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New 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste

Professor A. John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Waste removal Conventional vat ... waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ... solvents. MIT-Dissolvable-Supports-01-press_1024x768.jpg Researchers have developed a resin that turns into ...

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New kind of supercapacitor made without carbon

Materials, in a paper by Mircea Dincă, an MIT associate professor of chemistry; Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive ... MIT-Semicapacitor_1024.jpg To demonstrate the supercapacitor's ability to store power, the researchers modified an ...

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Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”

Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, ... MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from ... three-dimensional, interactive structures and devices. MIT-3D 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing ...

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See-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 ... HKUST-MIT Consortium. Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor ... to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ...

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A droplet walks into an electric field …

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A team of researchers including Professor A. John Hart have found ... cause the droplet to burst apart, creating a fine, electrified mist. MIT ... droplet has always been an involved mathematical task. Now, MIT researchers have found that the conditions ...

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Search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters

| MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Researchers including Professor Thomas Peacock ... can confound and delay critical search-and-rescue operations. Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss ... sea where missing objects or people are likely to be. MIT-Rescue-Algorithm-01_1024.jpg  A new ...

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How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject

work by recent MIT graduates Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Henri-Louis Girard PhD ’20 with professor of ... MIT-Crystal-Droid-01-PRESS.jpg When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on ... processes and often requires expensive countermeasures such as water pretreatment. Now, findings from MIT ...

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Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control

MIT-neuroprosthetic-glove-1024.jpg Professor Xuanhe Zhao has developed an inflatable robotic hand. The low-cost soft prosthetic hand ... August 15, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Maker Horizontal Professor Xuanhe Zhao has ... that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ...

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Design prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A team led by Associate Professor Ellen ... interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ...

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Stretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body

Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly ... published its results online in the journal Advanced Materials. mit-stretchy-optics-1024.jpg Zhao has ...

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Nylon fibers made to flex like muscles

many applications, from robotics to components in the automobile and aviation industries. Now, MIT ... key ingredient, cheap and ubiquitous, is ordinary nylon fiber. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg This ... Materials by Seyed Mirvakili, a doctoral candidate, and Ian Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in ...

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High-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch

Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... | MIT News Office Culture Horizontal Using a high-speed camera, Associate Professor Alexandra Techet ... MIT-Archer-Fish-1024.jpg In addition to spit-shooting, an archer fish, pictured here, can launch itself from a near ...

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Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead

Nelson, the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at MIT. “There’s good reason to believe that second ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ... behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ...

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How slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide

such batteries, and Varanasi worked with MIT professors Gareth McKinley and Yet-Ming Chiang on ... An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... cosmetics, and other viscous liquids slide out of their containers, as devised by Kripa Varanasi, a professor ...

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A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

N. Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This is an ... Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine ... Fahrenheit. MIT-Thermal-Batteries-1024-press.jpg A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell (size 1 cm x 1 cm) mounted on ...

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How to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand

options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ... processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ... and does not require complex computational tools as other methods do. MIT-SoftPush-01_0.jpg A new MIT ...

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Bursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new study from Assistant Professor ... ubiquitous, indoors and out. A new MIT study shows how bubbles contaminated with bacteria can act as tiny ... can emit hundreds of droplets.   MIT-Bacteria-Bubbles-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found that ...

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Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition

with Vishnu Jayaprakash PhD'21 and MIT Professor Kripa Varanasi. “Biologic drugs are capable of ... 30 years ago, when students, along with the late MIT Professor Ed Roberts and David T. Morgenthaler, ... The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies ...

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Student Spotlight: John Lewandowski (PhD Candidate)

conversely, less costly but also less sensitive.” John Lewandowski, a PhD candidate in Associate Professor ... John Hart’s research group. According to Lewandowski, a PhD student in Associate Professor John Hart’s ... Disease Diagnostic Group (DDG), quite a bit of attention. DDG won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship ...

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Engineers design bionic “heart” for testing prosthetic valves, other cardiac devices

and animal tests,” says Ellen Roche, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “[The new ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who specializes in developing hydrogel-based ... Collaboration International Horizontal Engineers at MIT including Assistant Professor Ellen Roche and Associate ...

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