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Using machine learning, the computational method can provide details of how materials work as catalysts, semiconductors, or battery components.

The molecules, known as acenes, could be useful as organic light-emitting diodes or solar cells, among other possible applications.

Professor Deblina Sarkar has been awarded The Sontag Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist Award. The award honors extraordinary scientists with the potential to make a significant impact in the field of brain cancer. Sarkar’s group fabricates their novel nanoelectronic devices at MIT.nano!

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Professor Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies with uses “from lab to fork,” including helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods.

Researchers are working to advance the field of glycoscience, illuminating the essential role of carbohydrates for human health and disease.

More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.

An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years.

MIT and MGH researchers design a local, gel-based drug-delivery platform that may provoke a system-wide immune response to metastatic tumors.

Using fluorescent labels that switch on and off, MIT engineers can study how molecules in a cell interact to control the cell’s behavior.

Core-shell structures made of hydrogel could enable more efficient uptake in the body.