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Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
by Nicholas Rolston, Stanford, and edited by MIT News. Perovskite illustration by Christine Daniloff, ... MIT. The system, developed by researchers at MIT and Stanford University over the last few years, makes ... a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, Stanford professor of materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-enlist-ai-help-scale-advanced-solar-cell-manufacturingIngestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone
hunger, nausea, and feelings of fullness. MIT engineers have now shown that they can stimulate these ... Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who is now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-%E2%80%9Celectroceutical%E2%80%9D-capsule-stimulates-hunger-regulating-hormoneHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
launch them into the air. Now MIT scientists have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into ... in agricultural runoff. MIT engineers have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into a deep ... MIT News The team carried out experiments in which they dispensed water droplets of various sizes and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolA leg up for STEM majors
engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... his work at MIT's Election Data and Science Lab. “When I started, I was just looking for a place ... at MIT's Environmental Dynamics Lab (ENDLab) developing monitoring technology for marine carbon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm that could ... MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on ... adaptation,” says Navid Azizan, who is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou, professors Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Fang, Evelyn Wang, and Sang-Gook ... device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberAlumni Spotlight: Kevin Rustagi (SB ’11)
got an organization, you can do all kinds of things.” From the time he arrived at MIT in 2007 as ... a freshman, Rustagi threw himself into project after project, from starting the MIT live music club and ... MIT was because of its renowned entrepreneurial network, the iconic culture of MIT startups. “The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kevin-rustagi-sb-%E2%80%9911Morphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... concentrated sunlight by a factor of several thousand. But the MIT researchers say that after further ... included MIT graduate students David Bierman and Walker Chan, former postdoc Youngsuk Nam, and research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-lightWeighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ... Nathan Cermak is also a lead author of the paper, and Manalis, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor ... than gold, the MIT team’s work is the first clear demonstration that the technique can work with gold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightCooling when there’s too much heat
a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... his co-authors, recent MIT PhD recipient Hyuk-Min Kwon and former MIT postdoc J.C. Bird, was to find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heat‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness
at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ... Lee, Patrick Ho, and Hermano Krebs from MIT and Mohammad Rastgaar Aagaah from Michigan Technological ... University. A robotic walking coach Hogan and Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffnessUnder the sea
the sea. Yet when ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of ... remaining a full-time MIT student. “Hopefully we’ll resurface before final exams,” she says with a smile. ... a high school junior — and was accepted at MIT. “Amazingly, MIT worked out,” Young says. Saving the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaMechE announces three new appointments
Technology and Education @ MIT (STE@M) program for students and faculty. She is also the founder and director ... of the Battelle/MIT Postdoctoral Associate Program. Hosoi’s research interests lie in developing and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-announces-three-new-appointmentsNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ... compounds for water-splitting, the MIT researchers predict that further research could lead to more-active ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisKevin Rustagi
organization, you can do all kinds of things.” From the time he arrived at MIT in 2007 as a freshman, Rustagi ... threw himself into project after project, from starting the MIT live music club and leading ... a sweat-free shirt-making business with a fellow student. But then, one of the reasons he came to MIT was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/kevin-rustagiHow the ocean reins in global warming
Climate (PAOC) within MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). “In that this ... Kyle Armour, an EAPS postdoc, and John Marshall, MIT professor of oceanography, investigated how the ... warming.” These results led the MIT group to conclude that models must better represent the AMOC and its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-ocean-reins-global-warmingBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ... The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesStudent Spotlight: Yamile Pariente
division. When coordinators at MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives), which organized ... a moment’s hesitation, took a leave of absence from MIT, and flew to Germany. “It wasn’t even a question,” ... me. I’ve gotten some pretty hilarious reactions from people when I tell them I go to MIT and I’m ...
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