024.jpg Two ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... like pacemakers. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to improve the energy density of these ... are reported today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ... Nature Communications. MIT-Phonon-Scattering.jpg In their experiments, the team used precisely timed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsSystem provides cooling with no electricity
engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and seven others at MIT and at the Pontifical Catholic University ... magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do exactly that. The device, ... below the ambient air temperature. MIT-Aerogel-Cooling-03-1024.jpg In field tests, the performance of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
sunlight. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines ... in solar-power installations, the researchers say. MIT-Tandem-Solar 1024-.jpg Photo by Felice Frankel ... control circuit. The new findings are reported in the journal Applied Physics Letters by MIT graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedHot New Solar Cell
MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar ... electricity. MIT-Solar-Thermal_1024.jpg While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same ... underlying theoretical limitations, MIT PhD student David Bierman says, “with solar thermal photovoltaics you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ... still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... air conditioning and energy costs could drop by 10 percent. MIT-Window-Heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heatResearchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
electronic devices. MIT-Graphene-Wafers-01-1024.jpg Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT have developed a technique to harvest 2-inch ... materials, according to Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-quickly-harvest-2-d-materials-bringing-them-closer-commercializationHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ... engineering at MIT. “All that force has to be created close to the surface, at a near standstill. That’s what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchSearch-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters
mechanical engineering at MIT. “This method uses data in a way that it hasn’t been used before, so it ... mechanical engineering at MIT, who oversaw the project, and their colleagues report their results in a study ... can confound and delay critical search-and-rescue operations. Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-and-rescue-algorithm-identifies-hidden-%E2%80%9Ctraps%E2%80%9D-ocean-waters-0Physicists 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. ... very much in motion. MIT-Kilogram-Cooling-1024.jpg MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to ... optics technicians examining one of LIGO’s mirrors. Image Courtesy of Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab In the last ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ... overlooked acoustic-gravity waves.” Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers at MIT have now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionNew technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
engineering at MIT and senior author of the paper. “One of the things that makes the process slow is the long ... MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time-consuming ... the traditional approach. MIT-Assessing-PVs_1024.jpg This experimental setup was used by the team to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cellsSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT ... by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... -Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg An MIT study shows that electrical vehicle batteries could have a useful and profitable second life ...
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