Tracking Hidden Highways to Build Better Batteries
Anyone who’s ever used a battery-powered device in Chicago (or anywhere else with a similar climate) is all too familiar with one particular problem: batteries slow down in the cold. A new study...
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Is It Magic? No, It’s Just Nobel Prize-Winning Metal-Organic Frameworks
Imagine a material so mystifying that a single gram of it boasts as much surface area as an industrial-sized warehouse—essentially, a molecular sponge capable of pulling fresh drinking water from arid...
Research Professor, a Master of Molecular Mysteries, Named AAAS Fellow
Amid the steady hum of machines surrounding him in his laboratory at Robert A. Pritzker Science Center, you’ll often find Illinois Tech Research Professor of Chemistry James Kaduk in solitude, hard at...
Federal Award Funds Breakthrough Startup
When Illinois Institute of Technology recently received federal funding to help researchers move their projects from the lab to the marketplace, they wanted undergraduates to get involved in a big way...
Goodbye Gasoline, Hello Water
Running a vehicle on water—not gas—sounds like an idea pulled straight from fiction. A breakthrough discovery by a team of scientists from Illinois Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute...
An ExLENT Opportunity: New Program to Provide Training for Sensor Science and Technology Careers
Sensor technology is among the fastest-growing modern technologies that impacts every industrial sector. The United States is making a concerted effort—as shown with the recently passed CHIPS and...
Computational ACTion: Computing Center Funds Interdisciplinary Research
Five research teams from Illinois Institute of Technology have received seed grants from the university’s Active Computational Thinking (ACT) Center to promote computing methods throughout various...
An Honor Befitting the Work: Illinois Tech to Invest Three New Endowed Chairs
Fittingly, as the university community comes together to celebrate all that makes Illinois Institute of Technology unique during the annual Homecoming celebration, it will also take time to recognize...
Microfluidic Tool Aims to Catch Dental Decay Before It’s Too Late
A multidisciplinary team of Illinois Institute of Technology professors led by Professor of Chemistry Rong Wang received an award from the National Institutes of Health to develop a device that will...
Illinois Tech ‘Spinout’ Startup Influit Energy Has Created the World’s First Rechargeable, Safe, Electric Fuel
It was only a matter of time—before Influit Energy would need to hire more scientists, before the 2,100-square-foot lab space that the company occupies in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood would grow...