Aizenberg

You wouldn’t eat a new snack without a nutrition label on the package listing the ingredients, right? Haritosh Patel wants the same to be true for the air you breathe inside buildings. As an Aizenberg Lab member and Wyss Postdoctoral Fellow, he’s...

If anyone would want to do cardiac research at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), it’s Shivani Srikanth. As a child, Srikanth had a heart condition that required a pacemaker to be surgically implanted, and the procedure was done at BCH. Now a fourth-year...

Millions of people worldwide suffer from hydrocephalus, or a buildup of excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and which recently received greater attention when Billy Joel announced his diagnosis . Treatment usually involves surgical placement of...

Today, systems that cool buildings account for as much as 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That may seem like a small fraction, but it’s significant: double the emissions associated with all air travel, for example. As the world gets hotter...

Sometimes it just takes one class, or even one project, to make everything else click into place. In the spring of their second year, Bella Pignataro took “ES50: Introduction to Electrical Engineering” at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering...

Liquid crystal elastomers are a class of soft materials that can change shape in response to stimuli such as light or heat — making them promising for applications in soft robotics, wearable and biomedical devices, smart textiles and more. But designing...

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Utrecht University have reported on a previously elusive way to improve the selectivity of catalytic...

By Leah Burrows, via SEAS News For years, scientists have been attempting to engineer tiny, artificial cilia for miniature robotic systems that can perform complex motions, including bending, twisting, and reversing. Building these smaller-than-a-human...

At the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN, Joanna Aizenberg received the ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry. See CEN for more details.

The Research Center for Functional Molecular Systems presents the Netherlands Awards for Supramolecular Chemistry 2023, which recognize outstanding scientists in the field of supramolecular chemistry. The 2023 Netherlands Supramolecular Chemistry Award is...