but also light much as window blinds tilt to filter the sun. Researchers say the work could lead to waterproofing and anti-glare applications such as smart windows for buildings and cars.
Zhu chose to work with materials that move in response to a magnetic field. Others have designed such magnetically actuated materials by infusing polymers with magnetic particles.
In ongoing work, the researchers have begun trying to determine material and structural properties of objects from their visible response to short bursts of sound.
The work might enable new kinds of biomedical or microfluidic devices or solar panels that could automatically clean themselves of dust and grit.
Neelesh Patankar a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was involved not in this work says this research introduces a new class of approach for droplet-based microfluidic platforms
He adds This work cleverly combines low-hysteresis droplet movement with low-magnetic-field-driven droplet propulsion to achieve impressive capabilities.
The work was supported by the MIT-KFUPM Center for Clean water and Clean energy y
#Light pulses control graphene s electrical behavior Graphene, an ultrathin form of carbon with exceptional electrical optical and mechanical properties, has become a focus of research on a variety of potential uses.
The researchers say the work could aid the development of new light detectors with ultrafast response times and high sensitivity across a wide range of light frequencies from the infrared to ultraviolet.
"The work is interesting because it presents a systematic study of the doping dependence of the low energy dynamics
The work received support from the U s. Department of energy and the National Science Foundation n
#Vision-correcting displays Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new display technology that automatically corrects for vision defects no glasses (or contact lenses) required.
MIT researchers explain how their vision-correcting display technology works. The key thing is they seem to have cracked the contrast problem Dainty adds.
In 2006 el Kaliouby came to the Media Lab to work with Picard to expand
Already Affectiva has conducted pilot work for online learning where it captured data on facial engagement to predict learning outcomes.
Stanley s commitment to support the work of the Broad Institute will consist of annual gifts during his lifetime followed by a bequest with a total current value exceeding $650 million.
Taking prior gifts into account Stanley s philanthropy in support of the Broad Institute s work totals more than $825 million.
The structure works much like a sponge that, when placed in water on a hot,
The device worn around one s wrist works essentially like two extra fingers adjacent to the pinky and thumb.
As a user works with the robot it could learn to adapt to match his
Chuanhua Duan an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in this research says This work provides a new approach for energy harvesting
#These work well but only over very short distances so they re nearly touching Soljacic says.
That works well when the oil and water are already large globs of stuff already partly separated Varanasi says.
The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT Pedro Reis and former MIT postdocs Denis Terwagne (now at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium) and Miha
Terwagne says that making the morphable surfaces for lab testing required a great deal of trial-and-error work that ultimately yielded a simple and efficient fabrication process. his beautiful simplicity to achieve a complex functionality is used often by nature,
and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this work,
. When two cores need to communicate, theye granted exclusive access to the bus. But that approach won work as the core count mounts:
so the snoopy protocol still works. The hierarchy is shuffled during every interval, however, to ensure that in the long run,
a Phd student in mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. ee proved that the concept works.
The company has code libraries for each type of equipment it works with such as air handlers, chillers,
The new work, he says, rovides a somewhat unexpected answer to this conundrum. The researchersapproach, he says,
The work was funded partly by the U s. Department of energy through the Center for Excitonics at MIT
While many studies have identified drugs that work well together, a 2012 paper from Yaffe lab was the first to show that the timing of drug administration can dramatically influence the outcome.
the wiresconnections get switched around so that the second drug works in a much more effective way.
The work was funded by the National institutes of health, the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, the Koch Institute Frontier Research Program supported by the Kathy and Curt Marble Fund for Cancer Research,
This work was performed in the Center for Excitonics, an Energy Frontier Research center funded by the U s. Department of energy.
Keeping every tenth sensor won t work: It s the regularity of the distances between sensors that leads to aliasing.
In the near term, the work could lead to educational tools that identify errors in studentsreasoning
the new work is in the field of emantic parsing, or translating natural language into a formal language such as arithmetic or formal logic.
He and his colleagues plan to build on this work by expanding their studies to other parts of the brain,
Such a test could also be used to predict patientsresponse to chemotherapy drugs, which often work by damaging cancer cellsdna,
It s a mark of the groundbreaking work Herr has done at the MIT Media Lab over the past two decades.
But ultimately the work of both Biom and Herr s group at MIT he says aims to help revolutionize the idea of personal bionics blurring the lines between electromechanics and the human body.
David Lidzey a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Sheffield who was involved not in this work calls the research a really impressive demonstration of a direct measurement of the diffusion of triplet excitons and their eventual trapping.
The work was supported by the U s. Department of energy and by the National Science Foundation and used facilities of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center r
The new work is a follow-up to research by Grossman and his team three years ago,
based on computer analysis. But translating that theoretical work into a practical material proved daunting: In order to reach the desired energy density the amount of energy that can be stored in a given weight
The interactions between azobenzene molecules on neighboring CNTS make the material work, Kucharski says. While previous modeling showed that the packing of azobenzenes on the same CNT would provide only a 30 percent increase in energy storage,
an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of North carolina who was involved not in this work. He adds that the resulting increase in energy storage density s surprising and remarkable. his result provides additional motivation for researchers to design more
The work was supported by BP though the MIT Energy Initiative and the U s. Department of energy Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy n
a professor of biologically inspired engineering at Harvard university who was involved not in the research. here are several striking features of this work,
Gita Gopinath, an economics professor at Harvard university, calls the work terrific paperthat adds new information to the field. hat we did not know,
and Neiman take the same view in the paper. uture work should focus on understanding what determines when prices behave like those documented here
This work shows that CRISPR can be used successfully in adults and also identifies several of the challenges that will need to be addressed moving forward to the development of human therapies says Charles Gersbach an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.
Nevertheless this work is an exciting first step to using modern gene-editing tools to correct the devastating genetic diseases for
The work is described in a paper appearing this week in the journal Science, written by MIT graduate student Yichen Shen, professor of physics Marin Soljacic,
Previous work had demonstrated ways of selectively reflecting light except for one precise angle, but those approaches were limited to a narrow range of colors of light.
But for this approach to work it is essential to limit the heat and light lost to reflections,
The work was supported in part by the Army Research Office, through MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,
In future work, they hope to examine larger sets of neurons in hopes of finding some of these other neuron types.
I think this is really fantastic work that represents a great integration of synthetic biology and materials engineering says Lingchong You an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.
wait for the phages to do their work, and run the sample through a machine that detects any light emitted.
where a 15-person team now works on research and development and small-scale manufacturing. After leading the startup through technological implementation,
That works really really well as long as the world is pretty predictable. If you re in a world that is not which to be honest is everywhere outside a factory situation then you start to lose some of your advantage.
At the end of the day it s about making the economics work to compete against the price of fuel Hynes says adding We re able to do a lot with a little.
The diagnostic which works much like a pregnancy test could reveal within minutes based on a urine sample
The new work could have implications for the study of marine ecosystems and for our understanding of how infections take hold in medical devices.
The program links MIT teachers and mentors to Tibetan community programs through Skype supplemented by regular travel by Dalai lama Center staff alumni and students who among other work teach weeklong leadership
and spread information about those that work well so that others can benefit from the lessons learned.
because they have spent so much money on developing drugs that don work. They end up focusing somewhere else.
whether a drug works a reduction of 70 percent that Krebs says would translate to a similar reduction in time and cost.
To determine whether a drug works, the FDA will often look to a study effect size.
However, it works too slowly to keep up with the brain millisecond-by-millisecond dynamics. Another imaging technique, known as magnetoencephalography (MEG), uses an array of hundreds of sensors encircling the head to measure magnetic fields produced by neuronal activity in the brain.
but Cichy et al. come closer to characterizing the dynamic emergence of representational geometries across stages of processing in humans than any previous work.
The MIT researchers are now using representational similarity analysis to study the accuracy of computer models of vision by comparing brain scan data with the modelspredictions of how vision works.
who won the 2007 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work (providing $30, 000 that further funded APA prototyping).
such as legal and financial work, and doing business with the government. isa gave us a lot of those nuts
as well as for first responders. here a broad spectrum of users people who use rope access as part of their work for
Indeed, prior work by Finkelstein, Baicker, and others on Oregon lottery applicants showed that people who obtain Medicaid increase their use of primary and preventive care.
which makes empirical work all the more important. Other scholars in the field say the study opens the way for further scrutiny of emergency room use.
who was involved not in this work, says this study valuates a number of examples of policies that contribute to a portfolio effort of reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
and it works much more reliably than lidar in bright sunlight when ambient light can yield misleading readings.
and techniques is really unique in the work going on at MIT right now. What more, the basic technology needed for the team approach is very similar to that already being shipped in devices such as the new version of Kinect,
Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this work,
In addition to nuclear safety systems, this work has important implications for systems such as steam generators, industrial boilers, fire suppression,
The work builds on previous research showing that when a particle is confined in a narrow channel,
Why is this work important? A: It is agreed generally that present-day science and exploration missions to deep space are constrained by the amount of data they can get back to Earth.
The work pens up a new avenue for optical manipulation of quantum states of matter,
says, he importance of this work is difficult to overestimate. He says it pens new avenues not only for optical control of topological states,
Typically during the first few sessions, the robot does most of the work moving the patient ankle back and forth and side to side, loosening up the muscles, ind of like a massage,
Many other robotic therapies are designed to do most of the work for the patient in an attempt to train the muscles to walk.
hich are highly relevant to many ankle injuries including the common ankle sprain. n intriguing extension of this work is that it may be possible to train individuals to activate their ankle musculature in a way that helps reduce the chance of injury,
For now, the team will continue its work in rehabilitation, using the Anklebot to train patients to walk
In prior work Najim Dehak a research scientist in the Spoken language Systems Group and one of the new paper s co-authors had demonstrated a technique for reducing the number of variables required to describe the acoustic signature of a particular speaker
To get a sense of how the technique works imagine a graph that plotted say hours worked by an hourly worker against money earned.
I think that was the significant contribution of Stephen s work k
#Schizophrenia linked to abnormal brain waves Schizophrenia patients usually suffer from a breakdown of organized thought often accompanied by delusions or hallucinations.
You never expect that to work. So the compiler will just remove that. It pointless to execute it anyway,
while the wraparound check works fine with unsigned integers integers that are always positive it is,
The work was funded by the BP-MIT Materials and Corrosion Center l
#Better robot vision Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision.
In ongoing work Glover is using Bingham distributions to analyze the orientation of pingpong balls in flight as part of a broader project to teach robots to play pingpong.
Because Bingham distributions are so central to his work Glover has developed also a suite of software tools that greatly speed up calculations involving them.
In ongoing work, the MIT researchers are building an army of 100 cubes, each of which can move in any direction,
which works by sending a laser beam through a sample, then splitting the beam into two.
The best drug now available, hydroxyurea, works for only about two-thirds of patients. The research team also includes the paper lead author, E (Sarah) Du,
In addition to Anikeeva and Fink, the work was carried out by Andres Canales, Xiaoting Jia, Ulrich Froriep, Ryan Koppes, Christina Tringides, Jennifer Selvidge, Chi Lu, Chong Hou,
The work was supported by the National Science Foundation the Center for Materials science and engineering, the Center for Sensorimotor Neural engineering, the Mcgovern Institute for Brain Research, the U s army Research Office through the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,
and Craig P. Wildes, all members of the Picower Institute, also contributed to this work a
where the sheer numbers of our sales and deep understanding of customer needs will incentivize manufacturers to collaborate with us to make truly transformative products for the people we work with,
But the startup also works with the U s. Department of defense to help identify energy-wasting buildings on their bases.
The tissue glue works through a system where molecules in the adhesive serve as eysthat interact with ockschemical structures called amines found in abundance in structural tissue known as collagen.
rather than developing biomaterials that try to work for all conditions. Doctors have begun using this kind of personalized approach
The work is authored co by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas Fang and graduate student Anshuman Kumar
because the material naturally works at near-infrared wavelengths, this could enable new avenues for infrared spectroscopy,
says, his work represents significant progress on understanding tunable interactions of light in graphene-hbn.
The work is retty criticalfor providing the understanding needed to develop optoelectronic or photonic devices based on graphene and hbn,
I am excited personally very about this novel theoretical work. he research team also included Kin Hung Fung of Hong kong Polytechnic University.
The work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Air force Office of Scientific research
#Defusing bombs by color This March, Cambodia held its first national-level science festival at the Royal University of Phnom penh,
The demining process, called explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), is dangerous but necessary work. It is estimated that there are still 4 to 6 million unexploded pieces of ordnance in Cambodia,
Vandiver, on top of other MIT and Edgerton Center-related work, stays in contact and continues to be involved in projects that make an impact in developing countries
or mitigate drag on demand. his work was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada a
because there a fixed amount of energy that consumed by doing the work, says Brett Miwa,
Venkat Viswanathan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this work, says the analysis presented in the new paper ddresses a very important question of
The work was supported by the U s. Department of energy Center for Energy storage Research, based at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois n
but we still want to work with a first responder existing smartphone, Aguilar says. But the key innovation, Aguilar says,
and work around noise and other image-quality problems. Because of this, it can stitch multiple images in a fraction of a second,
or smartphone technologies. ur main focus is making sure the Explorer works well in the market,
In this new work, he and his colleagues have shown that desirable characteristics for such devices, such as high power density,
and SCW concentration, the researchers combined their experimental work with theoretical modeling and analysis. Based on those studies,
In the work, which appeared this month in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale,
#and it's difficult to isolate the efficiency of each step says Dr. Brendan O'connor an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.
This kind of printer works by pulling ink droplets out of the nozzle rather than pushing them allowing for smaller droplets.
What does their work mean for consumers? As for TV technology nearly every TV manufacturer at CES this year remarked Geoffrey Morrison in CNET said quantum dots helped deliver better more lifelike color.
The work is being published in the prestigious journal Nature Nanotechnology. Few materials have received as much attention from the scientific world
This work the results of which are being published this very week in the prestigious journal Nature Nanotechnology
This work was published in Science Bulletin. Solar energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources
This work not only revealed the in depth understanding of light trapping by nanobowl optical concentrator but also demonstrated the feasibility of implementing geometrical light trapping in low-cost solution processible OPV.
This work demonstrates that by stacking multiple two-dimensional (2-D) materials in random ways we can create semiconductor junctions that are as functional as those with perfect alignment says Dr. Linyou Cao senior author of a paper on the work
Kong the lead author of the Oct 31 article describing the current work in the journal Nano Letters said that the contact lens project on the other hand involved the printing of active electronics using diverse materials.
Our approach reduces the cost of nanolithography to the point where it could be done in your garage says Dr. Chih-Hao Chang an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.
For this work we focused on creating nanostructures using photosensitive polymers which are used commonly in lithography Zhang says.
Understanding how the coating works gives us an indication of the direction we need to move in to overcome the problems with silicon electrodes said materials scientist Chongmin Wang of the Department of energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
The work was supported by OSU. In the chemical reaction that was developed the end result is nanoporous graphene a form of carbon that's ordered in its atomic and crystalline structure.
Nanoporous carbon materials can also adsorb gas pollutants work as environmental filters or be used in water treatment.
In the last few years, such atomic sensors have also proven useful for work with atomic force microscopes.
"We believe that the results of this work are an important contribution to the use of inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy that will allow the technique to be used as an additional source of information in materials science
#Nanomaterials to preserve ancient works of art Little would we know about history if it weren't for books and works of art.
But as time goes by conserving this evidence of the past is becoming more and more of a struggle.
The most ancient works of art are increasingly suffering the ravages of time while traditional restoration techniques pose serious problems in terms of physicochemical compatibility with substances contained in artefacts and toxicity.
The three-year project which ends this month has developed advanced nanomaterials for preventive conservation of works of art.
This involved nanomaterials that are physico-chemically compatible with the components of works of art
but almost exclusively to develop advanced diagnostic techniques for the characterisation of works of art and their degradation processes.
We could compare preservation of cultural heritage to medicine where the works of art play the role of the patients:
The number of degradation processes affecting a large variety of works of art requires the development of new methodologies and materials
which is key to the long-term stability of the treated works of art and their availability to future generations.
There are plenty of examples showing how traditional materials can be detrimental to works of art for instance wall paintings treated with acrylic
What are the most promising materials you developed The project has been successful in producing and effectively testing several new materials for the conservation of works of art four
The second is the dispersion of alkaline nanoparticles in either short chain alcohols or water for the ph control of movable works of art such as paper parchment and leather.
We also came up with nanostructured cleaning fluids such as oil-in-water microemulsions for the removal of dirt and unwanted coatings on works of art.
Nanoparticles for the ph control of movable works of art (e g. paper wood canvas) have been branded under the trademark Nanorestore Paper;
and materials for modern and contemporary works of art such as acrylic paintings plastic sculptures and composite works that include metal textiles polymers etc.
This is the reason why we are proposing a new project within the Horizon 2020 call named NANORESTART (Nanomaterials for the RESTORARTION of the works of modern ART to highlight the new start with respect to classic art conservation) that aims
to conserve modern/contemporary works of art. In order to address this challenge we have created a unique partnership that groups research institutions and materials science experts together with high-profile museums conservation centres and experienced professionals in the field of modern art preservation.
a postdoctoral researcher and the first author in this work, added: It looks extremely simple and equally promising.
which is key to creating the unique properties that make nanoporous materials work. The rougher the metal is the less evenly porous it becomes.
The work is based on the concept of surface plasmon resonance: metal nanostructures can scatter different wavelengths (colors) of light due to the fact that the tiny nanostructures themselves resonate at different wavelengths.
Fan will work with Wintek to develop a prototype plasma system. The activation method has the potential to improve production efficiency saving time and energy he noted d
The work done by Liliana Licea Jimenez uses this material because it has a large power capacity.
It is an advantage to work with research projects demanded by the industry because they have a specific function for each company.
The tissue beneath and around the plug works to knit itself back together and eventually the plug disappears.
Cao's new transfer technique works by applying a drop of water to the thin film
Their work was published in Nano Letters. Working at the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)/ X-ray Science Division 26-ID beamline of the U s. Department of energy's Advanced Photon Source the researchers took advantage of some new technological innovations
because tunneling is a local effect sensitive only to the topmost layer of materials this phenomenon as observed topographically results from the tunneling of x-ray excited photoelectrons from states between the Fermi level and the work function.
and x-ray microscopy this new work has combined also the strengths of each to create a powerful and versatile imaging tool with an exciting promise and potential l
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