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Dr. Hangbo Zhao successfully defends thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Hangbo Zhao, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Liquid Manipulation Using Engineered Carbon Nanotube Surfaces,” on May 12th, 2017 in front of a faculty panel comprised of Professors Kripa Varanasi and Xuanhe Zhao. Dr. Zhao is the first Mechanosynthesis Group alumnus to be awarded his PhD at MIT, and will continue with…
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Desktop Metal unveils their Studio metal desktop printer
Desktop Metal, a Burlington-MA based startup, unveiled their Studio product line this past week. The Studio system includes both printer and sintering oven and can be used for directly printing metal parts safely in an office or desktop setting. The Studio relies on extrusion of a metal rod of filamentary material, unlike other powder-based systems…
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Dan Oropeza Gomez receives NASA Fellowship
Daniel Oropeza Gomez, a graduate student in the Mechanosynthesis Group, was awarded the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF). The NSTRF program, “sponsors U.S. citizen and permanent resident graduate students who show significant potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies for our Nation’s science, exploration and economic future.” Congratulations, Dan!
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Welcome, New Members!
In a bright start to 2017, the Mechanosynthesis Group welcomed several new members. Seungju Seo, a graduate student from the University of Tokyo, joined us for a few weeks in February to advance an ongoing research collaboration with the University of Tokyo. Ben Awuondo, a graduate student in MIT’s LGO program, joined us as well…
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Prof. Hart Delivers 2-Day Course on AM at NSRDEC
On February 28th and March 2nd, Prof. Hart was invited to the U.S. Army’s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) to deliver a 2-day course on additive manufacturing. The course was an adaptation of his longer, 5-day professional course, “Additive Manufacturing: From 3D Printing to the Factory Floor,” delivered at MIT each summer.…
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Christoph Meier’s PhD Thesis honored by GAMM Juniors Award
Dr. Christoph Meier, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanosynthesis Group, was honored by the “GAMM Juniors Award” for his thesis, “Geometrically Exact Finite Element Formulations for Slender Beams and Their Contact Interaction.” His thesis was submitted at the Institute of Computational Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) under supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang…
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Additive manufacturing of cellulosic materials with high strength and antimicrobial functionality
S.W. Pattinson, A.J. Hart. Advanced Materials Technologies. Additive manufacturing of pure cellulosic objects is demonstrated via extrusion of cellulose acetate and conversion to cellulose, rendering parts with isotropic strength and high toughness. Ease of functionalization is shown by addition of antimicrobial dye to the printing ink, which kills 95% of bacteria upon exposure to light.
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2.008 Final Exposition
Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students enrolled in MIT’s course 2.008, Design and Manufacturing II, had the opportunity to showcase their work at an exposition held in MIT’s iconic Lobby 7 earlier this month. The teams of students were tasked with using a variety of manufacturing techniques – from traditional CNC machining, thermoforming, and injection molding to…
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Welcome, New Members!
The Mechanosynthesis Group welcomes several new members for the Fall 2016 semester. Mechanosynthesis UROP Alumni Jacob Rothman joined us as a new graduate student. Michael Arnold, a new graduate student, joined us in a continuation of the soil sensing work with the TATA Center for Technology and Design. Dan Oropeza joined us as graduate student…
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Ron Rosenberg inducted to Society of Tata Fellows
Ron Rosenberg, an M.S. student in the Mechanosynthesis Group, was recently inducted into the Society of Tata Fellows. The Society is a “a global community of engineers, entrepreneurs, and scholars who have completed Fellowships at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design.” Congratulations, Ron!