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Advanced silicon solar cells
Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and lab director. ... Mechanical Engineering have identified defects that may be causing a promising type of high-efficiency ... Ashley Morishige, postdoc in mechanical engineering. That behavior is perplexing because manufacturers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsRemoving carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust
assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and her group at MIT have therefore been focusing on ... 2 to a stable, solid form.” A process of discovery In 2016, Gallant and mechanical engineering ... “We’re mechanical engineers, so what we’re really keen on doing is developing an industrial process where ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/removing-carbon-dioxide-power-plant-exhaustMaking a remarkable material even better
Mechanical Engineering, and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering, set out to ... says Lin Zhao PhD ’19 of mechanical engineering. “So in our work, we’ve been trying to understand ... in parallel, graduate student Elise Strobach of mechanical engineering had been learning how best to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-remarkable-material-even-betterUsing aluminum and water to make clean hydrogen fuel — when and where it’s needed
mechanical engineering at MIT. “Using aluminum as our source, we can ‘store’ hydrogen at a density that’s 10 ... reaction,” says Laureen Meroueh PhD ’20, who earned her doctorate in mechanical engineering. IMG_7714 ... Thomas W. Eagar, a professor of materials engineering and engineering management in the MIT Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-aluminum-and-water-make-clean-hydrogen-fuel-%E2%80%94-when-and-where-it%E2%80%99s-neededUsing combustion to make better batteries
internal combustion engine for powering vehicles. As the energy transition progresses, researchers ... combustion. Now an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Class of 1954 ... task for Deng and her team — mechanical engineering postdoc Jianan Zhang, Valerie L. Muldoon ’20, SM ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteriesProducts of Progress
engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ... That’s when Wu engineered a solution. “We were building this pedal-powered machine, when really all we ... students in engineering and in the MIT Sloan School of Management, lawyers, and accountants — also showed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/products-progressCooling buildings worldwide
and Mechanical Engineering. Lienhard is Norford’s colleague at the Center for Environmental Sensing ... mechanical engineering graduate students: Tianyi Chen, who was working with Norford on the impacts of outdoor ... Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (’72) Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Paired up for a class project, they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-buildings-worldwide“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... heat engine and get the cost down.” However, if operators were to heat the salt much beyond current ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Csun-box%E2%80%9D-would-store-renewable-energy-gridLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
Engineering; MIT Kavli Institute; the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology; the MIT Computer Science and ... Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL); the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ... Mechanical Engineering and AeroAstro, respectively), offers future astronauts a rotating plant habitat that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityVapor-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-airAddressing 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/addressing-food-insecurity-arid-regions-open-source-evaporative-cooling-chamber-designHow 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-need-heatSurface-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-based-sonar-system-could-rapidly-map-ocean-floor-high-resolutionStudy 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesSun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge
engineers and people.” Qualifying continued with the FSGP, a three-day track race held at the Motorsport ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-car-shines-american-solar-challengeMIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards
Co-founders Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and postdocs Maher Damak PhD ’18 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinoff-takes-top-honor-masschallenge-awardsHow 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-achieve-clean-energy-futureModerating 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moderating-extremes-building-designWhales 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindA 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-mechanism-catalyzing-splitting-water