Michael Graetzel to Give Plenary Address at 2008 MRS Spring Meeting
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Michael Graetzel to Give Plenary Address at 2008 MRS Spring Meeting Michael Graetzel of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne will give the plenary address at the 2008 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting to be held March 24–28 in San Francisco. The plenary session will be held Monday, March 24, at 7:00 p.m. Graetzel’s topic will be “Power from the Sun–The Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells.” Graetzel received his PhD degree from the Technical University Berlin. As a professor at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces within the Institute of Chemical Science and Engineering Faculty of Basic Science. In the course of his research, Graetzel has discovered a new type of solar cell
Michael Graetzel based on dye-sensitized mesoscopic oxide particles, and pioneered the use of nano-
materials in energy conversion devices. Author of over 600 publications, two books, and the inventor of approximately 50 patents, Graetzel ranks amongst the most highly cited scientists in the world. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the 2007 Harvey Prize, the European Millennium Innovation Award, the ENi-Italgas Prize, the Dutch Havinga Medal, and the Faraday Medal of the British Royal Society of Chemistry. He has also received honorary doctorate degrees from the Universities of Delft, Uppsala, and Turin. He is a member of the Swiss Chemical Society and was elected an honorary member of the Société Vaudoise de Sciences Naturelles.
Michael Strano Named 2008 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Michael Strano, Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named the 2008 Materials Research Society Out standing Young Investigator. He is cited for “innovative work on single walled carbon nanotube chemical modifications, both fundamental and applied, and for pioneering a new class of near infrared sensor architectures based upon chemically induced optical modulation of carbon nanotubes.” He will deliver an award talk at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Strano and his group have shown that it is possible to construct a new class of near infrared, nanotube-based optical sensors from single-walled carbon nanotubes, by decorating the surface with biorecognition ligands, and connecting the binding at the ligand with ferricyanide mediator chemistry. By controlling the shuttling of electrons in and out of nanotube systems, Strano’s research group has created novel electronic and optical devices. For example, his group has fabricated and demonstrated an Hg2+ ion sensor, capable of near infrared query
Michael Strano from within living cells. They have also used DNA-decorated single-walled nanotubes as a platform to observe unique molecular transformations in the DNA while adsorbed to the nanotube. Although best known internationally for his advances in the applications field, Strano has pioneered the study of fundamental mechanisms of carbon nanotu
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