Slimy, hard-to-clean bacterial mats called biofilms cause problems ranging from medical infections to clogged drains and fouled industrial equipment. Now, researchers at Princeton have found a way to cleanly and completely peel off these notorious sludges.

By looking at the films from a mechanical engineering perspective, as well as a…

By shifting a fundamental property of computation, Princeton researchers have built a new type of computer chip that boosts the performance and slashes the energy demands of systems used for artificial intelligence.

The chip, which works with standard programming languages, could be particularly useful on phones, watches or other…

Researchers at Princeton and MIT have found a way to save big on power consumption for data centers while making a key electronic component much smaller.

The component, called a power converter, changes the flow of electricity to fit the needs of individual computer parts. All computers require converters to supply power, but the…

It’s often easy to imagine balloons soaring or butterflies fluttering across a still image, but realizing this vision through computer animation is easier said than done. Now, a team of researchers has developed a new tool that makes animating such images much simpler.

The tool is designed to…

In an initiative to boost collaborations on subjects too new to fit into existing departments and centers, the School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a program to fund small, cross-disciplinary groups of researchers called Focused Research Teams.

The school has named…

The internet gives people worldwide access to applications and services, but in many cases, internet traffic passes through a few dominant countries, according to new research from Princeton University.

Following the 2013 revelations of U.S. government surveillance, officials from several…

Diamonds are prized for their purity, but their flaws might hold the key to a new type of highly secure communications.

Princeton University researchers are using synthetic diamonds to help create a communication network that relies on a property of subatomic particles known as their quantum state. Researchers believe such quantum…

When tiny strands of flexible material are forced through a syringe, they produce a highly useful material known as a hydrogel. These injectable hydrogels are similar to living tissues.

The Spherical Motion Average Radiant Temperature (SMART) sensor designed by Princeton Assistant Professor Forrest Meggers and his team is a simple, cost-effective device that can quickly and accurately measure the surface temperature at multiple locations in a room, creating a three-dimensional picture of the radiant heat and cooling sources.

An international team of Princeton and other researchers has made advances in organic semiconductors, a class of materials prized for their applications in emerging technologies such as flexible electronics, solar energy conversion and color displays for smartphones and televisions.