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Tough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ... Now engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a technique that ... with biological functions,” Zhao says. The paper’s lead author is MIT graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ... Foundation. Monday, December 10, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor Gang Chen has built ... MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, are the ... MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... diseases, tuberculosis, and malaria, says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentInnovations in water accessibility
her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... point, Klise had focused on medical devices throughout her undergraduate experience at MIT. Concerned ... sought the advice of her advisor, Warren Seering, the Weber-Shaughness Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovations-water-accessibility3D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving
associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical ... Zewe | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Researchers, including Associate Professor Stephanie ... are rotating. MIT engineers have now developed a way to easily integrate sensors into these types of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-revolving-devices-can-sense-how-they-are-movingTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
Lab at MIT. Thursday, August 24, 2023 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Professors Loza ... cases, the wait time has to do with time-consuming steps in sample processing and analysis. Now, MIT ... bound to the beads. The MIT team found a faster way to confirm the presence of Dynabead-bound pathogens, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensAdhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants
for a drug, no need for a special polymer,” says Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor of mechanical ... Science Foundation. Tuesday, May 21, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Professor ... that kind of device failure, MIT engineers have found a simple and general way to eliminate fibrosis by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-coatings-can-prevent-scarring-around-medical-implantsNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
MIT co-authors include graduate student Fang Sheng, postdoc Basita Das, and professor of mechanical ... pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ... says MIT graduate student Eunice Aissi. “The whole system would allow us to give a computer a materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materialsEngineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight
a sidewinding rollercoaster — a flight pattern known as dynamic soaring. Albatross_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... Now engineers at MIT have developed a new model to simulate dynamic soaring, and have used it to ... Bousquet, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The region is extremely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-identify-key-albatross%E2%80%99-marathon-flightTurning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that ... Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A study by Assistant Professor Kailtyn Becker, inspired by Japanese ... turn one into the other,” says Gary Choi, a postdoc and instructor in applied mathematics at MIT. “But ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-circle-square-possible-kirigami-inspired-formulaHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou, professors Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Fang, Evelyn Wang, and Sang-Gook ... reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberMorphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceWeighing particles at the attogram scale
function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ... Integrative Cancer Research, is the paper’s senior author. Researchers from the labs of MIT professors and ... MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scale‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness
bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ... Lee, Patrick Ho, and Hermano Krebs from MIT and Mohammad Rastgaar Aagaah from Michigan Technological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffnessNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisBasic training
— the MakerLodge is a place where you can find an MIT tenured professor hanging out with students, ... A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ... build the makerspace itself this summer. MakerLodge_01_1024.jpg MIT has over 40 design/build/project ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basic-trainingGraphene holds up under high pressure
associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... possibilities for energy-efficient desalination at high salinities.” Karnik’s co-authors are lead author and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureUsing mechanical forces to improve wound healing
Women’s Hospital’s Wound Care Center and as a professor at Harvard Medical School. “You want to have high ... ’80s, Orgill earned his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and ... medical exposure. As a mechanical engineering student at MIT, it was only natural that Orgill gravitated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanical-forces-improve-wound-healingLiberty Ladd: Going above and beyond
particular — Ladd knew she wanted to study political science entering MIT. Also wanting a double major in ... participated in the Air Force ROTC throughout her time at MIT. Following graduation, Ladd will serve in the ... Hilton MIT News interviewed Ladd to learn more about her life as a student. Q: What are your communities ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/liberty-ladd-going-above-and-beyondCourse 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems
engineering fields. One of them is Professor Derek Rowell’s 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems, which ... a creeping idea for many, many years now,” says Professor Rowell. “It has broadened significantly and is ... don’t think you can teach electronics out of a book,” says Professor Rowell. “It’s important to burn ...
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