Getting more electricity out of solar cells
New MIT model can guide design of solar cells that produce less waste heat, more useful current.
Buchwald receives 2014 Pauling Medal Award
Linus Pauling Award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of chemistry
Reinventing copper extraction with electricity
Antoine Allanore is developing molten copper sulfide electrolysis to improve purity and drastically reduce pollutants.
New material for flat semiconductors
Researchers find a two-dimensional, self-assembling material that might produce solar cells or transistors.
Seven faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Among 204 elected this year to the prestigious honorary society.
Targeting cancer with a triple threat
MIT chemists design nanoparticles that can deliver three cancer drugs at a time.
Tiny particles could help verify goods
Chemical engineers hope smartphone-readable microparticles could crack down on counterfeiting.
New leadership in technological innovation
Deshpande Center appoints Timothy M. Swager as faculty director
Making cancer drugs better
Killian Award recipient Stephen Lippard describes his work on platinum-based chemotherapy agents.
Fast synthesis could boost drug development
Chemists devise a new way to manufacture peptide drugs, which hold promise for treating many diseases.
New catalyst could lead to cleaner energy
MIT chemists devise a reaction that traps carbon dioxide and turns it into something useful.
Robert Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean of science, dies at 92
Chemist’s seminal contributions to the thermodynamics and kinetics of biochemical reactions still shape the field, colleagues say.
Crossing disciplines, and international borders
Rhodes Scholar John Mikhael, who calls both the U.S. and Lebanon home, is also comfortable in many scientific fields.