Professor and student work together in lab setting.

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.

News

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

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

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Initiative aims to make Princeton a leader in AI accelerated engineering

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Researchers bend DNA strands with light, revealing a new way to study the genome

Floating seaweed in the ocean.

Transforming troublesome seaweed into a feedstock of the future

False color rendering of turbulent flow.

Better mixing leads to faster reactions for key chemicals

Events

November 13

4:00 pm

A Theory of Entropic Bonding in Colloidal Crystals

November 14

4:00 pm

Assembly Engineering of Complex Particle Systems

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

Faculty

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