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Getting a charge out of water droplets

Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ... devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ... condenses from warm, humid air on the outside of a cold glass. Chuanhua Duan, an assistant professor of ...

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Excitons observed in action for the first time

exciton movement within materials has never been directly observed. Now scientists at MIT and the City ... journal Nature Communications, in a paper co-authored by MIT postdocs Gleb Akselrod and Parag Deotare, ... professors Vladimir Bulovic and Marc Baldo, and four others. “This is the first direct observation of exciton ...

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Illuminating a complex disease

Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... the Center for Gynepathology Research at MIT to study endometriosis and similar diseases. One of the ... Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ...

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Watching tumors burst through a blood vessel

cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ... that could prevent it,” says Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biology and ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ...

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Autonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines

Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ... (HAUV), originally developed as part of MIT’s Sea Grant program. The technology has since been ... commercialized by spinoff Bluefin Robotics Corp., and the MIT engineers have continued to work to improve its ...

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Learning to Solve

experience. Taking a deep dive into a single problem, participants work under the supervision of an MIT ... Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and EECS department head. “It is amazing ... Peraire, AeroAstro department head and the H.N. Slater Professor Aeronautics and Astronautics. “When we ...

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Rogue Wave Ahead

developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Themis Sapsis, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ...

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3-D printing with cellulose

paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... materials. “Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian ... The paper is co-authored by associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart, the Mitsui ...

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Students launch products that help users harness their superpowers

presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ... prototypes.  The 2.009 final presentation has become a seminal event each year at MIT. For the past 22 years, ... professor of mechanical engineering David Wallace has been at the helm of the class, which serves as ...

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Energy storage from a chemistry perspective

Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... | MIT Startup Exchange Collaboration Horizontal PolyJoule, a startup co-founded by Professor Ian Hunter, ... storage from a chemistry perspective. Co-founders Ian Hunter of MIT's Department of Mechanical ...

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A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water

Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ... Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... Professor Yuriy Román-Leshkov, and nine others. Oxygen evolution reactions are one of the reactions common ...

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Unlocking new science with devices that control electric power

engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... completing his PhD, Mirvakili joined Institute Professor Bob Langer’s lab as a postdoc, where he worked ...

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Designing a revolution

a political third way,” says Eden Medina, an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Society, Technology, and ... presidential palace, beginning last month. Medina is co-curating the exhibition with Professor Hugo Palmarola ... and Professor Pedro Ignacio Alonso of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The exhibit will ...

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More than a meal

With closed restaurants and collapsed traditional markets, MIT Sea Grant applied Covid-19 Rapid ... uncertainty. Seeking solutions, MIT Sea Grant first connected with the New England Fisheries Management ... unique strength in the MIT Sea Grant Program is our Advisory Group that has established and maintains ...

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Communicating Engineering Research at MERE Showcase

impressed by the breadth of research being done by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering,” says one ... research in the department and network with alumni, faculty, students, and staff.  2015-MERE 1024.jpg MIT ... finest,” says Jerry Wang, a graduate student working in Professor Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou’s Nanoscale ...

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School of Engineering first quarter 2023 awards

Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of ... scientists working in our academic departments, labs, and centers. Anuradha Agarwal of the MIT Microphotonics Center ... Sunday, April 30, 2023 School of Engineering Horizontal Professors Harry Asada and George Barbastathis are ...

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School of Engineering fourth quarter 2023 awards

Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of ... Medical Engineering and Science received the 2023 MIT Prize for Open Data on Oct. 24.   Jack Hare in the ... Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring on Oct. 13.   Robert Langer, Institute Professor in the ...

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Novel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surface

associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “There’s a lot of controversy, and there’s no easy way ... Karnik and his colleagues — Jongho Lee, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Tahar ... Laoui, a professor at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia — to ...

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Breakthrough in boiling

associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, has made a significant breakthrough in ... describes its work in the March 11 issue of  Applied Physics Letters. Baglietto, who arrived at MIT in 2011, ... Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Jacopo Buongiorno, the TEPCO Professor and ...

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Navigating beneath the Arctic ice

global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below the ice cover. A team of MIT engineers ... and naval officers led by Henrik Schmidt, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, is trying to ... Sensing Systems (LAMSS) including Daniel Goodwin and Bradli Howard, graduate students in the MIT ...

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