Designing device screens that resist fingerprints requires understanding how fingerprints behave
Keeping Your Touch Screens Clean
Nanofiber Electrodes
Nitrogen-doped carbon nanofiber shows excellent properties as electrode for sodium-ion batteries
70th Birthday: Jürgen Gmehling
Chemical engineering professor celebrates 70th birthday
300th Birthday: Antonio de Ulloa
Spanish scientist, explorer, and naval officer credited with the first description of platinum
How Arsenic Builds Up in Plant Seeds
Inositol transport system regulates arsenic uptake
Answering Nature’s Call with a Drug
Medicinal chemists develop a new lead candidate against overactive bladder
The Strongest Acid
Carborane acid H(CHB11F11) protonates carbon dioxide to claim the title of strongest acid known
Students Involved in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
MIT graduate students build the Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
Scarcity of Sand
An omnipresent yet scarce and vital raw material
New Synthetic Source of Scarce Anticancer Drug
Total synthesis provides a reliable supply of marine macrolide Mandelalide A