Professor Younan Xia's Academic Presentation
Date：May 21st, 10:00-12:00 AM
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Three Decades of Research in Nanomaterials: From Fundamental Studies to Commercial Applications
Younan Xia
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
E-mail: younan.xia@bme.gatech.edu
Nanomaterials have found widespread use in many applications, including photonics, electronics, catalysis, energy conversion, sensing, imaging, and medicine. For almost three decades, my research group has been working diligently to develop chemical methods for the synthesis and fabrication of novel nanomaterials with controlled properties. Some of these nanomaterials have been successfully commercialized. In this talk, I will briefly review our journey into this exciting field of research. Specifically, I want to illustrate how a simple idea driven by curiosity was able to enable a productive career for almost three decades. I will also discuss some of the recent developments, with a focus on the rational design and controlled synthesis of various types of nanomaterials for catalysis, fuel cell technology, drug delivery, and cancer theranostics. If time allows, I will discuss how to scale up the synthesis of these nanomaterials without losing control to produce samples with the quality, quantity, and reproducibility needed for a systematic study of their fundamental properties as a function of size, shape, and internal structure, and for the exploration of translational/commercial applications.
Younan Xia is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987, M.S. degree in chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with Alan G. MacDiarmid) in 1993, and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with George M. Whitesides) in 1996. His group invented many nanomaterials with well-controlled properties for use in applications related to plasmonics, electronics, display, catalysis, energy conversion, controlled release, nanomedicine, and regenerative medicine. For example, the silver nanowires invented by his group has found use in commercial production of flexible, transparent, and conductive coatings pivotal to applications such as touchscreen display, flexible electronics, and photovoltaics. His technology on the fabrication of aligned nanofibers has been commercialized for multiple clinical products related to regenerative medicine, including those for the management of surgical and trauma wounds, along with pressure, diabetic, venous, and chronic vascular ulcers. Xia has co-authored more than 880 publications in peer-reviewed journals, together with a total citation of over 200,000 and an h-index of 218. He has been named a Top 10 Chemist and Materials Scientist worldwide based on the number of citations per publication. He has received a number of awards, including ACS National Award for Creative Invention (2023), MRS Medal (2017), ACS National Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2013), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006), and NSF CAREER (2000).
More information can be found at http://www.nanocages.com.
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夏幼南教授学术报告活动
为拓展学术视野，增进学术交流，特邀请美国佐治亚理工学院，国际知名教授夏幼南来我校开展学术报告。有关事项通知如下:
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纳米材料研究：从基础研究到商业应用
夏幼南
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
E-mail: younan.xia@bme.gatech.edu
纳米材料在许多应用领域中有了广泛的应用，包括光子学、电子学、催化、能量转换、传感、成像和医学。近三十年来，我的研究小组一直在努力致力于开发用于合成和制造具有控制特性的新型纳米材料的化学方法。其中一些纳米材料已经成功地商业化了。在这次演讲中，我将简要回顾一下我们进入这个令人兴奋的研究领域的旅程。具体来说，我想说明一个由好奇心驱动的简单想法是如何能够成为近30年的职业。我还将讨论一些最近的发展，重点是合理设计和控制合成各种类型的纳米材料，用于催化、燃料电池技术、药物传递和癌症治疗。
夏幼南教授，美国佐治亚理工学院Brock Family Chair及Georgia Rearch Alliance (GRA)杰出学者。1987年他在中国科技大学（USTC）化学物理专业收到了理学学士学位，1993年在宾夕法尼亚大学获得化学博士学位（与Alan G. MacDiarmid合作），1996年在哈佛大学获得物理化学博士学位（与George M. Whitesides合作）。他的团队发明了许多具有良好控制特性的纳米材料，用于与等离子体、电子、显示、催化、能量转换、控释、纳米医学和再生医学相关的应用。例如，他的团队发明的银纳米线在柔性、透明和导电涂料的商业生产中得到了应用。这些涂料对触摸屏显示、柔性电子和光电等应用至关重要。他对准纳米纤维的制造技术已经用于与再生医学相关的多种临床产品，包括手术和创伤伤口，以及压力、糖尿病、静脉和慢性血管溃疡的管理。夏幼南教授在同行评议期刊上发表了880多篇论文，共被引用20万篇，h因子高达218。根据每篇文章的被引用次数，他被评为全球前十化学家和材料科学家。夏幼南教授还获得了包括ACS国家创意发明奖（2023年）、美国材料学会奖章（2017年）、ACS国家材料化学奖（2013年）、美国医疗卫生总署开拓者奖（2006年）和美国国家科学基金会职业成就奖（2000年）在内的许多奖项。
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