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Mia's ES100 Project Highlighted by Harvard SEAS

For her ES100 Senior Capstone Project, Mia focused on upcycling waste wool for use in building cladding panels. This works seeks to 1) push the boundaries on sustainable building materials and 2) tackle the problem of ~ 1 billion kilograms of wool wasted...
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Wall Street Journal Profiles Sniffing!

We're excited to share that the sniffing project in the Aizenberg Lab has been featured as part of a recent article covering electronic nose technologies, aroma creation, olfaction restoration, and more by the WSJ. Here's the link to the story online...
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Raphael Kay Highlighted by Harvard SEAS

Raphael's research is at the intersection of architecture, design, nature-inspired materials, and sustainability, with the goal to bring nature-inspired sustainable solutions to real-world building challenges. He is currently developing solutions to the...
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Salata Climate Blog Highlights Methane Sensor Work

Thanks to the Salata Institute for highlighting our work on developing a methane sensor that is minimally intrusive to a cow and can provide real-time data of its methane emissions in its natural environment. Check out the article here: https:/...
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Team Winner of MIT-MBG Seed Grant!

A new collaborative project between between Tim Swager at MIT, Dr. Stella Lee at Mass General Brigham (MGB), and our lab recently was one of the winners of the the Inaugural MIT-MGB Seed Grant . The mission is twofold: first, to create a quantitative test...
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Aizenberg Lab Projects Featured in Wyss Article

The Wyss Institute recently launched the Sustainable Futures Initiative, aiming to apply biologically inspired engineering to immediately implementable solutions to problems affecting our environment. The Aizenberg lab has been one of the first groups to...
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Bioinspiration Featured in the NYTimes

A recent article in the NYTimes highlights how fundamental bioinspiration research has a rich history of innoations from flying machines to Velctro, and continues to burgeon with modern developments thanks to the invention of more powerful tools and...
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Project Air Tests Air Quality Sensors in HouseZero

Part of the sensor team is focused on taking our sensor of volatiles to commercial readiness, first for accurate indoor air quality measurement. The goal is to provide real-time, quantitative information regarding the specific composition of the air. This...
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