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A light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... Esther and Harold E. Edergton Career Development Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Buie and his colleagues identified a mechanism by which rain produces aerosols: As a falling droplet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-findsNew method for propulsion in fluids
journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... propel objects. In the natural world, the mechanism may influence the motion of icebergs floating on the ... such follow-up experiments, to figure out “whether the effect can be exploited, in an engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsFaculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley
Cohen, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley. Fog-harvesting systems generally consist of ... Shreerang Chhatre (PhD ’13), graduate student Siddarth Srinivasan, chemical engineering professor Robert ... mechanics associated with the fog droplets as they collect, grow and coalesce on the meshes. Large mesh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-gareth-mckinleyThe Power of Salt
according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, says reducing the size of the membrane needed to generate power would, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-salt“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... material, such as electric fields or differences in temperature. Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical ... engineering at Northwestern University who was not involved in this work, says this research “introduces a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that ... Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. The hydrogel, which Zhao detailed earlier this month, is a rubbery material, mostly composed of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsReducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Maher Damak, research scientist Seyed Reza ... including graduate student Maher Damak (left) and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa K. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-runoff-pollution-making-spray-droplets-less-bouncyTemperature difference propels droplets
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was not associated with this research. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsUsing sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... Connects. Friday, July 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-sensors-and-social-networks-make-slopes-saferInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and graduate student Maher Damak. Photo: Alexi Taylor Ko Infinite ... and Karim Khalil, all from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been fine-tuning their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competitionA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... management in high-performance devices.” Chang-Jin Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesNew material could make it easier to remove colon polyps
Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso is the senior ... Mechanical Engineering. Monday, July 29, 2019 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-could-make-it-easier-remove-colon-polypsHow to get conductive gels to stick when wet
Baoyang Lu, and professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao. Most electrodes used for biomedical ... uncoated polymer, he says. The result is a mechanically strong and conductive gel that bonds tightly with ... chemical engineering at Stanford University, who was not associated with this research. “Wet adhesives are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-conductive-gels-stick-when-wetDriving a human-machine collaboration
Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Is there a sort of future ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-human-machine-collaborationAlum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market
Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... Photo by: Lillie Paquette/School of Engineering The secret of the approach, according to McGovern, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketGraphene holds up under high pressure
associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureLet it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
water-resistant,” says Varanasi, who is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. “If you’re standing out in ... Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate provost at MIT. Credit for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproofA new way to make droplets bounce away
and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The key to the process, they explain, is ... In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayMoving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor
industry into closer partnership,” says MIT professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who will ... Rand, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-perovskite-advancements-lab-manufacturing-floor