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Scientists propose novel way to speed up light-activated drug discovery
Light can do a lot of interesting things. It can power applications such as energy storage and biological imaging. In medicine, it can be used to activate drugs…
Elsa Olivetti and Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli develop new recipes for new materials
What if we could improve the environmental impact of the products that run our world, from the catalysts that drive chemical reactions to the cement used in buildings…
Nova episode “Chasing Carbon Zero” features Yet-Ming Chiang
DMSE Professor Yet-Ming Chiang talks to reporter Miles O’Brien in an episode of the long-running science program titled “Chasing Carbon Zero,” which premiered Wednesday night. Through Form Energy, the…
A path to more efficient diagnoses
Disease diagnosis in hospitals today is a slow process. If a patient is suspected of having a life-threatening illness such as cancer, a biopsy is performed to excise…
Local researchers are aiming to create the perfect battery
Professor Emeritus Donald Sadoway discusses his work developing a safer, cheaper battery that could be used to store renewable energy. Sadoway notes that materials for the battery are…
Engineers develop a new kind of shape-memory material
Shape-memory metals, which can revert from one shape to a different one simply by being warmed or otherwise triggered, have been useful in a variety of applications, as…
MIT’s National Science Foundation grant will advance “socioresilient materials design”
Too often society understands the unintended negative consequences long after the materials that make up our homes and cities and systems have been in production and use for…