Jennifer Chu

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Discrete Manufacturing

Nanostitches enable lighter and tougher composite materials

System Integration

Electronic state emerges from layered graphene sandwich

Robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces

Vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs developed

Discrete Manufacturing

Superconductivity switches on and off in magic-angle graphene

Courtesy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Process Instrumentation and Sensors

Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage, contamination

Courtesy: Melanie Gonick, MIT

How a COVID-19 testing trailer was built for a university

Researchers giving robots human-like perception of their physical environments

Courtesy: Christine Daniloff, MIT

Portable system boosts laser precision for quantum computing

The new chip (top left) is patterned with tens of thousands of artificial synapses, or “memristors,” made with a silver-copper alloy. When each memristor is stimulated with a specific voltage corresponding to a pixel and shade in a gray-scale image (in this case, a Captain America shield), the new chip reproduced the same crisp image, more reliably than chips fabricated with memristors of different materials. Courtesy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AI and Machine Learning

Engineers put thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

Courtesy of: MIT

Graphene twists could help engineer quantum computing devices

With a new technique, MIT researchers can peel and stack thin films of metal oxides — chemical compounds that can be designed to have unique magnetic and electronic properties. The films can be mixed and matched to create multi-functional, flexible electronic devices, such as solar-powered skins and electronic fabrics. Courtesy: Felice Frankel, MIT

Engineers mix and match materials to make stretchy electronics

MIT postdoc Jeonyoon Lee is helping develop aerospace-grade composites without the enormous ovens and pressure vessels. Courtesy: Melanie Gonick, MIT

Discrete Manufacturing

Carbon nanotube film produces aerospace-grade composites

The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on the sequence of chain units that are locked and fed out from the “growing tip,” or gearbox. Courtesy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robot designed to “grow” like a plant

A new shoebox-sized laser produces terahertz waves (green squiggles) by using a special infrared laser (red) to rotate molecules of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, packed in a pen-sized cavity (grey).Courtesy: Chad Scales, US Army Futures Command/MIT

Vision and Discrete Sensors

Researchers generate terahertz laser with laughing gas

For last-mile delivery, robots of the future may use a new MIT algorithm to find the front door, using clues in their environment. Courtesy: MIT News

Technique helps robots find the front door

For the domes: A set of lattice structures that has transformed into spherical caps, or dome-like shapes, after application of a temperature difference. The individual samples range from 3x3 cells to 20x20 cells, with further variations cell sizes and rib dimensions. Courtesy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Mesh-like structures morph into predetermined shapes