Chemical Engineering

J-WAFS' 2015 grantees present their ongoing research at the poster session of the J-WAFS Food and Water Conference, held April 27-28 at MIT.

J-WAFS awards $1.3 million in second round of seed grant funding

Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $100,000 per year for up to two years for innovative research on food and water challenges.

May 18, 2016

Martin Bazant named inaugural E.G. Roos (1944) Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering establishes new professorship and graduate student fellowship to honor alumnus.

May 11, 2016

“It’s an invisible layer that can provide a barrier, provide cosmetic improvement, and potentially deliver a drug locally to the area that’s being treated. Those three things together could really make it ideal for use in humans,” Daniel Anderson says.

New material temporarily tightens skin

“Second skin” polymer could also be used to protect dry skin and deliver drugs.

May 9, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Arup Chakraborty, Nancy Lynch, David Sabatini, and Hidde Ploegh

National Academy of Sciences elects four MIT professors

Chakraborty, Lynch, Ploegh, and Sabatini honored for research achievements.

May 3, 2016

MIT chemical engineering postdoc Amit Kumar PhD '10 (left) and Professor Gregory Stephanopoulos

3 Questions: Amit Kumar and Gregory Stephanopoulos on turning waste gases into biofuels

Research conducted by Kumar, along with a team led by Professor Greg Stephanopoulos, looks to the future of emissions reduction and recycling.

May 2, 2016

(Top) Stimulating the growth of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) in adipose tissue transforms the tissue from fat-storing white tissue to fat-burning brown tissue. A schematic of the nanoparticle (bottom left) that MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers used to deliver angiogenesis drugs to adipose tissue. (Bottom right) The nanoparticles imaged by transmission electron microscopy.

Fat-fighting nanoparticles

New drug-delivery approach holds potential for treating obesity.

May 2, 2016

MIT Energy Initiative awards nine seed fund grants for early-stage energy research

Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.

April 25, 2016

“I learned that MIT is a place that gives you the resources, and if you want to use them, you'll make something very beautiful and positively productive,” Juan Jaramillo says. “So I applied and fortunately I got in early. It was a dream come true.”

Combining curiosity with a desire to help

Senior Juan Jaramillo harnesses his natural curiosity to help others, while never forgetting his roots.

April 20, 2016

Two MIT faculty win 2016 NSF CAREER Awards

James Swan and Konstantin Turitsyn are among 160 young scientists and engineers poised to explore new frontiers and inspire a future generation of scholars.

April 8, 2016