Younan Xia selected as MRS Medalist for shape-controlled synthesis
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Younan Xia selected as MRS Medalist for shapecontrolled synthesis
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ounan Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology, has received the 2017 Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal “for seminal contributions to shapecontrolled synthesis of metal nanocrystals with a major impact on catalysis, plasmonics and biomedicine.” Xia will be recognized during the Awards Ceremony at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. Xia holds the Brock Family Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine position at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1987, his MS degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, and his PhD
degree from Harvard in 1996. His group has invented a myriad of nanomaterials for applications in catalysis, plasmonics, electronics, display, energy, and medicine. His technology on silver nanowires has been commercialized for the fabrication of flexible, transparent, and conductive films central to touchscreen display and flexible electronics. Xia has co-authored more than 700 publications. He has been named by Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters as one of the Top 10 Chemists and Materials Scientists in the world. He has also received many prestigious awards, including the ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials, NIH Director’s
James A. Warren to present The Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Materials Science address
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ames A. Warren, Director of the Materials Genome Program in the Material Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will give the talk, “The Materials Genome Initiative and Artificial Intelligence” at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. After receiving his PhD degree in theoretical physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which was
preceded by an AB degree (also in physics) from Dartmouth College, Warren took a position as a National Research Council postdoctoral researcher in the Metallurgy Division at NIST. In 1995, with three other junior NIST staff members, he co-founded the NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, which he has directed since 2001. From 2005 to 2013, he was the leader of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group.
Pioneer Award, and NSF Early Career Development Award. In his presentation, Xia will discuss how to address the urgent need to maximize the utilization efficiency of noble metals (some of the least abundant elements in the Earth’s crust) and thus attain affordable and sustainable products. One approach is based on the development of hollow nanocrystals with well-defined and controllable facets, while their walls are kept below five atomic layers (or 1 nm) in thickness. He will start with a brief introduction to two methods that have been developed for the production of such nanomaterials, with the first involving layer-by-layer atomic deposition followed by etching, and the second involving galvanic replacement with a sacrificial template. Xia will then showcase some remarkable properties and appli
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