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A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ... by adding a common stimulant: caffeine. zero-emissions fuel.jpg MIT engineers Aly Kombargi (left) and ... author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineA lasting — and valuable — legacy
Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ... Engineering, grew up in a curious, independently minded family. Her mother had multiple jobs over the years, ... engineering, and worked successfully in them. When Gallant was very young, she and her father did science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ... of millions of chemical formulations. In tandem, engineers are building machines that can print ... says MIT graduate student Eunice Aissi. “The whole system would allow us to give a computer a materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materials2022-23 Takeda Fellows: Leveraging AI to positively impact human health
The MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda ... industry. Takeda fellows 22.23.jpg Top row, left to right: Camille Farruggio, Wenhao Gao, Samuel Goldman, ... the next generation of AI and system-level breakthroughs, the MIT-Takeda Program is also creating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2022-23-takeda-fellows-leveraging-ai-positively-impact-human-healthBuilding robots to expand access to cell therapies
startup came from Melocchi, who was a visiting PhD candidate in MIT’s chemical engineering department in ... move to cell therapy comes after Parietti’s small team of mostly MIT-trained roboticists and engineers ... founded by Fred Parietti PhD ’16 and former visiting PhD at MIT Alice Melocchi, is hoping to bring the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesResearchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... arrangement and electronic performance. “For graphene to play as a main semiconductor material for industry ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-%E2%80%9Ciron-out%E2%80%9D-graphene%E2%80%99s-wrinklesAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; and Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering ... solve a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle. An interdisciplinary team from MIT has found that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. Now engineers at ... MIT have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. The framework ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishRefrigerator magnets
according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ... so you can essentially use a magnet as a refrigerator,” says Bolin Liao, a graduate student in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsSteam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunWater, water everywhere … even in the air
including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ... humidity of 100 percent, explains Wang, who is the Gail E. Kendall Professor at MIT. But such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ... senior author of both papers. MIT postdoc Sameer Rao and former graduate student Hyunho Kim SM ’14, PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airSolving a mystery of thermoelectrics
researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... which could lead to the discovery of new, improved thermoelectric materials. The findings — by MIT ... graduate student Sangyeop Lee; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering; and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... China Sea, are produced. The new findings come from a team effort involving MIT and several other ... la Recherche in France, and the MIT-France Program. Tuesday, January 7, 2014 David L. Chandler, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-powerBasketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Data return Across the sports world, data analysts have grown in number and ... according to a new study by MIT researchers, there’s one member who consistently boosts their team’s ... performance: the data analyst. An MIT basketball player dribbles during a game. Credit: MIT DAPER The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
is reported in the journal Scientific Reports by MIT’s Xuanhe Zhao, the Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) ... d'Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and four other authors. The new, ... exciting and amazing to me,” says Dan Li, a professor of materials engineering at Monash University in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageRooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience
stress on the grid, MIT engineers say. An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can harness our smart dishwashers, ... of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers present a blueprint for how grid-edge devices ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceVine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ... says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Allison Okamura, the Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objects