David B. Graves, an expert in plasma chemistry, has won the 2025 Plasma Chemistry Award from the International Plasma Chemistry Society (IPCS). 

Graves, a professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been recognized for his lifetime contributions to the field of plasma chemistry…

To stay healthy, plants balance the energy they put into growing with the amount they use to defend against harmful bacteria. The mechanisms behind this equilibrium have largely remained mysterious.

Now, engineers at Princeton have found an answer in an unexpected place: the harmless, or sometimes beneficial, bacteria that cluster around…

Princeton engineers have developed an easily scalable 3D printing technique to manufacture soft plastics with programmed stretchiness and flexibility that are also recyclable and inexpensive—qualities not typically combined in commercially manufactured materials.

In…

Michele Sarazen, an expert in catalysis and green chemistry, has won the 2025 Augustine Award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (ORCS). 

The award recognizes early career engineers and scientists who have made significant contributions to the field. It is named for Robert Augustine, a contributing member of…

Existing methods rely on equations that use cumbersome mathematical adjustments for each temperature change — painstaking work that costs time, computational resources and money. The adjustments also tend to lack physical justification, according to the researchers. 

The new approach eliminates the need for all the adjustments,…

When this year’s Nobel Prize in physics went to Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton’s John Hopfield for their work on the foundations of modern artificial intelligence, the Nobel committee detailed clear examples of how the new technology has advanced science and technology across many fields. 

Left alone, the toy robots will skitter mindlessly across a tabletop and amuse small children and cats. But when engineers at Princeton paired the small toys with a flexible tether, the bots developed remarkable abilities. They explored enclosed spaces, solved mazes with ease, and even rounded up loose objects into patterns.

“We wanted to…

Nelson, the Wilke Family Professor in Bioengineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering, seeks to answer fundamental questions about the architecture of living tissues and organs. How are…

The annual event, formerly known as the graduate student symposium, was renamed in honor of Russel, a former professor of chemical engineering and dean of the Graduate School, who died in 2023. Graduate alumnus Udit Batra, who is president and CEO of Waters Corporation, made the event possible through a gift in honor of Russel, his Ph.D…

Computational materials and modeling expert Michael Webb has won an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in computational chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS), recognizing his efforts to combine machine learning and molecular simulation to discover new materials.