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MISTI pilots conversations in energy

picture of where I want to fit into this.” Titan Hartono, a PhD student in mechanical engineering ... during the first MISTI Career Conversations: Energy series: Ramboll, the international engineering ... engineering and minor in energy studies. “Throughout the series, I did get this insight. It was clear to see ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/misti-pilots-conversations-energy

Rooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience

a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can harness our smart dishwashers, ... stress on the grid, MIT engineers say. An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects ... of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers present a blueprint for how grid-edge devices ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilience

Oceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals

professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, and Olav Rune Godø of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oceanographers-produce-first-ever-images-entire-cod-shoals-0

Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-lead

Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?

a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ... adoption as a wearable textile. Now, MIT engineers have spun polyethylene into fibers and yarns designed to ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-future

New technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells

development is slow — typically 10 to 25 years,” says Tonio Buonassisi, an associate professor of mechanical ... engineering at MIT and senior author of the paper. “One of the things that makes the process slow is the long ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cells

Researchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells

Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cells

Solar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries

by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT-Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteries

Covid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output

mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, research scientist Ian Marius Peters, and three others in Singapore ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/covid-19-shutdown-led-increased-solar-power-output

How to clean solar panels without water

graduate student Sreedath Panat and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Despite concerted ...

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Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

(ICRA). Their study co-author is John Leonard, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Aquatic optics ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-technique-removes-effect-water-underwater-scenes-0

How to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion

doctoral students Simon Rufer, Tal Joseph, and Zara Aamer, and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa ...

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Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds

artist at MIT Sea Grant Keith Ellenbogen and MIT mechanical engineering PhD student Andreas ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/merging-ai-and-underwater-photography-reveal-hidden-ocean-worlds

The Quest for Clean Water

Mechanical Engineering. “They don’t map over, because when you start looking into the requirements, they ... rural Indian villages, Amos Winter, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International awinter@mit.edu Vertical Cleaner water, ...

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A material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will

temperatures.” Yongjie Hu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace ngineering at the University of ...

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Study suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2

reported similar demonstrations, but the mechanisms driving the electrochemical reaction have remained ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions

of Shipping Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, discusses her work with ... grow millions of times faster than plants and dozens of times faster than microalgae. Engineering these ... Sciences; Architecture and Planning; Engineering; and Science; plus the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gas

Advancing the energy transition amidst global crises

a problem to where it’s safer. Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, described ... (MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th Annual ... Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus, founding director of MITEI, and ...

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Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air

The technology was originally envisioned by professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi to ... Jacopo Buongiorno in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering immediately spotted a good ... further testing of the system with the help of NRL engineer Ed Block. With its 24/7 operation and its ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-air

Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution

Laboratory and the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering 's Ocean Science and Engineering lab is ... MechE’s Ocean Science and Engineering lab is developing a surface-based sonar system that could accelerate ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-based-sonar-system-could-rapidly-map-ocean-floor-high-resolution

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