Sharon C. Glotzer and Nicholas A. Kotov jointly named MRS Medalists for nanoparticle self-assembly
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factor. This led to a significant advance in ZT to 2.2 at 800 K. For his discoveries, Kanatzidis obtained over 22 patents, and he has over 800 publications. After obtaining a BSc degree from Aristotle University in Greece, Kanatzidis received his PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Iowa in 1984. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University from 1985 to 1987, and moved to Northwestern in
the fall of 2006 from Michigan State University where he was a University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry since 1987. He also holds an appointment at Argonne National Laboratory and is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Solid State Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and MRS. His other honors include the Morley Medal from the American Chemical Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Prize.
Sharon C. Glotzer and Nicholas A. Kotov jointly named MRS Medalists for nanoparticle self-assembly
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he Materials Research Society (MRS) has announced that the 2014 MRS Medal will be shared by a research team from the University of Michigan– Ann Arbor: Sharon C. Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Nicholas A. Kotov, Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering. Glotzer and Kotov are cited for “foundational work elucidating processes of nanoparticle self-assembly.” They will be recognized during the award ceremony at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. Glotzer and Kotov are each distinguished and influential scientists in their own right, yet their collaborative research has made the highest impact on the field of nanoparticle self-assembly. Glotzer provided predictive computer simulations and theoretical insight to explain the definitive experiments conducted by Kotov. Together, they succeeded in explaining almost a dozen different and unexpected self-assembled nanostructures observed by Kotov and they correctly predicted several more, within a single theoretical framework. Common to
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all these structures is the delicate balance of repulsive and attractive forces arising from van der Waals, hydrophobic, electrostatic, and entropic interactions. They demonstrated that subtle changes in the ligand binding density on the surface of the nanoparticle, ligand charge, and even nanoparticle polydispersity can produce profound structural changes in the assemblies. Most recently—through their partnership in developing theory, simulation, and experiment— Glotzer and Kotov predict, and explain, the first self-organized terminal structures comprised of proteins and inorganic nanoparticles. They published their results in the May online edition of Nature Communications. This multidisciplinary partnership is a model for materials research worldwide. Glotzer introduced the concept of patchy particles in Nano Letters in 2004, and followed this with several papers in which these ideas were elaborated. She argued that the many degrees of free
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