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Engineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University; MIT graduate student Sanghyun Park; ... MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by ... MIT_Injectable-Microcrystals 1024.png MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-better-way-deliver-long-lasting-drugsMIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape
requires building around 300 terawatt-hours of storage, according to Asegun Henry, a professor in the MIT ... Yogesh Surendranath, Donner Professor of Science in the MIT Department of Chemistry. Materials Science ... that,” said Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Climate and Energy in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-conference-spotlights-research-priorities-amidst-changing-energy“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... L. Chandler | MIT News Office orange kripa@mit.edu Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi has developed ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... a fundamental level by researchers at MIT. The underlying process is the same in all of these cases: Layers of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingPrintable electronics
professor of chemical engineering and MIT’s associate provost. A stamp from tiny pen quills There have been ... MIT-Printed-Electronics-1-1024.jpg MIT researchers have fabricated a stamp made from forests of carbon nanotubes that is able to ... Engineers at MIT have invented a fast, precise printing process that may make such electronic surfaces an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-electronicsUsing light to propel water
Communications, was developed by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, School of ... A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... separate water from oil at a drilling rig, the researchers say. MIT-pushingwater-1-1024.jpg A new system ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-light-propel-waterResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
Environmental Science, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Paula Hammond, the ... to explain them. MIT-Lithium-i-1024.jpg This series of photographs shows the chemical reaction that ... Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Now, a team at MIT has carried out detailed tests that seem to resolve the questions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Roger Kamm has ... States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
MIT-Polymer-1.jpg A scanning transmission electron micrograph (STEM) of the polymer material shows its division into ... Photo by: Asli Ugur Now researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have explained how ... the difficulty in explaining how they work, says Asli Ugur, an MIT postdoc and lead author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersFor Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up
professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “Our initial idea was to make nanoscrolls for molecular ... severely limit graphene’s practical uses. Seeking an alternative, a team from MIT and Harvard University is ... a fraction of the cost, the researchers say. MIT-Nanoscrolls-1024.jpg An electron microscopy image shows many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stronger-lighter-cheaper-materials-scrollTissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
MIT-Blood-Brain-Barrier-1024.jpg The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the ... Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tissue-model-reveals-role-blood-brain-barrier-alzheimer%E2%80%99sSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ... News correspondent Horizontal MIT researchers led by Professor Kripa Varanasi have developed a simple, ... MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsToward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... mind, MIT researchers developed “ FlexBoard,” a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of ... author Michael Wessely, a recent postdoc at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toward-more-flexible-and-rapid-prototyping-electronic-devicesTemperature difference propels droplets
described this week in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ... mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
demonstrated before,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of ... pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ... described this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactEngineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
include first author and former MIT postdoc Yeongin Kim, who is now an assistant professor at the ... Now MIT engineers have devised a new kind of wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without ... mechanically vibrate in response to an electrical impulse. MIT-Chip-Free-Sensor-1024.jpg The device senses and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-fabricate-chip-free-wireless-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9DDomitilla Del Vecchio Bridges Math, Engineering, and Biology
research since she came to MIT as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2010. Attracted by ... Mechanical engineering professor carries out pioneering work in the creation of biological ... home. MIT-DelVecchio-1024.jpg Photo: M. Scott Brauer “He had a lab at our place that was full of all ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/domitilla-del-vecchio-bridges-math-engineering-and-biologyA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
MIT-Dew-Omniphobicity-1024.jpg This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers. ... with a specially designed shape. Images by Kyle Wilke Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to ... a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ... MIT-Robo-Plant-01-1024.jpg The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on ... inventory, among other tasks. “Think about changing the oil in your car,” says Harry Asada, professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantHow to make hydrogels more injectable
materials, which are made from microscale building blocks akin to squishy LEGOs, MIT and Harvard University ... a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ...
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