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**CBA News & Notes**

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December 9, 2021

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- We'll be hosting again the annual *How To Make (almost) Anything* open house, from 5:00 to 6:00 on Monday December 13th on the sixth floor of MIT's building E14:\
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  <https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.21>

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  [Contact](http://cba.mit.edu/about/index.html) the CBA office if you're interested in attending and do not have MIT campus access.\
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  - We've received a NIH research grant to develop the laser micromachining of diamond rotors, with an ambitious goal of spinning them at 10 million RPM to improve the resolution of magnetic resonance studies of molecular structures:\
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    <https://reporter.nih.gov/search/dOprwUtPxEKe4iMolhwxCA/project-details/10299171>

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    - The newest additions to our [digital fabrication facility](http://cba.mit.edu/tools) are a Viteris MW250 micro-EDM, capable of working with ultra-fine wires down to 10 microns:\
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      <http://www.viteris.com/products/MW250.html>

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      and a Stratasys J850 high-resolution multi-material 3D printer for producing complex functional parts:\
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      <https://www.stratasys.com/3d-printers/j8-series>

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      - We're pleased to welcome Autodesk back, with a gift in support of collaboration with their Research group:\
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        <https://www.autodesk.com/research>

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        - Prof. Gershenfeld described CBA research here:\
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          <https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/success-stories/bits-into-atoms-atoms-into-bits>

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          - Andreas Mershin spoke with Malcolm Gladwell:\
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            <https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/the-dog-will-see-you-now>

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            and hosted a conference on machine olfaction:\
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            <https://www.osmocosm.org>

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            - A patent has issued on shifted-wavelength photosynthetic energy harvesting:\
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              <https://patents.google.com/patent/US11174456B2>

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              - A CBA team investigated biosorption to remove trace concentrations of heavy metals:\
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                <https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/633154>

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                - Tech Review covered the algorithms developed at CBA for mathematically unfolding locked letters:\
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                  <https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/26/1036732/unfolding-history>

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                  - Here's a feature on a machine-building class project printing sensors and controls:\
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                    <https://hackaday.com/2021/09/17/3d-printing-complex-sensors-and-controls-with-metamaterials>

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                    - Fab labs were featured in a NSF report on increasing access to science in underrepresented communities:\
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                      <https://www.rti.org/publication/missing-millions/fulltext.pdf>

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                      - Our work on rapid-prototyping to support emergency medicine for the pandemic response is described here:\
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                        <https://issuu.com/saemonline/docs/saem_pulse_sep-oct_2021/28>

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                        - The Smithsonian covered the Interspecies Internet project:\
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                          [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-we-chat-with-whales-180978956/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-we-chat-with-whales-180978956)

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                          - We wish you a happy and healthy holiday season, and hope to see as many of you as possible in person as well as online in the coming year.

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