Location: Cambridge, United States
Source: "Low Temperature Synthesis of Vertically Aligned
Carbon Nanotubes with Electrical Contact to Metallic Substrates Enabled by
Thermal Decomposition of the Carbon Feedstock," Gilbert Nessim, Carl V. Thompson
et al, Nano...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally
occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other
large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural
materials and...
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Location: Delft, Germany
Molecular systems, or systems based on small organic molecules, possess
interesting and useful electronic properties. The rapidly developing area of
organic -or plastic- electronics is based on these materials. The investigations
of...
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Location: Khulna, Bangladesh
This Research
introduces a DC motor drive system with a fuzzy-artificial neural-network
controller. First, a neural network-based architecture is described for fuzzy
logic control. The characteristic rules and their membership functions of...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of
swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real
thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
An accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide
engineers' efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells
where it can be pumped out for storage or transport.
Researchers in MIT's Department of...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a
semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed by people safely away from the
dangers of the...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Not far beneath the ocean's surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a
daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a sharp variation in marine currents that traps...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Satellites orbiting the Earth must occasionally be nudged to stay on the
correct path. MIT scientists are developing a new rocket that could make this
and other spacecraft maneuvers much less costly, a consideration of growing
importance as...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Folding paper into shapes such as a crane or a butterfly is challenging
enough for most people. Now imagine trying to fold something that's about a
hundred times thinner than a human hair and then putting it to use as an
electronic device....
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid
transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance
that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries -- for cell phones and other
devices -- that...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of
energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of
20 major manufacturing processes.
Overall, new manufacturing systems are...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
For the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation
of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals
-- in this case, fish.
The work, conducted using a novel imaging technique,...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer
viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a
lithium-ion battery.
The new virus-produced batteries have the same energy capacity and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Living cells are bombarded with messages from the outside world -- hormones
and other chemicals tell them to grow, migrate, die or do nothing. Inside the
cell, complex signaling networks interpret these cues and make life-and-death...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Devices can help children with
brain injuries learn to grasp and manipulate objects
Over the past few years, MIT engineers have successfully tested robotic
devices to help stroke patients learn to control their arms and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Ever since the 1940s, chrome has been used to add a protective coating and
shiny luster to a wide range of metal products, from bathroom fixtures to car
bumpers.
Chrome adds beauty and durability, but those features come at a heavy...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.
Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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