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In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatMIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea ... MIT Sea Grant director Michael Triantafyllou and professor of mechanical engineering Themistoklis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-sea-grant-students-explore-intersection-technology-and-offshore-aquaculture-norway-0Separating finely mixed oil and water
mechanical support. The approach can be adapted to industrial processes used today for making large membranes ... a weaker filter. “There is no separate layer, it’s completely integrated, so the mechanical support is ... cloudy appearance. Anish Tuteja, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-finely-mixed-oil-and-waterExplained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ... perovskite, protecting it from exposure to air and moisture. But others are studying the exact mechanisms that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heightsUsing combustion to make better batteries
combustion. Now an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Class of 1954 ... task for Deng and her team — mechanical engineering postdoc Jianan Zhang, Valerie L. Muldoon ’20, SM ... of Mechanical Engineering. This article appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Energy Futures, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteriesThe answer may be blowing in the wind
worst possible conditions,” said Paul Sclavounos, a professor of mechanical engineering and naval ... a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of mechanical engineering, is developing ... Chemical Engineering, in his introduction to the event. In sessions devoted to technology, deployment and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/answer-may-be-blowing-windWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... that, but on a far, far grander scale.” Behind Keystone Smith, who studied mechanical engineering and ... a team of engineers, including Daniel Bridgers SM ’12 and Dan Ainge ’12 — Keystone’s system allows the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsProcessing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biomass fuels, including wood, peat, ... Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who on a long walk-and-talk along the Charles River ... product. It was 2011, and Kung was at MIT as a biological engineering grad student focused on cancer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsProducts of Progress
a technology problem in the field; we’re facing a distribution problem,” says Wu, who studied mechanical ... engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ... That’s when Wu engineered a solution. “We were building this pedal-powered machine, when really all we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/products-progressAddressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
Glicksman, a professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, drew on his previous research in ... mechanical engineering Dan Frey contributed to the market research phase of the project and the initial ... Engineer Eric Verploegen of MIT D-Lab have released their open-source design for a forced-air ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/addressing-food-insecurity-arid-regions-open-source-evaporative-cooling-chamber-designWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ... of the drink warmer during a class exercise in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Usually, the ... testing our engineering skills,” says Alba. “Can we take something from the beginning of an idea to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, heads up their autonomy effort; Russ ... experimental data,” says Bazant, the E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering and a professor of ... Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Sra ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityMIT announces 2022 Bose grants for ambitious ideas
year's recipients are: Gang Chen of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. With his proposal, ... bold research projects across diverse areas of study including biology, engineering, and the ... Engineering and Computer Science Sangeeta Bhatia; Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering Gang ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2022-bose-grants-ambitious-ideasHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, who is the paper’s lead author. “They were empty, there was air inside,” he says. “No one had ... work shows the potential of both photonic engineering and materials science to advance solar energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberAutonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ... scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for ... International Journal of Robotics Research. Seeing a shape in the dots The engineering of such an inspection is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesA new way to harness waste heat
Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... was not around at that time” for the battery electrodes, as well as advances in engineering the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatUnlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence
| Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education International Horizontal Students taking ... engineering. “The way I look at it, we are trying to clone the oceanographer and put our understanding of how ... engineering expertise. Schmidt and Benjamin have structured 2.680 to ensure students have a working knowledge ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-marine-mysteries-artificial-intelligencePhonon catalysis could lead to a new field
just like it's very hot,” says Asegun Henry, professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of ... temperatures engineers could use cheaper materials to build them. This would lower the cost of fuel cells and ... Materials Science and Engineering Collaboration Horizontal By selectively heating specific phonons without ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phonon-catalysis-could-lead-new-fieldFaculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux
incorporate obstacle-avoidance functions to protect the AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students ... them moving all at once toward separate destinations. But that’s just what a team of engineers led by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-pierre-lermusiauxWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
Yagüe. “Over the last several decades,” says Varanasi, the Doherty Associate Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering, “people have always searched for a durable surface treatment” to make condensers hydrophobic. With ... negligible degradation,” says Gleason, the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-last