Stache Lab

Check out our first episode of Polymers Unchained - a new podcast demystifying the world of plastics! Download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Buzzsprout. bit.ly/3Am2GDe #realtimechem #Sustainability #polymerchem 🌎🧪

Congratulations Erik!!! We are so proud of you and excited to see all you accomplish in the future!!!

Erik Medina, a chemistry major from Miami, has been named the Princeton Class of 2025 valedictorian. Rosie Eden, a classics major from Scottsdale, Arizona, has been selected as the salutatorian. bit.ly/3GvmV4k

@stache_lab & Hanning Jiang from @PrincetonChem Feature in an interview about their development of a photothermal method using carbon black to efficiently depolymerize polystyrene. engineeringness.com/photothermal-p… #PlasticRecycling #Sustainability #GreenChemistry

Researchers at @PrincetonChems @stache_lab , led by Erin Stache, with co-authors Hanning Jiang & Erik Medina announce discovery. engineeringness.com/breakthrough-i… #Recycling #Plastics #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #ChemicalEngineering #Innovation

Did you see this First Reaction in ACS Central Science? ☀️ Hyun Suk Wang and Athina Anastasaki discuss the use of sunlight in the degradation of polystyrene☀️➡️ go.acs.org/cel #LoveRecylcingPolymers 💖♻️

The @Stache_Lab has discovered that a black pigment present in many plastics drives depolymerization. Their latest two papers, in @ACSPublications and @J_A_C_S, showcase the potential. Congrats Hanning, Sewon, Liat, Erik, Erin! Enjoy our feature: bit.ly/3PVs4nM

@ACSCentSci @AthinaAnastasa1 Thanks to @AthinaAnastasa1 and team for the highlight of our work!!

Tackling Waste Polystyrene with Sunlight NEW #FirstReactions by @AthinaAnastasa1 & team discussing work by @stache_lab go.acs.org/cdD Read it here: go.acs.org/cdC

My lab's next paper is out @angew_chem! Disorder activates graphitic carbon for echem rxns—but can we distinguish it in situ? Varying disorder shows different electric-field IR responses! w/ Ry, Ben & calculations from Arpan @GalliGroup 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Really proud and happy to share this preprint with the community. It is the culmination of years of hard work by a great team of students and postdocs. Congrats to all involved in this project and in prior stepping stones!

We are thrilled to share that @MarissaWeichman has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for our group's ongoing work in gas- and solution-phase molecular polaritons! Congratulations Marissa! @PrincetonChem whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

Congrats to Hanning and Erik on this great work!! Special shoutout to Erik on his first ever publication!! And RIP rubber ducky.

Special holiday podcast up now! Take a listen while you’re traveling or relaxing! We talk about plastics that put the magic in the holidays buzzsprout.com/admin/2412255/…

New process recycles black plastics using sunlight: Carbon black pigment helps drive recycling of black polystyrene. cen.acs.org/environment/re… .

Congratulations Erin Stache of the @Stache_Lab, named a Marion Milligan Mason for Women in the Chemical Sciences awardee by the @aaas. Whoo hoo, Erin! Read about it here: bit.ly/3ZXUjrG

It's an honor to announce that my group is 1 of 4 recipients of the AAAS Marion Milligan Mason Award 2025 along with my colleague @CalabreseLab (CEMS #UMNProud), @stache_lab, and @GraceGDHan What a cool community to be a part of! Learn more here: aaas.org/news/four-chem…

Recycling of Post-Consumer Waste Polystyrene Using Commercial Plastic Additives NEW #ASAP by @stache_lab Read it here: go.acs.org/bZ2

Red-Light-Induced Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer Catalysis by Tuning the Axial Coordination of Cobyrinate | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Princeton @PrincetonChem @stache_lab #RedLight #LigandtoMetal #Transfer #Catalysis #Cobyrinate pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Congratulations to Sewon, Hanning, and Liat on their great work! @stache_lab

To learn more, read our latest work on recycling post-consumer polystyrene plastic! @ACSCentSci @PrincetonChem pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

Check out our new work for recycling waste #plastic ! #PlasticPollution #Sustainability #realtimechem