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Microplasma-Enabled Sputtering of Nanostructured Materials for the Agile Manufacture of Electronic Components
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)
Additive manufacturing has revolutionized the low-volume manufacturing space; for example, polymers can be extruded and joined together to produce arbitrary shapes at the push of a button. However, this revolution is ...
Hardware-efficient quantum error correction with nitrogen-vacancy centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Quantum technologies promise to revolutionize many fields, ranging from precise sensing to fast computation. The success of novel technologies based on quantum effects rests on engineering quantum systems robust to ...
Regularized predictive control framework for robust dynamic legged locomotion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Legged robots have the potential to be highly dynamic machines capable of outperforming humans and animals in executing locomotion tasks within dangerous and unstructured environments. Unfortunately, current control methods ...
The Effect of Attenuation from Fish on Long-Range Active and Passive Acoustic Sensing in the Ocean
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)
Attenuation from fish can reduce the intensity of acoustic signals and significantly decrease detection range for long-range active and passive sensing in the ocean. This makes it important to understand the relevant ...
Advanced Rheological Characterization of Nanofilled Materials for Automotive Applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)
Nanofilled polymer composites and lubricants have gained significant attention in fuelefficient vehicle designs due to the superior material properties and economic potentials with minimal filler loadings. However, mass-market ...
Hydrogel Machines - Design, Manufacturing, and Applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Natural hydrogels constitute the major components of the human body such as muscles and cartilages; and synthetic hydrogels have been widely used in applications that ...
Engineering physico-chemical interactions across drug delivery, agriculture and carbon capture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)
The interface between two phases often limits the efficiency of several phenomena. In drug delivery, viscous formulations are difficult to inject through medical needles as the no-slip boundary condition between the needle ...
Density-shift Immunomagnetic Separation for Pathogen Retrieval from Complex Media
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
In industries like food production, pathogenic bacteria detection is required for producers to confidently send products to market without the risk of costly product recalls. However, rapid, reliable detection remains an ...
A deterministic model for wear of piston ring and liner and a machine learning-based model for engine oil emissions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)
Nowadays, more constraints are required for design of internal combustion engines, to meet the energy saving and the emissions standards in the new era. Engine emissions and engine durability are two of the most important ...
Dexterous manipulation with simple grippers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis focuses on enabling robots, specially those with simple grippers, to dexterously manipulate an object in a grasp. The dexterity of a robot is not limited to the intrinsic capability of a gripper. The robot can ...