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Targeting Mechanisms of Stress-Related Hair Loss
More than 80 percent of men and nearly half of women experience significant hair loss during their lifetime. For many, the thinning begins well before middle age. Everyone has a story to share about the annoying effects of hair loss, which range…
DBD
- Yelena Bisharyan
Investigators
- Ya-Chieh Hsu
Desodiated Sodium Transition Metal Oxides For Primary Batteries
Advancements in battery technology have been a research focus for many reasons, including cost reduction. Sodium-ion batteries have emerged as a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries due to the abundance and low cost of sodium compounds.…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- Xin Li
Copolymers For Stabilizing Emulsions And/Or Forming Interfacial Films, And Methods Thereof
Emulsions typically consist of dispersed droplets in a continuous phase, and they naturally tend to separate due to interfacial energy, leading to droplet coalescence. Copolymers are designed for stabilizing emulsions or droplets, which are mixtures…
Investigators
- David Weitz
PFAS-free Textile Coatings
Fluorinated polymers, commonly referred to as PFAS, are used as surface coatings in a variety of common consumer products, such as cookware, food packaging, and textiles. These chemicals make products non-stick or water-repellant due to their…
DBD
- Christopher Petty
Investigators
- Joanna Aizenberg
Organ-on-a-Chip Determines if Injected Medicines Work
Around 16 billion injections are performed worldwide each year, mostly for therapeutic applications including the delivery of biologics such as insulin and monoclonal antibodies. Compared to intravenous injections, subcutaneous injections are…
DBD
- Yelena Bisharyan
Investigators
- Samir Mitragotri
Supermode Optical Resonator
Optical resonators trap light and amplify it to build power. They then emit it in a more controlled powerful form. They are used as laser sources, signal amplifiers, and sensors. They make telecommunications more efficient by enabling information to…
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- Federico Capasso
- Vincent Ginis
- Cristina Benea-Chelmus
- Jinsheng Lu
- Marco Piccardo
Net-Zero House with Living Lab Provides Testbed for Sustainable Innovations
HouseZero is a data-driven living laboratory to drive a greater understanding of building in real-world use and the headquarters for the Harvard Center For Green Buildings And Cities. The original home was built in Cambridge, Massachusetts before…
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- Ali Malkawi
Soft Upper-Body Robot for Stroke Survivors
Stroke survivors often have difficulty with upper body movement, and rehabilitation at home can be challenging. Exoskeletons can be incredibly beneficial for ergonomic structural support in rehabilitation, but due to their size, cost, and…
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- Conor Walsh
- Thomas Proietti
- Ciaran O'Neill
Silicone-based Wearable Sensors for Higher Reliability and Performance
Flexible sensors are attached to a surface to measure the amount of deflection or bending. They are well suited to measuring movement in various applications, including human-machine interfaces and rehabilitation. However, strain detectors developed…
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- Conor Walsh
- Oluwaseun Araromi
- Addison Liu
- Robert Wood
Robotic Grasping via Entanglement
Picking up and moving irregular or fragile objects can be difficult to automate. Robotic graspers require awareness of the object's shape and areas of fragility. The pressure must be strong enough to hold the object's weight but delicate enough not…
DBD
- Sam Liss
Investigators
- Robert Wood
- Kaitlyn Becker
- Nicholas Charles
- Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
- Clark Teeple