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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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Three photos showing a researcher focused on a device with bottles and hoses, another researcher lifts up a flat circular membrane to the light, and a pile of books with a water droplet on the cover.
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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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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J.R. Johnson, vice president, research and development at Avnos comments, “How do you decarbonize transportation? There’s a variety of solutions we have to address. Fuels are still getting us from A to B. Direct Air Capture is a solution to offset these other investments.”
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Connor Roeser (MAE '28) creates controlled setups to study how surfactants stick to different fluids and how they move. An image from his research is featured on the Andlinger Center's annual report. Here he is at our annual meeting's poster session.
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Our keynote speaker, Andre Argenton, the Chief Sustainability Officer and VP of EHS at Dow takes the stage. His talk follows the history of circularity and the opportunities and challenges ahead for sustainability.
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 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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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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Five-panel image showing South Korea, energy storage, lithium batteries, network grid, and recyclable plastics
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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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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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The @acee.princeton.edu collaboration with KAIST to integrate global trade and supply chain impacts into energy transition models is a major step toward actionable climate policy. @weipengclimate.bsky.social leads the newly announced Net-Zero Korea study from the Princeton side.
A portrait of Wei Peng featuring her quote overlayed in text: Integrating our two modeling approaches will build new capabilities relevant for application in many countries, like Korea, where global supply chains and trade are so important to the national economy.
August 28, 2025 at 1:55 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.

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July 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🗓️ New Light summer seminar series welcomes Luo Xu and Tanuj Sen on 7/1. Xu will discuss modeling blackouts in #renewable grids using insights from Hurricane Fiona. Sen will discuss designing #powerelectronics with carbon impact in mind.

Register here: bit.ly/45bJ6GV
New Light: Rising Stars in Energy and the Environment – Andlinger Center Summer Seminar Series featuring Luo Xu and Tanuj Sen.
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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June newsletter highlights:

• Unlocking Australia’s energy transition with collaboration
• 2025 Maeder Fellows advance grid planning and power delivery
• Welcoming our newest summer interns!

Read more & subscribe: bit.ly/4jTfBxh
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June 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The New Light summer seminar series features the Andlinger Center’s Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows and early career researchers. All seminars are in-person only and will be held in the Engineering Quad, Room E219, from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Register here for the June 17th event: bit.ly/45bJ6GV
June 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Last week, we celebrated 11 graduating seniors at the Andlinger Center's Class Day ceremony! From new technologies for carbon capture to supply chain planning for bioenergy in Brazil, our students studied a range of energy and environmental challenges. Congratulations!

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A student and her adviser. A student smiles with an orange gift bag. A student moves to receive his certificate. A student smiles.
June 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Today marks the first day of work for our 32 summer interns, who will spend the next few months collaborating with #PrincetonU faculty and the Andlinger Center's nonprofit partners to investigate topics from sustainable cements to climate adaptation!

More about their projects: bit.ly/4jA2fGf
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June 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Congratulations to @jessedjenkins.com on being awarded the Howard B. Wentz, Jr. Junior Faculty Award from Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science!

More about this year's awardees: bit.ly/4jVV4sF
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May 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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May newsletter highlights:
• A game-changer for critical minerals extraction
• Unpacking an origami-inspired metamaterial
• Summer intern spotlight, featuring Moonshot Missions

Read more & subscribe: bit.ly/4djy987
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May 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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#ICYMI: Princeton Critical Minerals, a startup that grew out of
Z. Jason Ren's lab is upending decades-old approaches for the way the world extracts lithium and other materials, including nitrate and potash.

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Screenshot of Princeton homepage. "Princeton startup tackles soaring demand for lithium and other critical minerals."
May 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Princeton Research Day is turning 10! 🎉✨ Celebrate a decade of groundbreaking discoveries, creative projects, and inspiring stories. Whether you’re presenting or cheering on your peers, join us for a celebration of research and innovation tomorrow May 8! #PrincetonResearchDay
May 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Andlinger Center researchers’ findings on dynamic lifecycle carbon accounting for forest bioenergy appear on this month’s Environmental Science and Technology journal cover.

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Environmental Science and Technology journal cover featuring a schematic of atmospheric carbon lifecycle overlayed on an image of a forest.
April 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Today kicks off the 2025 Earth Science Week theme, “Energy Resources for Our Future”. Chris Greig will speak on how, in the #energy transition, #geoscience professionals will be key to helping us reach #netzero. #EarthDay2025

Hear his full talk: tinyurl.com/4whu5spe
Flyer: The Science of Net Zero Buildings Earth Day Webinar
April 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM