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Even as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ... engineer other heat-resistant, water-absorbing materials. The group envisions such materials could one day ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureStudy: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping
Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and others ... marine scrubber is a huge, metal, vertical tank installed in a ship’s exhaust stack, above the engines ... exhaust gases as they exit the engines. The seawater interacts with sulfur dioxide in the exhaust, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-burning-heavy-fuel-oil-scrubbers-best-available-option-bulk-maritime-shippingPalladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel
around 800 kelvins, they can break down. Now, MIT engineers have developed a new palladium membrane that ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Kim and his colleagues report details of the new membrane in ... Field, director of research at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI); former MIT chemical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/palladium-filters-could-enable-cheaper-more-efficient-generation-hydrogen-fuelAn 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 ... Electrochemical Energy Lab; Gareth McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; and Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamQ&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
grow millions of times faster than plants and dozens of times faster than microalgae. Engineering these ... Sciences; Architecture and Planning; Engineering; and Science; plus the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, ... Desiree Plata, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasAdvancing the energy transition amidst global crises
(MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th Annual ... Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus, founding director of MITEI, and ... professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Howard Herzog, a senior research engineer at MITEI, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-energy-transition-amidst-global-crisesDesigning cleaner vehicles
a second-year master’s degree student in mechanical engineering, Mehrotra has channeled his energy into two ... arenas: designing clean energy vehicles and enhancing mechanical engineering education at MIT. For the ... intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering. MIT-Aditya Mehrotra-01-press_0-1.jpg: MIT graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ... connected to real groundwater, water tanks, and solar panels. Photo: Shane Pratt The engineers tested ... says Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesData-Driven Modeling of 4D Ocean and Coastal Acidification in the Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays
team, including MIT Mechanical Engineering graduate student Bianca Champenois, MIT Sea Grant research ... scientist Carolina Bastidas, Northeastern University student Beck LaBash, and MIT Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-modeling-4d-ocean-and-coastal-acidification-massachusetts-and-cape-cod-baysThe Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown
Engineering and the Ocean Environment: Challenge and Opportunity by Alissa Mallinson Vast ... unsinkable Titanic. The mysteries of the oceans’ depths and what lies beneath offer exciting challenges for engineers ... Professor of Marine Technology and Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering Professor Michael ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-and-potential-oceans-unknownHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
Engineering, who is the paper’s lead author. “They were empty, there was air inside,” he says. “No one had ... work shows the potential of both photonic engineering and materials science to advance solar energy ... harvesting,” says Paul Braun, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberPhD student recognized by International Desalination Association
engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-student-recognized-international-desalination-associationAutonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for ... Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ... International Journal of Robotics Research. Seeing a shape in the dots The engineering of such an inspection is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesHarnessing the Full Potential of the Sun
gap. Energy Science and Engineering Micro and Nanotechnology Energy Security Impact Home Research Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-full-potential-sun-0Water is Life
in-the-field research. Mechanics Design and Manufacturing Energy Science and Engineering Health Environment ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-lifeFive from MIT earn Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
and one postdoc from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) have been awarded ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. He plans to use the Simons award to ... used to investigate the microorganisms, causing Lambert and his colleagues to engineer an in situ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-earn-simons-foundation-postdoctoral-fellowships-marine-microbial-ecologyTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering, who has the expertise in ... of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock uses his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockNew polymer films conduct heat instead of trapping it
engineers have flipped the picture of the standard polymer insulator, by fabricating thin polymer films that ... Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, and a senior co-author on the paper. “Our bigger vision is, ... engineered polyethylene films have such an unusually high thermal conductivity, the team conducted X-ray ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-polymer-films-conduct-heat-instead-trapping-itScaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ... that have a lasting impact,” explains Maria Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty ... says. Monday, October 21, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstoves