Chemistry
Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners
The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.
A regulatory loophole could delay ozone recovery by years
Scientists say an exception in the Montreal Protocol for the use of ozone-depleting feedstocks could set the ozone recovery back seven years.
Hydration entropy of cations regulates chloride ion diffusion during electrochemical chlorine evolution
Nature Chemistry, Published online: 08 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41557-025-02014-4 Cation effects have been rigorously studied in electrochemical charge transfer, but their role in mass transport remains unexplored. Now, it has been shown that the structural entropy of cation hydration quantitatively explains how cations regulate reactant diffusion during the chlorine evolution reaction.
Photoswitchable olefins as latent metathesis monomers for controlled polymerization
Nature Chemistry, Published online: 08 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41557-025-02011-7 Latent catalysis in olefin metathesis has seen great progress over the years, leading to key advances in the properties of polymers and 3D printing technologies. Now it is shown that the latency mechanism can be extended to the monomer through quadricyclane–norbornadiene interconversion, expanding the tools available to … Read more