Paula Hammond and Arup Chakraborty named Institute Professors
The two chemical engineers are awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor.
The two chemical engineers are awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor.
Faculty members Dan Freedman, Robert Griffin, Larry Guth, Stephen Morris, and Gigliola Staffilani elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.
Adam Willard’s studies of how electrons flow through microscopically tangled materials could lead to new types of photovoltaic materials.
The membrane’s structure could provide a blueprint for robust artificial tissues.
Thirteen staff members recognized for dedication to School of Science and to MIT.
An MIT team has created polymers that replicate the structure of mucins, the molecules that give mucus its unique antimicrobial properties.
The startup Transaera is using a class of materials, advanced by MIT Professor Mircea Dinca for over a decade, to create a more energy-efficient air conditioner.
Use of a novel electrolyte could allow advanced metal electrodes and higher voltages, boosting capacity and cycle life.
Research on how water behaves in a proton channel provides possible new avenues for flu treatment.
Discovery may offer clues to carbon’s role in planet and star formation.
New technique speeds up calculations of drug molecules’ binding affinity to proteins.
WISDM has selected 20 women to take part in a Story Collider communications skills training.
The Institute ranks second in four subject areas.
A strategy for preventing boron-containing compounds from breaking down could help medicinal chemists design new drugs.
Reducing internal losses could pave the way to low-cost perovskite-based photovoltaics that match silicon cells’ output.