Professor Younan Xia's Academic Presentation
Date：May 21st, 10:00-12:00 AM
Hold place：Tingbiao Jiao Theater
Introduction：
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.
Organizer: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University
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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5月21日 上午10：00-12：00
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焦廷标馆剧院
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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。
夏先生现为美国佐治亚理工学院Brock Family Chair和Georgia Rearch Alliance（GRA）杰出学者。1987年获中国科学技术大学化学物理学士学位，1993年获宾夕法尼亚大学化学硕士学位（师从Alan G. MacDiarmid，诺贝尔化学奖得主），1996年获得哈佛大学物理化学博士学位（师从George M. Whitesides，美国三院院士）。夏先生充分利用交叉科学的机会，大胆而又创新地融汇化学基础研究于新型纳米材料的探索中。研究团队尝试设计各种不同形貌规格的纳米材料，逐步完善纳米材料“设计规则”，建立大规模生产纳米材料的科学平台，从而将“纳米技术”造福于电子、光子、催化、信息储存和药物等各个领域。在Science、Nature、Nat. Mater.、Nat. Nanotechnol.、JACS、Angew、Adv. Mater.等国际顶尖期刊发表学术论文880多篇论文，总引用次数超过20万次，H指数为218。荣获多项重要科技奖项，包括ACS国家创造发明奖（2023年）、MRS奖章（2017年）、ACS材料化学奖（2013年）、NIH院长先锋奖（2006年）和NSF CAREER奖（2000年）、中国优秀科普作品奖等。先后担任Nano Letters副主编，Chem. Rev.、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、Nano Letters、National Science Review等顶级化学、材料类期刊编委。
夏先生是目前最权威、最活跃、最著名的纳米科学家和化学材料学家之一，对国际纳米科技的发展做出了重大贡献，在国际享有盛誉、具有极高的造诣。
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