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Solving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
their paper. Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, says, “We wanted to ... and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering. As a result, understanding of the electrical ... ultrathin layers that amplify the hopping mechanism, “We are able to achieve ultraconductive, as well as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
projects is one by Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering Evelyn Wang and chemistry professor ... Professor Antoine Allanore of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Another project, led by ... Karthish Manthiram, the Warren K. Lewis Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, seeks to develop an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-make-inroads-global-food-and-water-challengesAdvanced silicon solar cells
Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and lab director. ... Mechanical Engineering have identified defects that may be causing a promising type of high-efficiency ... Ashley Morishige, postdoc in mechanical engineering. That behavior is perplexing because manufacturers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “Smart windows that regulate ... to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heat3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... Spadaccini, who is the director of LLNL’s Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing. “It has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ... MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
Chen, a mechanical engineering PhD student. “But those calculations scale with the fourth order of the ... of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... Andrejevic, a PhD student in materials science and engineering. “We can think of these atoms as spheres ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysWiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence
Hosoi, who is the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering as well as an applied math ... Center (SSRC), and is now advised by Ali Jadbabaie, the JR East Professor of Engineering and head of the ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and School of Engineering Associate Dean Anette “Peko” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wiggling-toward-bio-inspired-machine-intelligenceNew battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
of mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, doctoral student Aliza Khurram, and postdoc Mingfu He. ... Mechanical Engineering provided support for the project. Thursday, September 20, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-battery-gobbles-carbon-dioxideMaking a remarkable material even better
Mechanical Engineering, and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering, set out to ... says Lin Zhao PhD ’19 of mechanical engineering. “So in our work, we’ve been trying to understand ... in parallel, graduate student Elise Strobach of mechanical engineering had been learning how best to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-remarkable-material-even-betterUsing aluminum and water to make clean hydrogen fuel — when and where it’s needed
mechanical engineering at MIT. “Using aluminum as our source, we can ‘store’ hydrogen at a density that’s 10 ... reaction,” says Laureen Meroueh PhD ’20, who earned her doctorate in mechanical engineering. IMG_7714 ... becomes a mechanism for storing hydrogen — and a very effective one,” says Douglas P. Hart, professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-aluminum-and-water-make-clean-hydrogen-fuel-%E2%80%94-when-and-where-it%E2%80%99s-neededThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... Science Foundation to improve climate modeling. These waves are potentially “the key mechanism for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-powerWater, water everywhere … even in the air
including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... technology,” says Yang Yang, a professor of engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
David H. Koch Professor in Engineering and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering; Michal ... adding that this work demonstrates the importance of “looking at the detailed mechanism carefully.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ... a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airGetting more heat out of sunlight
Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering; and five others. The key to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightTapping the hidden value of farm waste, while reducing harmful burn off
the poverty line? Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ... MIT, and Kevin Kung, a PhD student in biological engineering and fellow in the MIT Tata Center for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tapping-hidden-value-farm-waste-while-reducing-harmful-burnExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
Energy Yang Shao-Horn, and professor of mechanical engineering Douglas P. Hart. While several other ... a professor of engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who was not involved in this research. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesGetting the Salt Out
well, but pure water does not. McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-salt-outWaves in the Deep
a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deep