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New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste

simultaneously reducing waste. The researchers demonstrated the membrane’s performance in lab-scale experiments ... production process. Courtesy of the researchers.   “This membrane technology not only cuts down on hazardous ... ways that the industry can be more efficient, and we found cryolite waste hadn’t been well-researched ...

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Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

be explored virtually. The researchers have dubbed the new tool “SeaSplat,” in reference to both its ... with SeaSplat is on the right. Image: Courtesy of the researchers “With SeaSplat, it can model ... 3D models of an underwater scene,” says MIT graduate student Daniel Yang. The researchers applied ...

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Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds

The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific ... Credit: Keith Ellenbogen A new research initiative developing at MIT Sea Grant, called LOBSTgER — short ... external data or models. LOBSTgER’s generative AI builds upon real photography, expanding the researchers ...

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Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air

developed at MIT by the Varanasi Research Group is hoping to reduce both the water needs at these plants and ... prototype systems, first on MIT’s natural-gas-powered cogeneration plant and then on MIT’s nuclear research ... power plant cooling towers. The project began as part of doctoral thesis research of Maher Damak PhD ...

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MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials

supply. The two materials, the researchers found, can be combined with water to make a supercapacitor — an ... alternative to batteries — that could provide storage of electrical energy. As an example, the MIT researchers ... no) to the cost of the foundation and still providing the needed structural strength. The researchers ...

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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries

Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility (BGNDRF) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The system is ... Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at MIT. “Being able to make drinking water with renewables, ... reservoirs and is more prevalent than fresh groundwater resources. The researchers see brackish groundwater ...

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FIREFLI uses light to sense poor blood supply in body tissue, can provide earlier diagnosis for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

costly, and invasive. A new approach introduced by researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ... complete the circuit, turning on the LED. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers The bioinspired, ingestible ...

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How to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber

reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... Urbana-Champaign, who was not involved in this research. “In this paper, the authors demonstrated, in a system ... team also included MIT research scientist Ivan Celanovic and former graduate students Yi Yeng, ...

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Wrinkle Predictions

microlenses.   MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... researchers say the theory, reported this week in the journal Nature Materials, may help to generally explain ... depending on the forces that act on that surface,” Dunkel explains. In computer simulations, the researchers ...

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Danielle Zurovcik

Danielle Zurovcik (SM ‘07, PhD ‘11) conducted her doctoral research on a high-tech medical device, ... device to constantly overcome its own inefficiencies.”   As part of her master’s degree research in the ... energy needed to power it. After years of research, experience, and experimentation, she understood that ...

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Domitilla Del Vecchio Bridges Math, Engineering, and Biology

afterward.” After getting her master’s, Del Vecchio worked in Rome for a year as a researcher before heading ... continuing her research on robotic control systems, and working on algorithms to guide automated vehicles ... training, Del Vecchio retained a fascination with biology. She started doing collaborative research with ...

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Scientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the researchers’ experimental polymer structure and ... incoming light.  The research team — which includes López Jiménez; Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow CD ... right.”  The researchers set out to fabricate a type of soft color composite — a material that changes ...

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For Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up

Researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from graphene’s imperfect form. Water filters of the future ... a fraction of the cost, the researchers say. MIT-Nanoscrolls-1024.jpg An electron microscopy image shows many ... courtesy of the researchers   “If you really want to make an engineering structure, at this point it’s not ...

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QS ranks MIT the world’s top university for 2016-17.

and study abroad — can be found at topuniversities.com. The QS rankings were based on research ...

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Eight MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering

"engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the ... Cancer Research, for contributions to self-assembly of polyelectrolytes, colloids, and block copolymers ... officer and director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, for contributions in ...

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3-D printing with cellulose

paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... and many researchers have attempted this but faced major obstacles. When heated, cellulose thermally ... typical filament materials used for 3-D printing, the researchers say. This, combined with the ...

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