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Three MIT graduate students awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention
cutting-edge research in the space of human augmentation. Clites also serves as a guest lecturer for various ... undergraduate courses at MIT and Harvard, and mentors undergraduate researchers at MIT and surrounding schools. ... a professor and a researcher, invent imminently-translatable clinical solutions and establish a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-graduate-students-awarded-lemelson-mit-student-prize-inventionA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
MIT-Dew-Omniphobicity-1024.jpg This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers ... with a specially designed shape. Images by Kyle Wilke Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to ... surface and any corrosive liquids that it may be exposed to, the researchers say. And because the new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesStudent Profile: Julia Sokol, PhD Candidate
Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab. “That’s our focus – to make that happen, especially in ... a research assistant at Schlumberger, then working at a small sustainability consulting firm. Wanting ... sustainability with my interest in fundamental research in fluid mechanics and system design.” Rather than flood ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-profile-julia-sokol-phd-candidateA new way to make droplets bounce away
researchers at MIT demonstrates a new approach to minimizing the contact between droplets and surfaces. While ... research, Girard says. “When we started doing so, we saw a drastic reaction,” reducing the total ... and from different materials, the researchers say — it’s just the size and spacing that matters. For ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
courtesy of researchers The appendage design is inspired by the way plants grow, which involves the ... units together and feed the chain out, unit by unit, as a rigid appendage. The researchers presented the ... same kind of functionality, at a certain abstract level,” Asada says. The researchers designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
study examined several decades of published research and analysis on fluid flows. It found that, while ... A lengthy transitional zone is just as significant as the first and final zones, the researchers say. The ... work,” Lienhard says. The theory for flat surfaces was set out by the German researcher Ernst Pohlhausen ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesMaking data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ... Isolat research produced a number of tangible impacts, informing not only MIT’s reopening and testing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plansMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
tumors to metastasize. The researchers had been investigating how these cells interact with their ... push on the membrane’s surface. The force required to deform the surface can give researchers an idea ... detach from the cells and inflate like a balloon. The researchers applied various constant pressures to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisFrom “cheetah-noids” to humanoids
Kim’s lab as part of the MIT UROP – or Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. For his UROP ... research and undergraduate thesis, he began to look at how to utilize pieces built for the electronics ... real-world applications, its controllers, software, and research can be trivially ported to a big robot that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ccheetah-noids%E2%80%9D-humanoidsCharlene Xia ’17, SM ’20
Xia. Xia poured over her extensive cookbook collection, researching international cuisines as she ... collaborative research projects focused on the health of the planet. “I saw this as a super fun opportunity to ... out how to communicate these data back to the research team, Xia drew upon her master’s degree ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charlene-xia-%E2%80%9917-sm-%E2%80%9920Soft robots that grip with the right amount of force
more robustly, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), ... in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), have designed a system that can grasp ... nice advantages to do that.” Suh wrote the paper alongside Naveen Kuppuswamy, a senior research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceEngineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures
pressures similar to that of a concrete block. As a structural demonstration, the researchers constructed ... researcher in both MIT’s Media Lab and Lincoln Laboratory, who is also founder and director of Evenline. ... researchers found that the strongest bricks were able to hold up to pressures that are comparable to what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-building-structuresEngineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
and Pier Rivano, a former visiting research scholar in Traverso’s lab. Easier injections This project ... By altering the density of the depot, the researchers can tune the rate at which the drug molecules ... are released into the body. In this study, the researchers showed they could change the density by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-better-way-deliver-long-lasting-drugsMIT J-WAFS awards eight grants in seventh round of seed funding
coordinate, and lead research related to water and food that will have a measurable and international impact ... J-WAFS’ flagship funding initiative, aimed at catalyzing innovative research across the Institute that ... can remove contaminants from water, research supporting smallholder farmers’ productivity and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-j-wafs-awards-eight-grants-seventh-round-seed-fundingSlowing the Spread
and classrooms became unnervingly quiet, there was a thrum of activity among faculty and researchers ... . Research teams across the Institute quickly swung into action, hatching plans and developing technologies ... this spring to work on Covid-19 related research. The unprecedented nature of this global pandemic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spreadGlassy carbon, now with less heat
Last winter, MIT researchers discovered that a phenol-formaldehyde polymer transformed into ... adding a small fraction of carbon nanotubes to this material. Glassy carbon 1024.jpg Research by MIT ... nanostructures impede manufacturing, however, we are finding a theme across several research areas that when ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
research is described in a paper published in Joule. “The transition to clean energy requires energy ... Emre Gençer, a research scientist with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and a member of the team. “Our ... instance.” The rechargeable zinc-manganese dioxide (Zn-MnO 2) battery the researchers created beat out other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamMIT class journeys to fascinating places where mechanical engineering affects biology
Even for a second-year PhD student researching the mechanics of living cells, the influence of ... I can potentially make a difference.” Understanding the mechanics of biology can take researchers in ... same time, research out of the National Science Foundation Center of Emerging Behavior of Integrated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-class-journeys-fascinating-places-where-mechanical-engineering-affects-biologyHow light can vaporize water without the need for heat
In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that ... any source of heat. MIT-Evaporation-Light-01-press_0-1.jpg Researchers at MIT have discovered a new ... climate models.” A newfound phenomenon The new work builds on research reported last year, which described ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-need-heatFeatured Article: Going clean
increasingly drastic, there is a mounting sense of urgency for researchers and engineers to develop scalable ... many researchers across MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering that have entered the race to ... Tonio Buonassisi, right, and research scientist Dr. Shijing Sun in front of the solar cell fabrication ...
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