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Accelerating particle size distribution estimation
are typically used: a sample is either imaged and individual particles are counted, or researchers use ... increased waste, making the latter a more attractive option. In recent years, MIT engineers and researchers ... researcher at Tsinghua University. “By making progress in analyzing scattered light, we also invented ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-particle-size-distribution-estimationBurning things to make things
of mechanical engineering, is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion ... research in battery deactivation and energy system analysis with Associate Professor Sili Deng. Credit: ... Utilization and associate professor of mechanical engineering, is leading research to drive the transition from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/burning-things-make-thingsMicrochip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
retaining precision. The paper’s senior author, MIT professor Scott Manalis, and other researchers have been ... developing SMRs for nearly a decade. In the new study, the researchers used the device to observe the ... of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. The paper’s lead authors are Nathan Cermak, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-enables-fast-precise-measurement-single-cell-growthStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
MIT-Transpararent-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its ... researchers fabricated flexible films made from gallium arsenide, gallium nitride, and lithium fluoride ... produce in functional devices. The new technique, researchers say, provides a cost-effective method to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materialsFrom microfluidics to metastasis
A mouse, on the other hand, only has about 1.5 milliliters of blood in total. If researchers want to study ... researchers at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, it is now possible to collect CTCs from ... consists of engineers, the opportunity to participate in this type of research has been incredibly exciting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-metastasisStudents present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact
summarizing research are tacked onto endless rows of bulletin boards. Leaders in any given field meander ... through the posters, asking presenters questions about their work on the spot. For junior researchers ... Visiting doctoral student Matteo Alberghini, right, presents his research to an attendee at the 2019 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-mechanical-engineering-projects-have-global-impactIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
a light-sensitive hydrogel that the researchers designed. Incorporating this material into medical devices could ... they are no longer needed or are not functioning properly, the researchers say. “We are developing ... helping them to break down in the body. Image: Ritu Raman In a study in pigs, the researchers showed that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightEngineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics
covered in an intermediate layer of graphene. Once the researchers grow a semiconducting film, they can ... journal Nature, the researchers demonstrate that they can use remote epitaxy to produce freestanding films ... materials, to produce flexible, multifunctional electronic devices. The researchers expect that the process ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-mix-and-match-materials-make-new-stretchy-electronicsNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
pig intestinal tissue grown in the lab, the researchers can test thousands of different versions of ... a drug in just hours. In a paper appearing today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers used ... Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, are the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentA robot that finds lost items
figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... the researchers developed relies on RFID tags, which are cheap, battery-less tags that can be stuck to ... Signal Kinetics group in the MIT Media Lab. Co-authors include research assistant Tara Boroushaki, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
dessicant. The researchers found they could infuse the hydrogel with more salt than was possible in previous ... continuously absorb vapor, that could then be condensed into drinking water. The researchers also envision that ... Research Lab at MIT. “But now we are exploring widely different problems like how to make air conditioning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airA. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care
An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... health-care robotics has been shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the ... Yale, West was selected to participate in the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP). The program identifies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/michael-west-advancing-human-robot-interactions-health-careHow to Hide Like an Octopus
Researchers create materials that reproduce cephalopods’ ability to quickly change colors and ... materials. Now a team of researchers has come closer than ever to achieving that goal, creating a flexible ... control. Octopus-235519 1024.jpg The results of their research have been published in the journal Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-hide-octopusNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... researchers fabricated an array of the microhairs onto an elastic, transparent layer of silicone. microscopic ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairLiving sensors at your fingertips
up in the presence of certain chemicals. MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Researchers have found that the ... courtesy of the researchers In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ... Sciences, the researchers demonstrate the new material’s potential for sensing chemicals, both in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-sensors-your-fingertipsKirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale
Nanokirigami has taken off as a field of research in the last few years; the approach is based on ... Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ... nanodevices to manipulate light, potentially opening up new possibilities for research and, ultimately, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-nanoscaleWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
Human skeletal muscles have a unique combination of properties that materials researchers seek for ... researchers has found one way to give synthetic hydrogels this total package of characteristics: putting them ... polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels trained in the experiment are well-known biomaterials that researchers use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleNew capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected
the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. In tests in pigs, the researchers showed that this ... researchers set out to develop a capsule that could inject its contents into the wall of the small intestine. ... intestine and perform these micro-injections, the researchers coated it with a polymer that can survive the ...
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