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Chemical and Biological Engineering

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.

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Electron microscope image of two bars that nearly touch and are connected with a very thin line.
A new Princeton-led NSF quantum institute will focus on reinventing the core component of a superconducting qubit, called the Josephson junction. This false-color microscope image shows a Josephson junction with tantalum capacitors (pink), aluminum electrical leads (purple) and a silicon substrate (blue). Image by Faranak Bahrami

Princeton to lead major federally-funded institute to unlock quantum computing challenges

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Roy Jackson, titan of fluid mechanics, dies at 94

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As part of her research on lunar cement, Ph.D. student Sophia Bergen uses an optical emission spectrometer to measure the concentrations of different ions in a sample. Photo by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Innovation grants could help build a moon base, block food-borne illness, and map the brain

Endowed professorships recognize excellence in energy and environmental research, structural engineering, and molecular dynamics

Senior thesis explored a new solution to stubborn plastic waste

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Princeton University researchers led by Celeste Nelson have discovered a new way to study embryonic organs — using energy. By mapping mitochondria across the space of a developing tissue, they were able to predict where that tissue would fold to create complex shapes. Above, a mouse eye develops, with the magenta dots representing mitochondria. Image courtesy of the researchers

A new way to look at developing lifeforms, using energy to predict action

Events

September 09

4:00 pm

Structure-function Relationships for Sustainable Feedstock Upgrading: Lessons in Oxidation Chemistry

September 16

4:00 pm

Network Phases in Block Polymers

September 23

4:00 pm

Crystal Engineering in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Opportunities for Further Innovation

September 30

4:00 pm

Flow, Structure, and Motion Correlation in Nearly-jammed Suspensions

October 07

4:00 pm

Selective Ion Transport in Hydration-limited Sub-nm Pores of Polymer Membranes

October 14

4:00 pm

Material Chemistry Approaches to the Design of Electrocatalyst for Sustainability

Faculty

José Avalos

Clifford Brangwynne

Mark Brynildsen

Jonathan Conway

Emily Davidson

Pablo Debenedetti

Portrait of Dimitrios Fraggedakis

Dimitrios Fraggedakis

David Graves

Jerelle Joseph

A. James Link

Lynn Loo

Marcella Lusardi

Christos Maravelias

Celeste Nelson

Portrait of Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

Rodney Priestley

Portrait of Richard A. Register

Richard A. Register

Portrait of Andrew Rosen

Andrew S. Rosen

Michele L. Sarazen

Charles Schroeder portrait

Charles Schroeder III

Sankaran Sundaresan

Jean Tom

Michael A. Webb