Engineering for Human Health Highlighted in Princeton Alumni Weekly
The January 18 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, mailed to all Princeton alumni, carried as an insert the Winter 2012 issue of the EQuad News, dedicated to “Exploring the Intersection between Engineering and Health”, in which several CBE faculty members were prominently featured.
Priestley Named Air Force Young Investigator
Rodney Priestley has just been named an Air Force Young Investigator, for his work on Characterization of Nanostructured Polymer Films.
Debenedetti and Russel Named AAAS Fellows
Pablo Debenedetti and William Russel were recently named Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in the AAAS’ Section on Engineering.
Exploiting the Carbon Flatland
The January 2012 issue of Nature Materials reports on the expanding number of graphene-related patents. A table of the "Top 10 ranking of university-related inventors" puts Professors Ilhan Aksay and Robert Prud'homme at numbers 4 and 8, respectively, in the number of patents filed.
Brangwynne Interviewed by Science Magazine
The November 25 issue of Science magazine contains a segment, entitled “How Does the Cell Position Its Proteins?”, with excerpts from an interview with Clifford Brangwynne.
Graphene Moves Toward Applications
The November 21, 2011, issue of Chemical & Engineering News reports on the the large scale production of graphene, its use in conductive inks and composites, and the current state of research into the fundamental properties of graphene and its potential contribution to advanced electronics.
Double-Crystalline Block Copolymers on the Cover of Macromolecules
CBE graduate student Sheng Li and Professor Rick Register, studying materials synthesized by alumna Sasha Myers *08, have recently uncovered an unexpectedly broad range of nanoscale structures in polymers containing chemically dissimilar crystallizable blocks.
Carter Delivers Hofmann Lecture
The German Chemical Society selected Emily Carter, director of Princeton's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, to give its biennial August Wilhelm Hofmann lecture, which she delivered in Bremen, Germany, on Sept. 4.
ZEOMICS: Zeolite Characterization Tool Featured on Princeton's Aspire Blog
A computational approach for characterizing the microporous networks of zeolites has been developed by graduate student Eric First in collaboration with post-doctoral fellow Dr. Chrysanthos Gounaris, Prof. James Wei, and Prof. Christodoulos Floudas in the Computer-Aided Systems…
TiO2-Graphene Particles cited as "Miniscule Particles with Massive Potentials"
An article on TiO2-graphene nanocomposites has been cited as "What's Hot in Chemistry" by Science Watch. The article "Self-Assembled TiO2-Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures for Enhanced Li-ion Insertion" appears in the journal ACS Nano and describes the synthesis of titanium dioxide-graphene hybrid composites formed under mild, low temperature conditions.
