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Moving water and earth
these very scary degrees of freedom,” says Kamrin, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Shape ... flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ... too unwieldy: How do you quantify a pebble’s contours? The MIT researchers found that instead of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
be able to make these batteries anywhere at low cost,” says Alsym co-founder and MIT Professor Kripa ... and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons. MIT ... a telecommunications company with serial entrepreneurs and longtime members of the MIT community Ray Stata ’57, SM ’58 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futurePower Efficiency in the Violin
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... fluid dynamicists at MIT, along with violinmakers at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, have ... back plate, they found, would boost a violin’s sound. A1-MIT-Violin-Design.jpg The researchers found ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ... a limpet’s shell can flash brilliantly even in murky water. MIT-Shell-Design-02.jpg Scientists at MIT and ... its blue-striped appearance./ Courtesy of the researchers Now scientists at MIT and Harvard University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
assistant professor and a research affiliate in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, says the team’s results ... Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... experiments — including one in which they simply placed the solar sponge on the roof of MIT’s Building 3 — the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightNew scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ... engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... MIT-Driving-Sand-1.JPG Engineers at MIT have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-scaling-law-predicts-how-wheels-drive-over-sandNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... Chu | MIT News Office Culture Education Horizontal Associate Professor A. John Hart's new 3D ... MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsNew approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
findings are reported today in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ... land instead of bouncing off. MIT-Mesh-Droplets-1024.jpg Photos illustrate how the tiny droplets ... Varanasi Research Group Now, a team of MIT researchers has found a way to balance those properties and get ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-makes-sprayed-droplets-hit-and-stick-their-targetsSolar 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 An MIT study shows that electrical vehicle batteries could have a useful and profitable second life ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteriesJoystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely
Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Xuanhe Zhao have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons ... MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat ... save the patient’s life and preserve their brain function. MIT-Robo-Stroke-01-1024.jpg With a modified ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/joystick-operated-robot-could-help-surgeons-treat-stroke-remotelyEngineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves
learning along with data from wave tank experiments, MIT engineers led by Professor Themis Sapsis and Dr. ... predict. Now, MIT engineers have found a new way to model how waves break. The team used machine learning ... says study author Themis Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-use-artificial-intelligence-capture-complexity-breaking-wavesEngineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs
reported in the journals,” says Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We show ... | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Jeehwan Kim and a team of engineers have developed ... a “screen door effect” such that users perceive stripes in the space between pixels. Now, MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-invent-vertical-full-color-microscopic-ledsOutside-the-Box Thinker
it himself, of course. At age 13, Nathan Spielberg — now an MIT senior — began building his first ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... MIT, he has held onto this tenet, but turned his attention to a new means of production: 3-D printing. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
MIT-Smarter-Streetlights_1024.jpg “The way we measure street lighting is still very primitive,” says Sumeet Kumar PhD ’14. Kumar and ... generate its street views. Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT There must be a better way, a team of ... researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
21, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Assistant Professor ... engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... The research was led by Jeehwan Kim, the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwarePaper-folding art inspires better bandages
the adhesive will peel away from the skin with just a few bends of the affected joint. Now MIT ... kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesStudy finds potential in brackish groundwater desalination
groundwater, less than 1 percent currently comes from brackish groundwater. MIT ... -Brackish-Groundwater-1024.jpg Based on measurements taken at more than 100,000 wells around the country, the MIT researchers ... around the country, appears in the journal Water Research, in a paper by Yvana Ahdab SM ’17, an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-potential-brackish-groundwater-desalinationEngineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ... Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ... or dyes. MIT-Structural-Color-02-1024.jpg Seen from above, transparent droplets in a Petri dish, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-make-clear-droplets-produce-iridescent-colorsCell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade
Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have tracked the evolution of individual cells within an initially ... “invasive tips” that eventually broke away to spread elsewhere. MIT-Tumor-Invasion-1024.jpg A tumor’s ... “You can think of the tumor like a sponge,” says Ming Guo, assistant professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-stiffness-may-indicate-whether-tumors-will-invade