Chemical and biological engineering addresses a range of problems in human health, energy, materials science, and industrial processes. Areas of excellence at Princeton include: applied and computational mathematics, bioengineering, environmental and energy science and technology, materials synthesis and processing, process engineering and science, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, and transport phenomena.
The robots have no internal controls. Guidance depends on a flexible tether. Photos by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
For these little robots, two heads are better than one
Award for Excellence honors graduate student achievement
Egemen Kolemen describes how he has used artificial intelligence to increase stability in the reactions that power nuclear fusion as a source of clean electricity. (Photos by David Dooley/Fotobuddy
Initiative aims to make Princeton a leader in AI accelerated engineering
Researchers have developed a tool that can bend DNA strands using light. The work represents a new way to probe the genome. Shown here, from an unrelated study, are chromosomes (blue) inside a human cell nucleus. Image by Steve Mabon and Tom Misteli, NCI Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Researchers bend DNA strands with light, revealing a new way to study the genome
Floating Sargassum in Puerto Rico (photo courtesy of Loretta Roberson of Marine Biological Laboratory).
Transforming troublesome seaweed into a feedstock of the future
Princeton Engineering researchers found a way to rapidly mix liquids in 3D porous environments where there is typically not enough space for turbulence to develop. Image courtesy of the researchers.
Better mixing leads to faster reactions for key chemicals
A Theory of Entropic Bonding in Colloidal Crystals
Assembly Engineering of Complex Particle Systems
Theories of Activated Molecular and Ion Transport in Polymer Melts, Networks and Glasses
Understanding and Engineering Catalytic Materials Using Nanocrystal Precursors
Single-atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood in Silico
Athanassios Panagiotopoulos