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Cell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... November 19, 2017 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Scott ... a particular drug. This can lead to months of treatment with a drug that isn’t working. Researchers at MIT have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsNew technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time-consuming ... the traditional approach. MIT-Assessing-PVs_1024.jpg This experimental setup was used by the team to ... a more accurate job of predicting their performance, explains Rachel Kurchin, an MIT graduate student and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cellsHairy tongues help bats drink up
Brun, who is now an assistant professor at Princeton University, carried out this current work at MIT ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ... tasty sap. MIT-Bat-Tongues_10124.jpg Animals have evolved all manner of adaptations to get the nutrients ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hairy-tongues-help-bats-drinkUnleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells
a paper by former MIT postdoc Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, MIT professors Tonio Buonassisi and Moungi Bawendi, ... Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal A team of researchers including Professor ... MIT-Perovskite-Efficiency-1024.jpg Solar cells made of perovskite have great promise, in part because they can easily be made on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-perovskites%E2%80%99-potential-solar-cellsNew microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation
MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang; visiting research scientist Ryuichi Iwata; professor of mechanical ... industrial processes. Now, for the first time, a new microscopy technique developed at MIT and elsewhere ... efficient surfaces for a variety of such processes. MIT-Nucleation-Distribution1024.jpg Many different ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-technique-reveals-details-droplet-nucleation“Colloidal gels,” ubiquitous in everyday products, divulge their secrets
and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Our results enable researchers to determine why weak ... Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for determining the structure and behavior of ... these colloidal gels in a crystallized, porous form known as zeolites. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ccolloidal-gels%E2%80%9D-ubiquitous-everyday-products-divulge-their-secretsNew 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste
Professor A. John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Waste removal Conventional vat ... waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ... solvents. MIT-Dissolvable-Supports-01-press_1024x768.jpg Researchers have developed a resin that turns into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-wasteNew kind of supercapacitor made without carbon
Materials, in a paper by Mircea Dincă, an MIT associate professor of chemistry; Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive ... MIT-Semicapacitor_1024.jpg To demonstrate the supercapacitor's ability to store power, the researchers modified an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-supercapacitor-made-without-carbonEngineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, ... MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from ... three-dimensional, interactive structures and devices. MIT-3D 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-%E2%80%9Cliving-tattoo%E2%80%9DSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
still letting in a good amount of light. Nicholas Fang, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... HKUST-MIT Consortium. Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor ... to grow as the global thermostat climbs. Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heatA droplet walks into an electric field …
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A team of researchers including Professor A. John Hart have found ... cause the droplet to burst apart, creating a fine, electrified mist. MIT ... droplet has always been an involved mathematical task. Now, MIT researchers have found that the conditions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplet-walks-electric-field-%E2%80%A6Search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters
| MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Researchers including Professor Thomas Peacock ... can confound and delay critical search-and-rescue operations. Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss ... sea where missing objects or people are likely to be. MIT-Rescue-Algorithm-01_1024.jpg A new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-and-rescue-algorithm-identifies-hidden-%E2%80%9Ctraps%E2%80%9D-ocean-waters-0How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
work by recent MIT graduates Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Henri-Louis Girard PhD ’20 with professor of ... MIT-Crystal-Droid-01-PRESS.jpg When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on ... processes and often requires expensive countermeasures such as water pretreatment. Now, findings from MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectInflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
MIT-neuroprosthetic-glove-1024.jpg Professor Xuanhe Zhao has developed an inflatable robotic hand. The low-cost soft prosthetic hand ... August 15, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Maker Horizontal Professor Xuanhe Zhao has ... that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A team led by Associate Professor Ellen ... interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsStretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly ... published its results online in the journal Advanced Materials. mit-stretchy-optics-1024.jpg Zhao has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchy-optical-fibers-implanting-bodyNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
many applications, from robotics to components in the automobile and aviation industries. Now, MIT ... key ingredient, cheap and ubiquitous, is ordinary nylon fiber. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg This ... Materials by Seyed Mirvakili, a doctoral candidate, and Ian Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... | MIT News Office Culture Horizontal Using a high-speed camera, Associate Professor Alexandra Techet ... MIT-Archer-Fish-1024.jpg In addition to spit-shooting, an archer fish, pictured here, can launch itself from a near ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchExotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
Nelson, the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at MIT. “There’s good reason to believe that second ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ... behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-leadHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
such batteries, and Varanasi worked with MIT professors Gareth McKinley and Yet-Ming Chiang on ... An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... cosmetics, and other viscous liquids slide out of their containers, as devised by Kripa Varanasi, a professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slide