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Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air

The technology was originally envisioned by professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi to ... Jacopo Buongiorno in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering immediately spotted a good ... further testing of the system with the help of NRL engineer Ed Block. With its 24/7 operation and its ...

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Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

Engineer Eric Verploegen of  MIT D-Lab  have  released their open-source design  for a forced-air ... Glicksman, a professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, drew on his previous research in ... mechanical engineering Dan Frey contributed to the market research phase of the project and the initial ...

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How light can vaporize water without the need for heat

Professor of Power Engineering Gang Chen, postdocs Guangxin Lv and Yaodong Tu, and graduate student James ... says Xiulin Ruan, professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, who was not involved in the ... professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not associated with this work. He adds, “Who ...

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Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution

Laboratory and the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering 's Ocean Science and Engineering lab is ... MechE’s Ocean Science and Engineering lab is developing a surface-based sonar system that could accelerate ...

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Study Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies

innovation;  Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering;  Robert Jaffe, the Jane and Otto ... Morningstar Professor of Physics; and graduate students Joel Jean of the Department of Electrical Engineering ... the 10 to 20 percent range. However, because complex nanomaterials can be engineered for maximum light ...

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Sun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge

engineers and people.” Qualifying continued with the FSGP, a three-day track race held at the Motorsport ...

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MIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards

Co-founders Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and postdocs Maher Damak PhD ’18 ...

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How artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future

Annaswamy, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of MIT’s ... experts to come together.” She notes that electrical engineers, computer scientists, and energy economists ... Professor of Power Engineering. He notes two main directions. First, AI makes possible faster physics-based ...

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Moderating Extremes in Building Design

mechanical engineering says that both will be needed in the retrofitting of existing buildings and the ... professor of materials science and engineering Lorna Gibson, Glicksman has developed a fire-resistant ...

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Whales Dine with Their Own Kind

PhD ’02, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. “Maybe ... Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with their students, are co-authors of ...

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A New Mechanism for Catalyzing the Splitting of Water

nature of the electronic structure in cobalt and oxygen,” MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Xi ... structure of ideal perovskites: This work clearly shows the importance of defect engineering for enhancing ...

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Tapping the hidden value of farm waste, while reducing harmful burn off

the poverty line? Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ... MIT, and Kevin Kung, a PhD student in biological engineering and fellow in the  MIT Tata Center for ...

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New battery gobbles up carbon dioxide

of mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, doctoral student Aliza Khurram, and postdoc Mingfu He. ... Mechanical Engineering provided support for the project. Thursday, September 20, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT ...

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Oceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals

professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, and Olav Rune Godø of ...

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Extending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries

Energy Yang Shao-Horn, and professor of mechanical engineering Douglas P. Hart. While several other ... a professor of engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who was not involved in this research. ...

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A new way to provide cooling without power

professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, professor of physics Marin Soljačić, ... been based on complex engineered photonic devices that can be expensive to make and not readily ...

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Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ...

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Simple, solar-powered water desalination

Zhang and Lin Zhao, postdoc Zhenyuan Xu, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in this ...

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Search-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 ...

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Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

engineering Kripa Varanasi and Yang Shao-Horn, and recent graduate Jonathan Hwang PhD ’19. “Carbon dioxide ... electrolyzer,” says Ifan Stephens, a professor of materials engineering at Imperial College London, who was not ...

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