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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Two small rectangular robots connected by a flexible tether; three researchers watch in background. — 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

Card with words: Graduate Student Award for Excellence.

Award for Excellence honors graduate student achievement

Man speaks near podium while pointing at a scientific graphics on a screen. — 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

false color microscope image of a cell nucleus with chromosomes highlighted. — 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 seaweed in the ocean. — Floating Sargassum in Puerto Rico (photo courtesy of Loretta Roberson of Marine Biological Laboratory).

Transforming troublesome seaweed into a feedstock of the future

False color rendering of turbulent flow. — 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

November 20

4:00 pm

Theories of Activated Molecular and Ion Transport in Polymer Melts, Networks and Glasses

December 11

4:00 pm

Understanding and Engineering Catalytic Materials Using Nanocrystal Precursors

January 23

4:00 pm

Single-atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood in Silico

José Avalos

Clifford Brangwynne

Pierre-Thomas Brun

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

Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

Rodney Priestley

Richard A. Register

Portrait of Andrew Rosen

Andrew S. Rosen

Michele L. Sarazen

Sankaran Sundaresan

Michael A. Webb