Chemical engineering

Vials of lipid-like molecules developed by a team from MIT and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Some of the compounds have successfully delivered RNA interference agents in animals.

Team develops safe, effective RNA interference technique

Method holds promise for treating cancer and infection

April 27, 2008

Gleason named associate dean for engineering research

April 2, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, one of two winners of the 2008 Max Planck Research Award, gives a speech at the June 26th award ceremony as part of the 59th annual meeting of the Max Planck Society in Dresden, Germany.

Langer wins major German science award

March 18, 2008

Angela Belcher, professor of materials science and engineering.

Shell shock

March 11, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer and faculty member Jeffrey Karp, both affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, display an adhesive they developed that was inspired by the gecko and may have medical and surgical applications.

MIT creates gecko-inspired bandage

February 18, 2008

MIT professor discusses future of biofuels

February 16, 2008

MIT researcher addresses biomedical engineering challenges

February 15, 2008

Professor Jeff Tester cycling toward Teton Pass, near the border between Idaho and Wyoming.

Tour de force: 'Cycle-logical' bonding for students, professor

February 13, 2008

From left, Broad Institute postdoctoral associate Kris Wood, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering Paula Hammond and chemical engineering graduate student Dan Schmidt show the thin film they have developed. The film releases drugs and other chemical agents upon application of a small electrical field.

A 'micro pharmacy' inside

Implantable film can deliver drugs

February 11, 2008

New federal chemical rules to impact MIT

January 4, 2008

Graduate student Christopher Bettinger and Robert Langer, Institute Professor and professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, have developed a way to make capillaries grow on a nano-patterned surface.

MIT works toward engineered blood vessels

Vessels could be used in human body

December 17, 2007

Hammond named Bayer Professor in Chemical Engineering

December 14, 2007

A group of MIT researchers, gathered here around naturally water-repelling lotus leaves, has developed a class of material structures that repel oil and hydrocarbons. From left are Gareth McKinley, Professor of Teaching Innovation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Robert Cohen, St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering; Anish Tuteja, postdoc in chemical engineering; and Wonjae Choi,...

MIT creates oil-repelling materials

Many applications in aviation, more

December 6, 2007

From left, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Edwin Thomas, who is also department head, Professor Patrick Doyle of chemical engineering and materials science postdoc Ji-Hyun Jang. The researchers have designed a technique to control the size, shape and texture of microparticles.

Sculpted 3-D particles could aid diagnostics, tissue engineering

December 4, 2007

This figure from an atomistic model shows a protein in the process of unwinding in response to pressure.

Speed plays crucial role in breaking protein's H-bonds

November 7, 2007

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - On Campus and Around the world

Browse By

Topics

Departments

Centers, Labs, & Programs

Schools

Topic