(97e) Growth of Materials at Princeton During the Wei Era

The current materials activities in chemical engineering at Princeton emerged from a longstanding Program in Polymer Materials in the early 1990s to comprise a core component of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials [PCCM], a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center funded in 1994 by the NSF and housed in the Princeton Materials Institute. Early and continuing success with block copolymer nanolithography has since been complemented by control of electrohydrodynamic jets and instabilities for printing on and patterning surfaces, synthesis and alignment of nanoporous silicates, efficient packing of spheres and ellipsoids, and assembly binary colloidal suspensions into planar superlattices. Faculty in chemical engineering continue to play a central role as participants and leaders in the first interdisciplinary institute spanning the sciences and engineering on campus.