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MAY 15, 2010
An MIT-led team has designed an airplane that is estimated to use 70% less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of NO x. million research contract to develop environmental and performance concepts that will help guide the agency’s aeronautics research over the next 25 years. Click to enlarge. .
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NOVEMBER 22, 2018
MIT researchers have demonstrated that an aircraft with a 5-meter wingspan can sustain steady-level flight using ionic-wind propulsion. The researchers describe their proof of concept for electroaerodynamic (EAD) airplane propulsion in a paper in the journal Nature. The MIT team’s final design resembles a large, lightweight glider.
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MARCH 27, 2020
Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to streamline the discovery process using a machine learning system. MIT professor of chemical engineering Heather Kulik says they “are really fascinating, functional materials that are unlike a lot of other material phases. These can exist in a vast number of different forms.
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APRIL 25, 2013
Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. MIT has filed for a patent on the system. These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce. Earlier post.).
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APRIL 9, 2019
In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks. Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance. —Daniel Cohn.
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OCTOBER 4, 2013
Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have developed a new concept for a “neutron microscope”—a compact focusing-mirror-based small-angle neutron scattering instrument—that would use neutrons instead of beams of light or electrons to create high-resolution images. Earlier post.)
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APRIL 12, 2010
A team of MIT researchers, led by Dr. Angela Belcher, has engineered a common bacteriophage virus (M13) to function as a scaffold to mediate the co-assembly of zinc porphyrins (photosensitizer) and iridium oxide hydrosol clusters (catalyst) for visible light-driven water oxidation. TEM images of the virus-templated IrO 2 nanowires.
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