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New approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
findings are reported today in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ... land instead of bouncing off. MIT-Mesh-Droplets-1024.jpg Photos illustrate how the tiny droplets ... Varanasi Research Group Now, a team of MIT researchers has found a way to balance those properties and get ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-makes-sprayed-droplets-hit-and-stick-their-targetsSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT ... -Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg An MIT study shows that electrical vehicle batteries could have a useful and profitable second life ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteriesJoystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely
Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Xuanhe Zhao have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons ... MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat ... save the patient’s life and preserve their brain function. MIT-Robo-Stroke-01-1024.jpg With a modified ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/joystick-operated-robot-could-help-surgeons-treat-stroke-remotelyEngineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves
learning along with data from wave tank experiments, MIT engineers led by Professor Themis Sapsis and Dr. ... predict. Now, MIT engineers have found a new way to model how waves break. The team used machine learning ... says study author Themis Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-use-artificial-intelligence-capture-complexity-breaking-wavesEngineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs
reported in the journals,” says Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We show ... | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Jeehwan Kim and a team of engineers have developed ... a “screen door effect” such that users perceive stripes in the space between pixels. Now, MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-invent-vertical-full-color-microscopic-ledsOutside-the-Box Thinker
it himself, of course. At age 13, Nathan Spielberg — now an MIT senior — began building his first ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... MIT, he has held onto this tenet, but turned his attention to a new means of production: 3-D printing. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
MIT-Smarter-Streetlights_1024.jpg “The way we measure street lighting is still very primitive,” says Sumeet Kumar PhD ’14. Kumar and ... generate its street views. Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT There must be a better way, a team of ... researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
21, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Assistant Professor ... engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... The research was led by Jeehwan Kim, the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwarePaper-folding art inspires better bandages
the adhesive will peel away from the skin with just a few bends of the affected joint. Now MIT ... kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesStudy finds potential in brackish groundwater desalination
groundwater, less than 1 percent currently comes from brackish groundwater. MIT ... -Brackish-Groundwater-1024.jpg Based on measurements taken at more than 100,000 wells around the country, the MIT researchers ... around the country, appears in the journal Water Research, in a paper by Yvana Ahdab SM ’17, an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-potential-brackish-groundwater-desalinationEngineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ... Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ... or dyes. MIT-Structural-Color-02-1024.jpg Seen from above, transparent droplets in a Petri dish, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-make-clear-droplets-produce-iridescent-colorsCell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade
Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have tracked the evolution of individual cells within an initially ... “invasive tips” that eventually broke away to spread elsewhere. MIT-Tumor-Invasion-1024.jpg A tumor’s ... “You can think of the tumor like a sponge,” says Ming Guo, assistant professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-stiffness-may-indicate-whether-tumors-will-invadeNew gels could help the medicine go down
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Researchers including Assistant Professor ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-downSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
scratch for another chance at a prize. MIT_Reflex-Grip-02-PRESS.jpg The research team, from left to right: ... Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ... SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesTechnique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental state
a large scale, especially with single-cell resolution, but a team of MIT researchers has now found a way ... Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and ... a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. MIT-CellDensity-01-press_1024x768.jpg The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-rapidly-measures-cells%E2%80%99-density-reflecting-health-and-developmental-stateRobotics in the 21st Century
actuators, in collaboration with Professor Jeff Lang in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ... Building Robots for the People The image that comes to mind when you hear Professor John Leonard ... fears? Faculty in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering believe there is more to it than that. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotics-21st-centuryWhales Dine with Their Own Kind
Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with their students, are co-authors of ... predators to the shallow banks, including many species of whales. Now researchers from MIT, Northeastern ... team’s results are published today in the journal Nature. MIT-Predator-Prey_1024.jpg Using acoustic data, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindOur hairy insides
currents of the fluids they’re immersed in. MIT-Hair-Beds_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT can predict how beds of ... flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ... the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate dean of the School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-hairy-insidesStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
MIT-Transpararent-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its ... Kong and Kuan Qiao Now MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting ... Development Associate Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materialsGiving robots a faster grasp
combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... this preplanning process down to less than a second. MIT-Robot-Gripper_1024.jpg A new algorithm speeds ... Image courtesy of the researchers Alberto Rodriguez, associate professor of mechanical engineering at ...
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