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A New Mechanism for Catalyzing the Splitting of Water
researchers at MIT, the Skoltech Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin show in a new ... metal oxide catalysts best known as perovskites were investigated. In particular, the researchers ... reactions, researchers at MIT, the Skoltech Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-mechanism-catalyzing-splitting-waterHot New Solar Cell
MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar ... electricity. MIT-Solar-Thermal_1024.jpg While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same ... much power from a given area of panels. Photo courtesy of the researchers. Ever since 1961 it has been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellNew kind of supercapacitor made without carbon
Energy storage devices called supercapacitors have become a hot area of research, in part because ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive ... MIT-Semicapacitor_1024.jpg To demonstrate the supercapacitor's ability to store power, the researchers modified an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-supercapacitor-made-without-carbonNo more blackouts?
project. The researchers found they can ensure a microgrid’s stability by installing capacitors, which are ... researchers say this microgrid design process can be performed once to develop, for instance, power system ... the individual components are connected. The researchers say such a modular design may be easily ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/no-more-blackoutsHow to float your coffee creamer
zones. The results may help researchers understand how biological or chemical substances are spread by ... locations in a chip, at certain temperatures. With this new understanding, researchers could also engineer ... A drop of silicone oil “levitating” on a bath of liquid. Courtesy of the researchers She found that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerMagnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
a table. The researchers fabricated each structure from a new type of 3-D-printable ink that they infused ... By controlling the magnetic orientation of individual sections in the structure, the researchers can ... movements they have achieved have been relatively simple. For the most part, researchers mix a polymer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, ... — more than a thousandfold improvement. MIT-Metal-Air-Batteries-1024.jpg Researchers demonstrating the ... ability of aluminum to repel oil underwater. Courtesy of the researchers The findings are reported today ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesLobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
Qu and Fei Deng of Harvard University, and Zhao Qin, who is a research scientist in the MIT ... this was the case.” While much research has been devoted to the lobster’s distinctive, armor-like ... researchers wondered how resilient the lobster’s membrane would be to such small scrapes and cuts. They used ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberMini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
a standing position. Researchers claim the mini cheetah is designed to be “virtually indestructible,” ... identical, low-cost electric motors that the researchers engineered using off-the-shelf parts. Each motor can ... researchers will present the mini cheetah’s design at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mini-cheetah-first-four-legged-robot-do-backflip-0Experiments reveal the physics of evaporation
in detail at a molecular level, until now. New MIT research has revealed details of the process. ... Image courtesy of the researchers Yet surprisingly, this basic process has only now, for the first time, ... control and detect temperatures at the surface of an evaporating liquid, the researchers were able to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationHow strong is your knot?
stretchable fibers that change color in response to strain or pressure. The researchers showed that when they ... along with the force that was applied to the fiber as it was pulled tight. The researchers used the data ... the same knots that the researchers had tied physically using the fibers. When they compared the knots ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotSimple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ... of the researchers The system uses multiple layers of flat solar evaporators and condensers, lined up ... wicking material and back into the seawater, according to the researchers. Their demonstration unit was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationA new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome
Background edited by MIT News. Using this system, the researchers showed that they could grow a strain of ... makes it difficult to study them in a laboratory. Some researchers have designed devices in which they ... this system, the researchers were able to show that F. prausnitzii does influence cell pathways ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tool-modeling-human-gut-microbiomeTwo projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions
Low-Carbon Energy Centers, has awarded $900,000 in funding to two new research projects to advance ... meet these challenges with a cohort of industry members that are supporting promising MIT research ... Capture, Utilization, and Storage allows me to start a new research direction, bringing together a group of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-projects-receive-funding-technologies-avoid-carbon-emissionsThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
and map subtle changes in pressure. Image: Courtesy of the researchers: When subjects wore the glove ... a beaker created stronger pressure at the fingertips. The researchers say the tactile glove could help to ... a way that can be quantified and converted to a measurement of humidity. In recent years, researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuliEngineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip
elements that can communicate with each other. Figure courtesy of the researchers and edited by MIT News ... unlimited expandability depending on the combination of layers.” The researchers are eager to apply the ... external software or an Internet connection. In their new chip design, the researchers paired image sensors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-build-lego-artificial-intelligence-chipEngineers repurpose 19th-century photography technique to make stretchy, color-changing films
transform their color, reflecting different wavelengths as the material is strained. The researchers ... a strawberry, a coin, and a fingerprint. MIT_StretchyOptics-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT researchers have developed ... material’s colors are then converted to a map of compressive stresses (right). Courtesy of the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-repurpose-19th-century-photography-technique-make-stretchy-color-changing-filmsNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
For the last few decades, battery research has largely focused on rechargeable lithium-ion ... like pacemakers. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to improve the energy density of these ... Image: Courtesy of the researchers So far, the team has not yet experimentally achieved the full 50 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesMIT engineers grow “perfect” atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers
across South Korea. A crystal patchwork To produce a 2D material, researchers have typically employed ... a different orientation, damping a material’s conductivity. Even after exfoliating a 2D flake, researchers ... right). Recently, researchers have found other ways to fabricate 2D materials, by growing them on wafers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-grow-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-atom-thin-materials-industrial-silicon-wafersCustom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
images of a patient’s heart into a three-dimensional computer model, which the researchers can then 3D ... system, researchers can tune the outflowing air to rhythmically inflate the sleeve’s bubbles and contract ... the heart, mimicking its pumping action. The researchers can also inflate a separate sleeve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/custom-3d-printed-heart-replicas-look-and-pump-just-real-thing