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Power Efficiency in the Violin
another, as well as measurements of acoustic resonances across instruments. The researchers found that ... — a design that the researchers found to be more power-efficient than the rounder sound holes of the violin’s ... back plate, they found, would boost a violin’s sound. A1-MIT-Violin-Design.jpg The researchers found ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
researchers have come up with one of the simplest and lowest-cost systems yet for developing such “muscles,” ... muscle. The bottom filament is a raw circular filament. Researchers press the filament using a rolling ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesNew scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ... Carrington Motley, graduate student Qiong Zhang, undergraduate student Stephen Townsend, former research ... scientist Carmine Senatore, and principal research scientist Karl Iagnemma. Giving backbone to scaling ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-scaling-law-predicts-how-wheels-drive-over-sandA graphene roll-out
Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT “For several years, researchers have thought of graphene as a potential ... Growing graphene For many researchers, graphene is ideal for use in filtration membranes. A single sheet ... Researchers, including Karnik’s group, have developed techniques to fabricate graphene membranes and precisely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outNew theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet
researchers at MIT have found a way to track the thickness of a droplet’s rim as it splashes up from a variety ... rim. Once the algorithms have processed the image data, the researchers can clearly separate the rim ... a droplet’s rim evolves as it splashes onto a surface. The researchers tested about 15 liquids of varying ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-describes-intricacies-splashing-dropletIngestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
hours, or even days. It’s longer than the emptying time of the stomach.” The researchers instead looked ... to rapidly soak up liquid and inflate. The researchers realized, however, that if the pill were made ... another, in a nearly impenetrable, gridlock pattern — an “anti-fatigue” feature that the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-expanding-pill-monitors-stomach-monthNew parameters in graduate mentoring
In addition to the expected scholarly advice, feedback on research, and letters of recommendation, ... which Sikes often sees several years into doctoral research, she reminds her students of the impact of ... notes that doctoral research can be isolating in many ways, both personally and professionally. To guard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoringBreakthrough in boiling
processes of heat transfer, with only modest success. But now a research team led by Emilio Baglietto, an ... different reactors, and for different operating conditions. “Our research opens up the prospect of advancing ... surrogate fuel assemblies and transparent walls, MIT researchers were able to observe the fine details in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breakthrough-boilingAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
An autonomous robotic system invented by researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic ... a maximum can be any quantifiable value that researchers want to measure, such as water depth or parts of ... studying how sun exposure impacts coral organisms. Image courtesy of the researchers Efforts to deploy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaInstrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water
transporting them to distant laboratories for analysis. To simplify the monitoring process, MIT researchers ... absorb heavy metals and other trace contaminants from water. The researchers then looked for ways to ... around a polymer stick to resemble a sort of egg beater or whisk. Testing the waters The researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/instrument-may-enable-mail-testing-detect-heavy-metals-waterBoosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems
tools for curbing climate change, but most are relatively inefficient and expensive. Now, researchers at ... catalyst surface. This concentration, the researchers have shown, can nearly double the performance of the ... that promotes the desired chemical transformations, the researchers found. In these electrochemical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/boosting-efficiency-carbon-capture-and-conversion-systemsSynthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength
structure of the lobster’s underbelly. The researchers ran the material through a battery of stretch and ... Image of a bouligand nanofibrous hydrogel. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers If the fabrication ... research scientist David Veysset PhD ’16, now at Stanford University; along with Zhao Qin, assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthWhy boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces
trivial phenomenon has been analyzed and understood for the first time by researchers at MIT — and may ... liquid through the tiny tubing of microfluidic devices used for biomedical and chemical research and ... research, Varanasi and his team showed that it would be possible to harness this phenomenon for some of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-boiling-droplets-can-race-across-hot-oily-surfacesJoystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely
the researchers The robotic system, whose movement is controlled through magnets, is designed to ... arteries and vessels. The researchers demonstrated the system in a “phantom,” a transparent model with ... Balicki of Philips Research North America. Tilt and twist Endovascular surgery is a specialized, minimally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/joystick-operated-robot-could-help-surgeons-treat-stroke-remotelyMIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
researchers applied the stickers to volunteers and showed the devices produced live, high-resolution images of ... instruments that translate the reflected sound waves into images. The researchers point out that even in their ... interrupting long-term imaging. In recent years, researchers have explored designs for stretchable ultrasound ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-stickers-can-see-inside-bodyA lasting — and valuable — legacy
of her life: electrochemistry. As an undergraduate at MIT, Gallant did an Undergraduate Research ... Opportunities Program project with Professor Yang Shao-Horn’s research group that went from her sophomore year ... real conviction and excitement in how she and her group members talked about research,” Gallant says. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyMIT events illuminate critical need for menstruation science
emerging new field that is bringing diverse expertise into gynecological research. It also aims to help ... 3D printing…MIT can cure endometriosis!” “No Women’s Health Research — No Start Up Companies!” Sept. ... prevent it but treat it better.” “I give kudos to MIT and the Center for Gynepathology Research [CGR] for ...
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