Chemical Engineering

MITEI releases report on the future of solar energy

Report highlights enormous potential and discusses pathways toward affordable solar energy.

May 5, 2015

MIT and Kuwait University researchers awarded $5.5 million for work on next-generation desalination systems

Funding sponsored through the Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the Environment.

April 24, 2015

Eight faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Among 197 elected this year to the prestigious honorary society.

April 22, 2015

An illustration of T Lymphocytes on a Cancer Cell.

Recruiting the entire immune system to attack cancer

Stimulating both major branches of the immune system halts tumor growth more effectively.

April 13, 2015

MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn, center, speaks to Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES) researchers from MIT and Moscow State University during a meeting at the MIT Materials Processing Center in February. Listening are MIT Professor Paula Hammond (left) and Skoltech CEES Director Keith Stevenson, who is based in Moscow.

Fostering U.S.-Russia energy innovation

Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage brings together researchers from MIT and two Russian institutes to develop advanced batteries and fuel cells.

April 10, 2015

Christine Ortiz, Leslie Kolodziejski, David Hardt, Eboney Hearn, Forest White, and Patrick Doyle

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grant to create a University Center of Exemplary Mentoring at MIT

April 1, 2015

MIT researchers designed these complex emulsions to change their configuration in response to stimuli, such as light, or the addition of a chemical surfactant.

A simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsions

Researchers can precisely control the distribution of liquids suspended within each other.

February 25, 2015

These scanning electron microscopy images, taken at different magnifications, show the structure of new hydrogels made of nanoparticles interacting with long polymer chains.

New nanogel for drug delivery

Self-healing gel can be injected into the body and act as a long-term drug depot.

February 19, 2015

Taking technology from the lab to the patient

Daniel Anderson wants to bring advances in drug delivery and biomaterials to the clinic.

February 17, 2015

Engineered insulin could offer better diabetes control

Molecule stays in the bloodstream and is turned on when blood sugar levels are too high.

February 9, 2015

This human T cell (blue) is under attack by HIV (yellow), the virus that causes AIDS. The virus specifically targets T cells, which play a critical role in the body's immune response against invaders like bacteria and viruses.

Evaluating strategies for HIV vaccination

Study yields insight into generating antibodies that target different strains of HIV.

February 6, 2015

MIT's newly elected members of the National Academy of Engineering are Hari Balakrishnan, Sangeeta Bhatia, Emery N. Brown, and Anantha Chandrakasan (in upper row), and Eric D. Evans, Karen K. Gleason, L. Rafael Reif, and Daniela Rus (in lower row).

Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering

New members include the Institute’s president and the director of Lincoln Laboratory.

February 5, 2015

Langer wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Award honors one engineer’s global impact on human health.

February 3, 2015

Commercializing a new generation of polymer coatings

GVD’s vapor-deposited polymer coatings improve performance efficiency in critical applications across industries.

January 12, 2015

Clocking energy-transfer rates in quantum dots

MIT chemistry graduate student Jolene Mork examines rates of excitonic-energy transfer.