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Study Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to ... no single technology — established or emerging — offers benefits on all fronts, the researchers ... And what role might be played by the many other PV technologies now being developed in research labs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesPushing through sand
researchers say the equation can be used to optimize the way vehicles drive over gravel and soil, such as ... When the researchers pushed the simulation to model three-dimensional objects, both the continuum model ... RFT could make accurate predictions in any other material besides grains, the researchers “went ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-through-sandMirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
be fluorescent for a very long time.” Over this light-generating layer, the researchers placed ... angles is bounced back down into the chip. The researchers added a third feature below the ... optical shift The researchers originally designed the chip as an array of miniature laser sources, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mirrored-chip-could-enable-handheld-dark-field-microscopesHow cell mechanics influences everything
of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Mingo-Guo-01-press_1024.jpg Ming Guo’s research bridges multiple ... form influences the growth of a tissue, organism, or disease such as cancer. His research bridges ... animal cell research, gravitating to work by David Weitz, a Harvard University physicist who specializes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cell-mechanics-influences-everythingTackling the world’s challenges in the field
Interning, researching and teaching in over 30 countries around the world, MISTI students develop these ... — matches nearly 1,000 students with internship, teaching, and research opportunities in leading labs, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-world%E2%80%99s-challenges-fieldRevolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence
researchers are working on projects that improve everyday life and make humans safer, more efficient, and ... making our portable products more intelligent, Professor Sanjay Sarma and Research Scientist Josh Siegel ... Research Scientist Josh Siegel developed a device that can connect circuit breakers to the ‘Internet of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolutionizing-everyday-products-artificial-intelligenceErnst Frankel, shipping expert and professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 95
After his retirement in 1995, Frankel remained active in both teaching and research. When Elon Musk ... announced the Hyperloop concept in 2013, Frankel received some unexpected media attention for research he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernst-frankel-shipping-expert-and-professor-emeritus-ocean-engineering-dies-95-0Using combustion to make better batteries
internal combustion engine for powering vehicles. As the energy transition progresses, researchers ... batteries may increase tenfold or more in the next decade. Given such projections, many researchers are ... cathode. The MIT researchers began their search for cost savings by considering the methods now used to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteriesMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... missions of the recently launched Climate Project at MIT, which focus on research areas such as ... researchers at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco, he is adapting the approach to crops native ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeCreating innovative health solutions for individuals and populations
School. For his postdoctoral research, he transitioned to the fields of chemical and biomedical ... engineering in the laboratory of Professor Robert Langer. Traverso’s research interests today include ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-innovative-health-solutions-individuals-and-populationsNew bioadhesive strategy can prevent fibrous encapsulation around device implants on peripheral nerves
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers New research published this week in the journal Science Advances ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-bioadhesive-strategy-can-prevent-fibrous-encapsulation-around-device-implantsNew Microscope Creates Near-Real-Time Videos of Nanoscale Processes
process. Researchers use one as an inlet and the other as an outlet to circulate and refresh the solutions ... to real-time video. In one demonstration of the instrument’s capabilities, the researchers scanned ... Researchers have also found that it’s difficult to control each scanner separately and get them to work with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-creates-near-real-time-videos-nanoscale-processesHow cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components
way through cytoplasm, and may therefore feel more resistance. The researchers found that the ... microscopic objects. The researchers trapped and pulled each bead toward the cell edge at a constant speed and ... researchers reasoned that an organelle would feel less resistance while moving through a more fluid-like, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cytoplasm-%E2%80%9Cfeels%E2%80%9D-cell%E2%80%99s-componentsGoing for the gold
including Salmini from Shred; Kirk Goldsberry, vice president of strategic research for the San Antonio ... Shred. While additional research and testing are needed before goggles can completely eliminate the ... effects of flat light, for Ligety the research conducted by the team in 2.S983 shows that there is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-goldMIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2019
a school’s faculty, research, and students. The magazine’s less-frequent rankings of programs in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-engineering-business-science-programs-ranked-highly-us-news-2019Albatross robot takes flight
sailboat. The glider is also relatively lightweight, weighing about 6 pounds. The researchers hope that in ... of high- and low-speed layers of air. Specifically, the researchers found the bird is able to perform ... researchers decided to test this “critical maneuver” — the act of transitioning between flying in the air and ...
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