Jill Millstone

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Jill Millstone
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University
Northwestern University
Known forNanoparticle synthesis
Metal ligand chemistry
Scientific career
Institutions University of Pittsburgh

Jill Millstone is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on metal-ligand chemistry in nanoparticle synthesis. She is the American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer for 2018.

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Early life and education

Millstone earned her bachelor's in chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. [1] [2] She earned a PhD in materials chemistry at Northwestern University, working with Chad Mirkin. [1] She was awarded the Northwestern University graduate school presidential fellowship. [3]

Research and career

Millstone worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Jean Fréchet and Paul Alivisatos at University of California, Berkeley. [1] She was appointed to the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, earning a National Science Foundation career award. [1] [4]

In 2013 she developed nanoscale alloys that emitted so much near-infrared light they could be used in to visualise cells. [5] Millstone uses small organic molecules to hold together metallic nanoparticles. [5] Millstone's lab concentrates on the chemical synthesis of multifunctional nanoparticles and techniques to study their structural-property relationships. [6] They work on nanoparticle colloidal arrays and their mechanochemistry. [3] They use nuclear magnetic resonance, photoemission spectroscopy and electron microscopy. [7] She won the 2015 Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid & Surfactant Science. [8]

In June 2018 Millstone was announced the 2018 American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer. [9] [1] She won the University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Research Award. [10] She is an associate editor at ACS Nano . [11] [12]

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