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With a three-year grant from the Department of Energy, a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and partner organizations are launching the Synthesis and Processing Informed by Rational Algorithmic Learning Center, or SPIRAL, a multi-institution effort to harness the power of artificial intelligence to accelerate the optimization of low-cost materials for solar energy. Johns Hopkins…

Reported in the February 11, 2021 issue of Nature Catalysis, a research team led by Chao Wang, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, successfully developed a new way to titrate the active metal sites embedded in Cu-exchanged zeolites (Cu-ZSM5). Dicopper-oxo centers ([Cu-O-Cu]2+) have long been believed to the active sites in…

Using a $125,000 grant from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, Stavroula Sofou, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a researcher with the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, is developing a new approach to fighting metastatic cancer resistant to other therapies. Clinical studies using high-energy radiation in the form of alpha-particles against metastatic tumors have…

Inspired by a parasitic worm that digs its sharp teeth into its host’s intestines, Johns Hopkins researchers have designed tiny, star-shaped microdevices that can latch onto intestinal mucosa and release drugs into the body. Click here for the full story Here are some other works from the Gracias lab:   Express (UK) December 15 2020…

ChemBE's Konstantinos Konstantopoulos leads colleagues in seeking to understand the role that dorsoventral polarity plays in cancer cell migration.

ChemBE's Honggang Cui, Feihu Wang, Hao Su, and other colleagues, investigated a possible combination chemo-immunotherapy approach using a known chemotherapy drug called camptothecin (CPT) and activating a cell signaling pathway called stimulator of interferon genes (STING), which stimulates the immune system.

  The Kokkoli group has designed an aptamer-amphiphile and used it to decorate the surface of a liquid crystal. The biosensor detected beta-lactoglobulin, a major allergen from cow’s milk, at 0.18 ppm, thus demonstrating that it has the potential to be used for the fast and label-free detection of beta-lactoglobulin in food processing facilities. This…

High-entropy nanoparticles hold promise for catalytic applications Alloying is a magic trick used to produce new materials by synergistically mixing at least two metallic elements to form a solid solution. Recent developments in science have found great applications of alloy materials in catalysis, for which nanometer scale bi- or tri-metallic particles are used to accelerate…

Rebecca Schulman, associate faculty member at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology’s (INBT) and associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering, along with PhD student Yi Li, have developed DNA nanostructures that can self-heal from damage caused by nuclease enzymes in the body. Their results were published in…

Engineers develop a diagnostic tool and method for identifying aggressive breast cancer cells.

Scientists manipulate nanomaterials to make them a million times thinner than a strand of hair—dramatically increasing their reactivity.

  Sharon Gerecht, Director and core faculty member at INBT, Kent Gordon Croft Investment Management Faculty Scholar, and professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was awarded funding by The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commissions for her project, “Swine Study of Patient-Specific Small-Diameter Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts for Arterial Conduits.” Established by the…