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Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
launched another startup company, in partnership with MIT professor of chemical engineering and Associate ... about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... laboratory to consumer and industrial markets. MIT-Varanasi-1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark LiquiGlide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesMicrofluidics from LEGO bricks
MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of ... MIT-LEGO-Lab-02-1024.jpg LEGO bricks, milled with tiny fluidic channels. Image: Felice Frankel Now the MIT team, looking ... and modularity in everyday manufactured objects,” says Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-lego-bricksStudy finds cells take out the trash before they divide
News Office Horizontal MIT researchers, including Professor Scott Manalis, have discovered that before ... MIT researchers have discovered that before cells start to divide, they do a little cleanup, ... functional contents,” says Teemu Miettinen, an MIT research scientist and the lead author of the new study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cells-take-out-trash-they-divideBio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Xuanhe Zhao have designed a strong, biocompatible glue that can ... Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ... translate this fundamental knowledge into real products that can save lives,” says Xuanhe Zhao, a professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quicklySolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ... . Monday, October 25, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Associate Professor Ming ... MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... cognitive functions. MIT researchers have now put forth a new hypothesis for how astrocytes might contribute ... MIT-AstroCyteMemory-01-press_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacityHot New Solar Cell
Nature Energy, in a paper by MIT doctoral student David Bierman, Professors Evelyn Wang and Marin ... MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar ... electricity. MIT-Solar-Thermal_1024.jpg While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellKen Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor Ken Kamrin's models of granular flow shed light on ... avalanches and landslides. At MIT, Kamrin is happiest when surrounded by creativity and noise. “I come from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ken-kamrin-seeks-fundamental-behaviors-sandUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ... A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsWhat will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?
impacts compare to traditional land-based mining — are currently unknown. Now oceanographers at MIT, the ... speculation about [deep-sea-mining’s] environmental impact,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical ... engineering at MIT. “Our study is the first of its kind on these midwater plumes, and can be a major ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-will-happen-sediment-plumes-associated-deep-sea-miningPassive cooling system could benefit off-grid locations
Reports Physical Science, in a paper by MIT postdoc Zhengmao Lu, Arny Leroy PhD ’21, professors Jeffrey ... or no reliable electric power. Now, an innovative system developed at MIT offers a way to use passive ... supported by MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab. MIT-EfficientCooling-01-press_0.jpg Two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/passive-cooling-system-could-benefit-grid-locationsNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
Horizontal Researchers at MIT, including Associate Professor Betar Gallant, Dr. Haining Gao, and grad student ... like pacemakers. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to improve the energy density of these ... are reported today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesMoving water and earth
these very scary degrees of freedom,” says Kamrin, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Shape ... flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ... too unwieldy: How do you quantify a pebble’s contours? The MIT researchers found that instead of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
be able to make these batteries anywhere at low cost,” says Alsym co-founder and MIT Professor Kripa ... and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons. MIT ... a telecommunications company with serial entrepreneurs and longtime members of the MIT community Ray Stata ’57, SM ’58 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futurePower Efficiency in the Violin
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... fluid dynamicists at MIT, along with violinmakers at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, have ... back plate, they found, would boost a violin’s sound. A1-MIT-Violin-Design.jpg The researchers found ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ... a limpet’s shell can flash brilliantly even in murky water. MIT-Shell-Design-02.jpg Scientists at MIT and ... its blue-striped appearance./ Courtesy of the researchers Now scientists at MIT and Harvard University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
assistant professor and a research affiliate in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, says the team’s results ... Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... experiments — including one in which they simply placed the solar sponge on the roof of MIT’s Building 3 — the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightNew scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ... engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... MIT-Driving-Sand-1.JPG Engineers at MIT have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-scaling-law-predicts-how-wheels-drive-over-sandNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... Chu | MIT News Office Culture Education Horizontal Associate Professor A. John Hart's new 3D ... MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ...
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