MIT News – MIT Department of Chemistry

Chemistry bonds “quirky” researchers in hard-working Surendranath lab

Mangoes, coconuts, and imaginary lizards make using electricity to rearrange chemical bonds fun and exciting.

Biologists devise an efficient method to prepare fluorescently tagged proteins and simulate their native environment.

New technique for observing reaction products offers insights into the chemical mechanisms that formed them.

MIT-Italy helps build supercharged partnerships on campus and across the globe.

Researchers develop a method to isolate and sequence the RNA of T cells that react to a specific target.

Extremely large electric fields can prevent umbrella-shaped ammonia molecules from inverting.

Those selected for these positions receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.

Materials could be useful for delivering drugs or imaging agents in the body; may offer alternative to some industrial plastics.

MIT-developed method may lead to portable devices for making the disinfectant on-site where it’s needed.

Six scholar and professors are spending this academic year in engagement with the MIT community.

This activation, which occurred in astrocytes but not in neurons, promoted the survival of proximal neurons that had oxidative injury

SMART has developed a new way to study cells, paving the way for a better understanding of how cancers spread and become deadly.

Faculty member since 2003 is known for physical chemistry research, as well as contributions to education and the department’s climate.