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MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We’re trying to achieve ... and MIT postdoc; Harry Tuller, MIT professor of materials science and engineering; Xiao-Yu Wu of the ... MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelThe breadth of MechE
development assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering. Across MechE, faculty and staff are engaging in ... those things, but we go so far beyond that,” says Anette (Peko) Hosoi, Pappalardo Professor of ... Mechanical Engineering. MIT Sports Lab researchers test athletes’ visual and vestibular systems using a VR ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breadth-mecheMIT engineers develop a soft, printable, metal-free electrode
inflammation that in turn can degrade an implant’s performance. Now, MIT engineers have developed a metal-free, ... biological tissue. MIT_Hydro-Electrode-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers developed a metal-free, Jell-O-like ... other organs in the body,” adds Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-soft-printable-metal-free-electrodeThere’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus
Professor of Engineering at MIT, and also a composer of experimental music. “This is the beginning of ... Professor Markus Buehler composed it, and a South Korean orchestra performed it; it’s the latest ... SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-symphony-antibody-protein-body-makes-neutralize-coronavirusMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... years ago, Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, began to ... more than half of their crops. Kripa Varanasi, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, is working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeMeet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia
engineering projects, with Maria Yang, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT ... Since 2012, a handful of Saudi Arabia’s top scientists and engineers have arrived on MIT’s campus ... research at MIT. Each fellow is paired with an MIT faculty for a research project and exposed to a number ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-women-shaping-science-and-engineering-saudi-arabiaThe environmental toll of disposable masks
a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University. Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Anne Trafton | MIT ... That toll could be dramatically cut by adopting reusable masks, according to a new study from MIT that ... greatest cost savings, but also significant reduction in waste,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masksMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... pigs. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT ... Monday, January 31, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professors Giovanni ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowFeatured Article: Going clean
with a single alternative,” adds Reshma Rao PhD '19, a postdoctoral associate in MIT ... many researchers across MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering that have entered the race to ... Philip J. Solondz Professor of Engineering, is hoping to change that. “My group has been looking at new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-article-going-cleanOn the cutting edge
a passion for engineering, the young Denton, Texas, native made it a goal to study engineering at MIT. In ... Winter Olympics, for short-track speedskating. MIT-Student-Malone-1024.jpg “Before I ever wanted to be ... Malone says. The MIT senior studies mechanical engineering and hopes to draw from both his education and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cutting-edgeAn Eye for Design
freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which people formulate ideas ... products’ success. MIT-maria-yang 1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark “People’s strategies are so fascinating,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designResearchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
Lining Yao as part of MIT’s Tangible Media group, led by Hiroshi Ishii, the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor ... A team of MIT researchers has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open ... are published today in Science Advances. MIT-Sweat-Wearables-01-1024.jpg This breathable workout suit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-moisture-responsive-workout-suitEngineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor
Alexander I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering; and Gang Chen, head of MIT’s Department of ... coverings trap the heat that the devices produce. Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a polymer ... 10 times as much heat as most commercially used polymers. MIT-Polymer-Conductor.JPG Engineers at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-plastic-insulator-heat-conductorInstrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water
transporting them to distant laboratories for analysis. To simplify the monitoring process, MIT researchers ... easily dropped in the mail and shipped to a laboratory for further analysis. MIT ... -Dry-Testing-01-1024.jpg MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/instrument-may-enable-mail-testing-detect-heavy-metals-waterHoming in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells
Tiihonen The findings appear in the journal Matter, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shijing Sun, MIT professors ... used for virtually all commercial solar panels. Now, an international interdisciplinary team led by MIT ... MIT-Better-Perovskite-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a new way to test long-lasting perovskite formulations that could be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/homing-longer-lasting-perovskite-solar-cellsEngineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity
MIT-Obesity-Treatment-01-PRESS_0.gif MIT engineers have now come up with a new way to take advantage of that phenomenon, using an ... control their appetite, it could be taken before each meal,” says Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20, a former MIT ... graduate student and postdoc who is now an assistant professor of bioengineering at Harvard University. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-might-help-treat-obesity3-D Printing 101
As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with ... Office Culture Education Maker ajhart@mit.edu Horizontal Professor John Hart teaches students of new ... the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor in Contemporary Technology and Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-101New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. MIT-Electric-Therapy_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ... Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology The device, about the size of a U.S. dollar coin, is designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyA new way to provide cooling without power
MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... metal suspended above the device blocks the sun’s direct rays. MIT-Radiative-Cooling_1024.jpg Two ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerTechnique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials
Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; Thibaut Divoux of ... yank on it, the Silly Putty will snap like a brittle, solid bar. MIT-Gel-Chirps-01_1024.jpg High ... MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-inspired-dolphin-chirps-could-improve-tests-soft-materials