The Stache Lab initiates a podcast on the provenance, recyclability, and chemistry of plastic. Called “Polymers Unchained,” the podcast will demystify all matters plastic with background, expert discussions, guests, and general information for the average listener from high school on up.

Today a fourth-year in the Knowles Lab, Alberto Castanedo believes in the value of the tough questions that helped bring him to Princeton Chemistry. Enjoy his take on graduate school.

A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University’s Class of 2003, Dincă has made pioneering contributions to our understanding of the properties of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, highly porous materials that show promise in energy and environmental applications.

The Schoop Lab has found a method to access flat bands in kagome lattice materials with a process nearly as simple as flicking on a laboratory light, but with broad ramifications for tapping the renewed interest in these systems.

Marking a watershed acquisition, the Department’s new ssNMR instrument is fully installed at Frick Lab and ready for researchers across campus and regionally.

Backed by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Weichman Lab will provide benchmarks to interpret data from NASA’s infrared space telescopes and identify new classes of molecules formed in space.