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New research from Princeton demonstrates how membranes made from next-gen materials called MXenes show promise when separating ions and other compounds from complex solutions. 🧪⚛️

This and more news in our November newsletter.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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November newsletter highlights:
• Hydrogen from wastewater
• MXenes show promise
• New 2025 Annual Report is out – and more
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November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Fantastic talk (with a fantastic crowd) today at the Andlinger Center! Our speaker Andres Clarens gave a rousing talk on navigating university research on industrial decarbonization in these uncertain policy times.

Read more about his talk here: bit.ly/4pcuez1
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November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Congratulations to Andlinger Center faculty and researchers @jessejenkins.bsky.social, Chris Greig, and Eric Larson for being commended for outstanding teaching at Princeton Engineering.

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Princeton Engineering - Faculty commended for outstanding teaching
Dean Andrew Houck and Vice Dean Gabriele Villarini are proud to recognize the following faculty for their outstanding teaching during the spring 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Join us this Thursday, Nov 13 for "The Hard Stuff: University Research on Industrial Decarbonization in an Uncertain Policy Era" – a talk by Andrés Clarens of the UVA Environmental Institute.

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A seminar poster for "The Hard Stuff: University Research on Industrial Decarbonization in an Uncertain Policy Era" featuring Andrés Clarens, held November 13 at Princeton University.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Researchers at Princeton are developing MXene membranes: ultra-thin, electrically conductive, water-loving materials to separate ions more efficiently.

This means more efficient desalination, battery recycling, waste cleanup, and more sustainable water systems.

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New materials make high-performance membranes the filters of the future
Princeton researchers demonstrate the potential of MXenes, a class of water-loving, single-layer materials with high electrical conductivity, for separating ions and compounds from complex solutions.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Today is the Andlinger Center's 2025 Annual Meeting. This year's theme: Strategies for Circularity: Prospects and Challenges. How do we close the loop on the traditional “take-make-dispose” linear economic model?

We'll see you in Maeder Hall! bit.ly/4h0d5oZ
The Andlinger Center 2025 Annual Meeting – Strategies for Circularity: Prospects and Challenges poster showing a trio of circular arrows and a plastics recycling process behind it.
October 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Wastewater could power the hydrogen economy. Researchers at Princeton University found that treated wastewater—once acidified—can replace ultrapure water in hydrogen electrolysis, cutting water treatment costs by ~47% and enabling greener hydrogen for hard-to-electrify industries. 🧪

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Dirty water boosts prospects for clean hydrogen
Wastewater can replace clean water as a source for hydrogen production, eliminating a major drawback to hydrogen fuel and reducing water treatment costs by up to 47%, according to new research from Pr...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Researchers in Kelsey Hatzell’s lab at Princeton are developing MXene membranes — ultra-thin, electrically conductive, water-loving materials — to separate ions more efficiently even in messy, real-world solutions. 🧪

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New materials make high-performance membranes the filters of the future
Princeton researchers demonstrate the potential of MXenes, a class of water-loving, single-layer materials with high electrical conductivity, for separating ions and compounds from complex solutions.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The Fund for Energy Research with Corporate Partners exemplifies the University's commitment to pioneering sustainable energy solutions by supporting faculty-led projects that bridge academia and industry.

Read this and more in our October newsletter.

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October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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New AI tech developed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and Princeton continues to revolutionize fusion energy. Diag2Diag can fill in missing sensor data with synthetic insights that aligns with real-world data and is more detailed than what an actual sensor could provide.

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New AI enhances the view inside fusion energy systems
A new AI, known as Diag2Diag, can fill in missing sensor data for fusion systems, offering even more detail than the real-world sensor could have provided.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Our Annual Meeting on Oct 30th will explore opportunities and challenges for implementing circular approaches, with the goal of identifying priorities for research, policy, and industry for a more sustainable and resource-efficient future.

Register today: acee.princeton.edu/2025-annual-...
2025 Annual Meeting | Andlinger Center
Join leading experts at the Andlinger Center's 2024 Annual Meeting on October 29 at Princeton University's Maeder Auditorium.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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A new study published in Psychological Science, by @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social from @acee.princeton.edu, highlights how people around the world often overestimate climate skepticism and presents ways to push back on this misperception. #ClimateChange
Pro-Climate Sentiments Are More Common Than You Think
A new study highlights how people around the world often overestimate climate skepticism and presents ways to push back on this misperception.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Happy to announce that @salibaenergy.bsky.social has joined the Andlinger Center as a Visiting Fellow! Saliba aims to improve the long-term stability and sustainability of high-performance #perovskite #solar cells and tandem technologies through advanced diagnostics. bit.ly/3ImFvwz
Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow to tackle stability issues in high-performance solar cells
Michael Saliba has joined the Andlinger Center as a Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow to collaborate on improving the long-term stability and sustainability of high-performance perovskite solar cel...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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September newsletter highlights:
• New visiting fellow to improve perovskite solar cells and tandem technologies
• Net-Zero Korea announced
• Annual Meeting registration opens
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September 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Today at 12:15pm: Mike Schmidt, founding Director of the CHIPS Program Office, shares lessons from inside the process: how industrial policy is crafted, how it’s executed, and what it takes to make it endure.

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Design, Execution, and Political Economy: Lessons from the CHIPS Act for the Future of Industrial Policy
The CHIPS and Science Act has catalyzed more than $500 billion in planned semiconductor investment, with its design and implementation spanning three presidential administrations. In this seminar, Mik...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Our upcoming Highlight Seminar explains how HEI supports independent research on emerging energy technologies and alternative fuels' impact on human health, using a trusted science-based model to inform policy and address potential health risks from pollution.

Join us next week!
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Join us for our first Highlight Seminar of the semester. Donna Vorhees of Health Effects Institute will give a talk entitled "Impartial Science in an Era of Skepticism: Energy and Health Research". Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025.

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Highlight Seminar Series flyer featuring Donna Vorhees of Health Effects Institute for a talk entitled "Impartial Science in an Era of Skepticism: Energy and Health Research".
September 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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How do we feed the world without frying it? How do we fill nearly 10 billion bellies by 2050 without tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds?
Author Michael Grunwald discusses these in his new book. Join us and our friends at C-PREE on Sept 8th!

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Flyer for a book talk: We are eating the Earth: The race to fix our food system and save our climate" featuring author Michael Grunwald and Tim Searchinger.
September 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Join us for our first Highlight Seminar of the semester. Donna Vorhees of Health Effects Institute will give a talk entitled "Impartial Science in an Era of Skepticism: Energy and Health Research". Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025.

Info: bit.ly/3UXl5x8
Highlight Seminar Series flyer featuring Donna Vorhees of Health Effects Institute for a talk entitled "Impartial Science in an Era of Skepticism: Energy and Health Research".
September 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🚀 Starting my 6-month journey as Visiting Fellow at the Andlinger Center @acee.princeton.edu at Princeton.
Exploring the fundamentals of #perovskite optoelectronics with world-leading colleagues aiming for next-generation #solar cells and beyond☀️

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August 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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KAIST and AndlingerCenter (@acee.princeton.edu) launched Net-Zero Korea to accelerate Korea’s #energy transition.

The project is powered by the Princeton’s Net-Zero America study framework, and supported by Google and industry partners.

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KAIST and the Andlinger Center at Princeton University Announce Net-Zero Korea Study to Accelerate Korea’s Energy Transition
Net-Zero Korea will increase Korean capacity for energy-system transition modeling through collaboration between the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Andlinger Center...
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August 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Bringing over 16 years of experience as a researcher and White House top scientist for the bioeconomy, Sarah Glaven has joined the Andlinger Center as a Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow to chart a sustainable future for the biomanufacturing industry.

Announcement: bit.ly/4ff5WQS
Biotechnologist Sarah Glaven joins Andlinger Center as Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow to scale sustainable biomanufacturing
Sarah Glaven has joined the Andlinger Center as a Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow to chart a sustainable future for the biomanufacturing industry.
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August 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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In this Q&A, @weipengclimate.bsky.social and group members @carlacamposm.bsky.social and Jinyu Shiwang explain their work to model the air pollution and health impacts of the energy transition.

“We cannot simply measure success in terms of tons of CO2 avoided,” said Campos Morales.

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Making the clean energy transition a win-win for climate and health
In a Q&A, Wei Peng and members of her group synthesize their decade-long work to model the air pollution and health impacts of the clean energy transition.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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At the Andlinger Center’s 12th annual E-ffiliates Retreat in June, experts from across academia, industry, NGOs, and the public sector discussed strategies for navigating the energy transition in the face of lagging global progress.

Story: bit.ly/46rn1EX
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July 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), a once-overlooked technology that taps into the Earth’s heat to generate electricity, could supply up to 20% of the electricity in the United States by 2050, according to a new #PrincetonU analysis led by
@jessejenkins.bsky.social. 🧪

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Enhanced geothermal systems surfaces as a serious clean energy contender
Enhanced geothermal could provide up to 20% of U.S. electricity by 2050, offering scalable, clean power if costs fall and federal support continues, Princeton study finds.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM