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A graphene roll-out
first author Piran Kidambi, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at Vanderbilt ... who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outEngineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces
printed from solid, relatively inflexible material. MIT-Printed-Meshes-02-1024.jpg 3-D meshes are designed ... to be lightweight and conformable, similar to fabric and textiles. Image: M. Scott Brauer Now MIT ... Sebastian Pattinson, who conducted the research as a postdoc at MIT. Pattinson, now on the faculty at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-flexible-mesh-ankle-and-knee-braces3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... a fever.” Fang’s coauthors include former MIT-SUTD research fellow Qi “Kevin” Ge, now an assistant professor ... at SUTD; former MIT research associate Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesNew test rapidly diagnoses Zika
Zika virus from related viruses. Lee Gehrke, the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Professor in MIT ... MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 ... of the Zika virus that can produce false positives on many Zika tests. MIT-ZikaTest_1024.jpg “It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zika“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
are designed to interact with the human immune system. David Trumper, an MIT professor of mechanical ... MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect ... MIT-Organs-Chip-01-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissue from up to 10 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationStamp-sized graphene sheets riddled with holes could be boon for molecular separation
Kidambi’s MIT co-authors are Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, ... MIT engineers have found a way to directly “pinprick” microscopic holes into graphene as the ... molecules out of solutions vastly more efficient. MIT-Big-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stamp-sized-graphene-sheets-riddled-holes-could-be-boon-molecular-separationSystem provides cooling with no electricity
a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ... magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do exactly that. The device, ... below the ambient air temperature. MIT-Aerogel-Cooling-03-1024.jpg In field tests, the performance of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityA material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
Nature Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Bilge Yildiz and Gang Chen, recent graduates Qiyang Lu PhD ... researchers at MIT including Professor Gang Chen have designed a long-sought device, which they refer to as an ... MIT-Thermal-Conductivity-1024.jpg Researchers found that strontium cobalt oxide (SCO) naturally occurs in an atomic configuration ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-willUsing “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases
MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships ... human gut plays an important role under these inflammatory conditions. MIT-Gut-Liver-1024.jpg MIT ... School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, a professor of biological engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-%E2%80%9Corgans-chip%E2%80%9D-model-complicated-diseasesJennifer Rumsey and John Wall
from Cummins just this past October – the MIT educational counselor for local high school students. ... ‘72, his new roommate and a master’s student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, ... simultaneously from MechE’s Honors Program, then joined the Sloan Automotive Lab under Professor John Heywood for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jennifer-rumsey-and-john-wallJulien Barber
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... “My upbringing fostered the desire to tackle big problems that have a global impact," says MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/julien-barberIllustrating Covid-19 hygiene education
a graduate student studying mechanical engineering at MIT. For her master’s thesis, she worked on household ... skill,” says Maria Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and Florentine’s graduate advisor. ... artwork is something that Florentine utilized in her role at FIRST Robotics after graduating from MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illustrating-covid-19-hygiene-educationBianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries
changing ocean chemistry tied to human activities. Bianca1024.jpg Working with the MIT Sea Grant College ... Program, which applies MIT research and engineering to ocean-related challenges, Champenois is developing ... ’11, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, Champenois works on new frameworks for modeling ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bianca-champenois-sm-%E2%80%9922-helps-model-future-coastal-industriesExperiments reveal the physics of evaporation
been analyzed in detail at a molecular level, in a new analysis by MIT postdoc Zhengmao Lu, professor ... a liquid boils away from a hot surface. MIT-Evaporation-Physics-01_1024.jpg Evaporation hasn’t been studied ... in detail at a molecular level, until now. New MIT research has revealed details of the process. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
light-sensitive material developed by MIT researchers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso could ... done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ... requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightPhysicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
says Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who directed the project. ... very much in motion. MIT-Kilogram-Cooling-1024.jpg MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to ... optics technicians examining one of LIGO’s mirrors. Image Courtesy of Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab In the last ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateToy-making offers seriously fun introduction to engineering
as a student in 2.00b, Toy Product Design, an introductory class offered by MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering. “When it comes to learning, motivation is key,” explains David Wallace, professor of ... but very few projects are about something students are already so familiar with.” Ramos works in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toy-making-offers-seriously-fun-introduction-engineering-0Student Profile: Julia Sokol, PhD Candidate
need greater agricultural productivity,” says Sokol who works on a drip irrigation project at MIT ... a stronger technical foundation, she applied to MIT for graduate school. During her master’s program, Sokol ... took the course 2.76, Global Engineering, which was taught by associate professor and principal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-profile-julia-sokol-phd-candidateChanneling creativity through art and engineering
’22, who recently graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. Raised in Lowell, ... do both,” she says. Upon enrolling in MIT, Satterfield set out to study electrical engineering at ... MIT. But she quickly found herself gravitating more toward mechanical engineering. For her, making ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/channeling-creativity-through-art-and-engineeringNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO ...
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