Rick Register, MBA, PhD

1987 Hertz Fellow
Richard Register
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Richard A. Register is a Eugene Higgins Professor and director of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.

Register studies the underlying structure of complex materials with a focus on exploring how those structures give rise to desired engineering properties such as flexibility or strength. He pioneered a fabrication method, known as block copolymer lithography, that has allowed engineers to shrink electronic circuits to vanishingly small scales.

Register served two terms as chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton. He was part of the research team that secured funding for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), supported since 1994 by the National Science Foundation, and previously served as PCCM director.

Graduate Studies

University of Wisconsin
Chemical Engineering
Ionomer Morphology Probed by Small-Angle Scattering

Undergraduate Studies

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Awards

2018, Distinguished Teacher Award, Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science
2014, Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2012, Fellow, American Chemical Society
2008, Graduate Mentoring Award, Princeton University
2002, Charles M.A. Stine Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2001, Fellow, American Physical Society
1992, Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
1992, Unilever Award, American Chemical Society