Research – MIT Department of Chemistry

Synthetic mucus can mimic the real thing

An MIT team has created polymers that replicate the structure of mucins, the molecules that give mucus its unique antimicrobial properties.

The startup Transaera is using a class of materials, advanced by Professor Mircea Dinca, to create a more energy-efficient air conditioner.

Use of a novel electrolyte could allow advanced metal electrodes and higher voltages, boosting capacity and cycle life.

Research on how water behaves in a proton channel provides possible new avenues for flu treatment.

Discovery may offer clues to carbon’s role in planet and star formation.

New technique speeds up calculations of drug molecules’ binding affinity to proteins.

A strategy for preventing boron-containing compounds from breaking down could help medicinal chemists design new drugs.

Reducing internal losses could pave the way to low-cost perovskite-based photovoltaics that match silicon cells’ output.

The latest research from the Shalek Lab, published recently in Science Immunology.

RAK Week is a time dedicated to connecting members of the MIT community through small acts of kindness.

Cutting edge-tool reserved exclusively for students is fast, efficient, and environmentally friendly.

Amanuella Mengiste, a chemistry graduate student and 2020–2021 Robert J. Silbey fellow, explores the ever-expanding field of directed evolution

The paper, “Engineering couplings for exciton transport using synthetic DNA scaffolds", was published on January 14, 2021.