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Photovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ... Photovoltaics Research Laboratory researchers describe using the sensors to continuously monitor indoor and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DTransatlantic connections make the difference for MIT Portugal
between MIT, Portuguese universities and research institutions, and the Portuguese government, is a case ... e Tecnologia, or FCT). Since then, the program has developed research platforms in areas such as bioengineering, ... MPP, noting, in particular, MPP’s achievements in the areas of energy and ocean research, as well as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transatlantic-connections-make-difference-mit-portugalHow AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies
Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles ... a machine-learning model to analyze thousands of existing delivery particles, the researchers used it to predict new ... materials that would work even better. The model also enabled the researchers to identify particles that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-ai-could-speed-development-rna-vaccines-and-other-rna-therapiesThree MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows
Physics, and the director of the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. In her academic work, ... she applies the techniques of radio astronomy, interferometry, and image processing to basic research ... Initiative’s Low-Carbon Energy Center for Energy Bioscience Research. Her research focuses on designing new ways to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-faculty-elected-2018-aaas-fellowsMIT launches Center for Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems
research is intended to provide a fundamental understanding that enables a quantitative approach bridging ... research is still rapidly expanding. The Center for M-CELS will focus on government- and industry-funded ... research related to microphysiological systems and disease modeling, tissue regeneration, non-medical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-launches-center-multi-cellular-engineered-living-systemsCSAIL, MechE marine experts win international self-driving boat competition
(CSAIL) researchers took home the grand prize in an international competition centered on autonomous ... researchers from MIT and Olin College as one of 15 teams competing in the Maritime RobotX Challenge, which ... took place Oct. 20-26 in Marina Bay, Singapore. Each research group spent the past year developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/csail-meche-marine-experts-win-international-self-driving-boat-competitionTwelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships
Grants will support their research, graduate study, and teaching abroad in 2021-22. Twelve MIT ... Taiwan, where they will conduct research, earn a graduate degree, or teach English. Sponsored by the U.S. ... Artificial Intelligence group at the University of São Paulo to research graffiti, street art, and the design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/twelve-mit-awarded-2021-fulbright-fellowshipsAsegun Henry wins National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award
highest honor for early-career researchers and provides funding for research in any science or engineering ... field. This is the second year NSF has chosen to honor three researchers with the award. Henry is the ... million over five years for research in their chosen field of science. Alan T Waterman Award 2023 (1).png ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-wins-national-science-foundation%E2%80%99s-alan-t-waterman-awardThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
New research provides a general formula for understanding how layered materials form different ... a fundamental level by researchers at MIT. The underlying process is the same in all of these cases: Layers of ... understanding the factors that produce these patterns, the researchers say, it should become easier to design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingQuantum Physics Meets Genetic Engineering
Researchers use engineered viruses to provide quantum-based enhancement of energy transport. ... Surprisingly, the MIT researchers achieved this new approach to solar energy not with high-tech materials or ... efficiently. Photo courtesy of the researchers and Lauren Aleza Kaye This achievement in coupling quantum ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-physics-meets-genetic-engineeringHow to assess new solar technologies
question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ... research scientist I. Marius Peters, and three others at MIT and at First Solar and Siva Power, solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
engineering, and Vijay Raj Singh, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Squeezing ... when they metastasize. In the new work, the MIT and University of Maryland researchers set out to test ... researchers created a 3D tissue model of the lining of a blood vessel. The model contains a layer of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsMicroscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly
To create high-resolution, 3D images of tissues such as the brain, researchers often use ... requires scanning individual pixels one at a time. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has now ... neurons within the brain, the researchers say. MIT-Fast-Brain-Imaging-01-1024.jpg This image shows ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscopy-technique-makes-finer-images-deeper-tissue-more-quicklyWhat drives ecosystems to instability?
communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ... researchers were able to define three states of ecological communities, and calculated the conditions ... necessary for them to move from one state to another. These findings allowed the researchers to create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-drives-ecosystems-instabilityThree MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023
University Research Initiative (MURI) awards for 2023. This year, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... MIT Director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and CSAIL Senior Research Scientist Aude Oliva — will be ... collaborating with other MIT researchers. The 2023 MURI awards total $220 million and will fund 31 research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-led-projects-awarded-muri-funding-2023Soft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body
peripheral nerves, and could help researchers in identifying the origins and treatments for nerve-related ... pain. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers “Current devices used to study nerve disorders are made of ... potentially cause tissue damage. Crystals and light The researchers looked to develop an alternative that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-optical-fibers-block-pain-while-moving-and-stretching-bodyCreating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way
verifying Lyapunov conditions didn’t scale well to complex machines. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ... outperform previous algorithms, the researchers found a frugal shortcut to the training and verification ... on the project alongside Toyota Research Institute researcher Hongkai Dai SM ’12, PhD ’16. “Our work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-and-verifying-stable-ai-controlled-systems-rigorous-and-flexible-wayNew Solar Absorber Could Improve Efficiency of Solar Thermal Technology
researchers at MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has discovered a low-cost way to ... affordable. “Our research team has developed a simple and cost-effective fabrication technique to create solar ... Emirates. Zhang co-authored the paper that describes this research, which was published this month in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-solar-absorber-could-improve-efficiency-solar-thermal-technologyEvelyn Wang named head of Department of Mechanical Engineering
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor and director of MIT’s Device Research ... Evelyn_08_1024.jpg “Professor Wang’s accomplishments as a researcher and as an educator have been remarkable,” says ... recognized leader in phase change heat transfer on nanostructure surfaces, Wang’s research focuses on ...
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