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System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat
a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a way to generate ... a sterilization system is likely still a few years off, the researchers say. Since the other components, except ... quality of the research is very high,” Prasher adds. “Access to passive sterilization techniques for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-can-sterilize-medical-tools-using-solar-heatMIT graduate engineering, business, economics programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2022
measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research, and students. The magazine’s less-frequent rankings ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-engineering-business-economics-programs-ranked-highly-us-news-2022Saving the radome
1966, it was used initially to pioneer weather radar research. As the years passed and technology ... transfer data at higher rates," says Mary Knapp '11, PhD ’18, who is now a research scientist at ... can use it to educate future generations and support forward-thinking research on campus," says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeGiving robots better moves
gripper design to offer robots that are more adaptable. Image courtesy of the researchers. The robot fleet ... students to develop a broad familiarity with robotics research. Colleagues also frequently shared their ... researcher, and his early work, as well as the projects I worked on with him, are very much fundamental to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-movesMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
Though Yang is now a rising star in his field, it took many years before he decided to research robotics ... international conferences, Yang enjoys discussing and sharing his research with the general public. He recently ... shared his work on certifiable perception during MIT’s first research SLAM public showcase. He also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionA flexible way to grab items with feeling
professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University who was not invovled with the research ... devised by other research teams. And they also plan to develop a three-fingered gripper that could be ... Toyota Research Institute and the U.S. Office of Naval Research provided funds to support this work. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-way-grab-items-feelingHow to prevent biofilms in space
the experiment, researchers investigated a variety of surfaces treated in different ways and exposed ... Flores and Luis Zea at the University of Colorado, and Jonathan Galakza at NASA Ames Research Center. ... infections, and 80 percent of chronic infections, the researchers say. One approach to preventing biofilms is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
from concentrated, industrial sources. MIT-Co2Capture-01-press_1024.jpg Researchers uncovered how ... Catalysis, the researchers reveal the hidden functioning of how carbon dioxide can be both captured and ... offers. “This tells future researchers that this process could be feasible for industrial streams, where ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
cooled while cool reactors get heated. This keeps the heat within the system. The researchers also added ... enerate separate streams of pure hydrogen and oxygen. The researchers carried out detailed simulations of ... the research. “The ability to make hydrogen is the linchpin to producing liquid fuels from sunlight.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelWobbly gel mat trains muscle cells to work together
the researchers used an external magnet underneath the mat to move the embedded particles back and ... mechanical forces. For their prototype, the researchers created small, micron-sized magnetic bars, by first ... researchers placed an external magnet on a track beneath the gel mat and programmed the magnet to move back ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wobbly-gel-mat-trains-muscle-cells-work-togetherStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
chiral structures. The researchers envision that the structures, once formed, could serve as spiral ... materials. In their new study, the researchers focused on a special type of nematic liquid crystal ... structures,” Zhang says. The researchers modeled the fluid’s dynamics and found that the large spiral patterns ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsThis ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
changes that could signal the progression of disease. In preliminary experiments, the researchers found ... materials that allowed us to design miniaturized ultrasound stickers,” Zhou says. The researchers precisely ... sticker’s collected data, the researchers observed clear and early signs of acute liver failure, which they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organsPrintable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
that are manufactured today using traditional casting methods. The researchers envision that the new ... researchers showed that 3D printing, broadly also known as additive manufacturing, can be a faster way to cool ... idea into practice, the researchers ordered a formulation of printable powder, based on their new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-aluminum-alloy-sets-strength-records-may-enable-lighter-aircraft-partsUltrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air
shake the water out. The researchers have developed an ultrasonic device that vibrates at high ... to desalinate,” says Svetlana Boriskina, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of ... moisture and became saturated. The researchers then placed each sample on the ultrasonic actuator and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasonic-device-dramatically-speeds-harvesting-water-airDavid Hu
Larson invited Professor Hu to record himself teaching his mosquito-in-the-rain research for high school ... boil down university research to a high-school level,” says Professor Hu, “but the question of how ... Prospective-Students Prospective-Undergrad Research Education Graduate Undergraduate Alumni /node/430 Professor, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-huCan an LED-Filled “Robot Garden” Make Coding More Accessible?
developed a tablet-operated system that illustrates their cutting-edge research on distributed algorithms ... Robotics and Automation (ICRA), researchers describe the system’s dual functions as a visual embodiment of ... Among the other researchers on the new project were PhD candidate Joseph DelPreto, postdocs Ankur Mehta ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-led-filled-%E2%80%9Crobot-garden%E2%80%9D-make-coding-more-accessibleTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Alberto Rodriguez
researchers can connect with, so it’s a good place for collaboration. It’s also a great project for my ... students that will progress our research in the lab significantly. What are some of the technical ... the focus of my research. I look at it from several perspectives. One is design: How do you develop ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-alberto-rodriguezGreen Eelgrass, Blue Carbon
Protection Agency (EPA), researchers at Boston University, the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, ... researchers have documented in other studies in and around the North Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, the study also ... fall on the MIT Sea Grant website. The work was carried out by a team of researchers that included: EPA ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/green-eelgrass-blue-carbonStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
of his time as a master’s student researching, and the other is energy efficiency. Because it’s ... research on membrane fouling, Swaminathan had his eye on solving the energy efficiency problem. “My idea is ... rounded. As a researcher, I can now do both theory and experiments.” The system he’s developing can take ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-jaichander-swaminathan-sm-14