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How to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion
make the other part worse. Now, using nanoscale filtering membranes, researchers at MIT have added ... percent, they say. The new findings are reported today in the journal ACS Energy Letters, in a paper by MIT ... doctoral students Simon Rufer, Tal Joseph, and Zara Aamer, and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-solve-bottleneck-co2-capture-and-conversionWatering the world
MIT-Drop-Irrigation.JPG Engineers at MIT have found a way to cut the cost of solar-powered drip systems by half, by ... environments where they cost farmers more than $3,000 per acre to install. Now engineers at MIT have found ... led by Amos Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, plans to further modify the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watering-worldArtificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... biomedical applications. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg The tiny coils in the fiber developed by MIT ... reported today in the journal Science. The new fibers were developed by MIT postdoc Mehmet Kanik and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-%E2%80%9Cmuscles%E2%80%9D-achieve-powerful-pulling-forceAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
An autonomous robotic system invented by researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic ... coral reef most exposed to air. MIT-Robotic-Sampling-1024.jpg Even in unexplored waters, an ... MIT-developed robotic system can efficiently sniff out valuable, hard-to-find spots to collect samples from. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
is authored by Fay and Anette “Peko” Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Running, ... a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... how certain shoe properties will affect a runner’s performance. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performancePing pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ... MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... its end effector will meet an object, in real-time,” says MIT graduate student David Nguyen. Nguyen is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ping-pong-bot-returns-shots-high-speed-precisionEldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall
urgent societal issue. To help address the eldercare challenge, a team of MIT engineers is looking to ... them by rapidly inflating side airbags if they begin to fall. MIT-ElderCare-Robot-01-press_1024.jpg Six ... of multiple possible assistance scenarios with a prototype of a new robot being developed at MIT. Top ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-and-stand-and-catches-them-if-they-fallStudy shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable
systems.” The study’s MIT co-authors are Brooke Bao, Enoch Ellis, and professor of mechanical engineering ... fuels, making hydrogen less of a “green” fuel over its entire life cycle. A new process developed by MIT ... MIT_Hydrogen-FOOTPRINT-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg MIT engineers have developed a new aluminum-based process to produce hydrogen gas, that they are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-making-hydrogen-soda-cans-and-seawater-scalable-and-sustainableAlex Hattori
professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s Maker Czar. Culpepper helped Hattori find the makerspaces and ... Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ... not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-hattoriSpray tuning
McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ... specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... used a strobe light technique, originally developed by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton, to create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/spray-tuningDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
practical direction. MIT-Student-Winston-1024.jpg Crystal Winston Image: Ian MacLellan “He was like, ‘Yeah, ... mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... in the lab of Associate Professor John Hart, she has been building and refining this robot for more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swimResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
visible and infrared radiation are often naturally linked. MIT-Thermal-Control-1024.jpg The visual and ... heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyDesalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Zhang’s study co-authors include MIT graduate student Yang Zhong and Evelyn Wang, the Ford Professor of ... Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... MIT-Solar-Desalinization-01-PRESS_0.jpg A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir. Credit: Jintong Gao and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-waterCelebrating the life and legacy of George Hatsopoulos
Corporation. But at an event hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in January, Hatsopoulos’ ... University of Athens, he enrolled at MIT where he earned a bachelor’s degree, master of science degree, ... a business, Hatsopoulos continued to teach at MIT. Fueled by his passion for education and love of fun, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-life-and-legacy-george-hatsopoulosProtecting machine learning datasets
to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... friend, Antoni Rosinol SM’18, a graduate student in MIT AeroAstro, started brainstorming ideas that solved ... practical problems outside of the lab. They joined MIT Fuse, a micro-accelerator program organized by the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-machine-learning-datasetsMicrofluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing ... MIT-BioChip-Sensor-01-1024.jpg Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to infection triggers an inflammation chain reaction ... Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, MIT researchers describe a microfluidics-based system that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutesClass Close-Up: 2.729 Design for Scale
That same year, students and instructors in the MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale collaborated ... hospitals,” explains Toria Yan, a senior studying mechanical engineering at MIT. Class close up_Okea 1024.jpg ... Yang, class co-instructor and professor of mechanical engineering. “We are asking students to design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2729-design-scaleTeaching first-year students fundamental principles through creation
MIT – a passion for making. Whether it’s tinkering with robots, building motors, or designing devices, ... they are eager to create something tangible during their time at MIT. Typically, an engineering ... students come to MIT motivated to actually creating something, but they might have to wait until junior or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-first-year-students-fundamental-principles-through-creationA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
concert with solar energy systems. Fortuitously, Mingda Li — the Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor ... of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... already thinking along similar lines. In fact, Li and nine collaborators (from MIT, Lawrence Berkeley ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysExplained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
separate into a 2D layered structure, or lose ordered structure entirely,” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor ... of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ... with the A being larger. MIT-Explained-Perovskites-1024.jpg Perovskites are widely seen as the likely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heights