Eric Stach

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Eric Andrew Stach is an American materials scientist who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an elected fellow of both the American Physical Society [1] (for "development and application of in-situ and operando methods in materials research using transmission electron microscopy") and the Microscopy Society of America. [2] He was also awarded the Eli F. Burton Award in 2009. [3] He was named a "Highly Cited Researcher" in the newly established Cross-Field category in 2018. [4]

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Education

He earned his B.S. at Duke University in 1992, his M.S. and M.S.E at University of Washington in 1994, his Ph.D. at University of Virginia in 1998, [5] and a Masters of Business Administration from Stony Brook University in 2018.

Research

His interests are materials science and engineering, crystallography, energy storage, heterogeneous catalysis, nanotechnology [6] and he is a specialist in the field of electron microscopy. His highest cited paper "Graphene-based composite materials" [7] has been cited 9570 times, according to Google Scholar. [8]

Publications

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  7. Rodney S. Ruoff Sasha Stankovich, Dmitriy A. Dikin, Geoffrey H. B. Dommett, Kevin M. Kohlhaas, Eric J. Zimney, Eric A. Stach, Richard D. Piner, SonBinh T. Nguyen. Graphene-based composite materials. 442. 282-286. Nature, 2006.
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