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.
