Kenneth Poeppelmeier

Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
Born	6 October 1949 St Charles, Missouri
Alma mater	University of Missouri, Iowa State University
Known for	Solid-state chemistry, Materials chemistry, Catalysis, crystal growth, nonlinear optical materials
Awards	Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected foreign member (2016) of Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, Elected Honorary Member (2017) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Northwestern University
Academic advisors	John D. Corbett

Kenneth Reinhard Poeppelmeier (born 6 October 1949) is the Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. ^{[1] [2]}

Poeppelmeier completed his bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Missouri in 1971. From 1971 to 1974 he taught chemistry at Samoa College as part of the Peace Corps.

After returning from Samoa, he enrolled at Iowa State University and, in 1978, was awarded a doctorate for his work on reduced scandium halide compounds completed under the direction of John Corbett. After graduation, he joined Exxon Central Research and Development where he studied the synthesis and properties oxygen-deficient perovskites. In 1984, he joined Northwestern University as professor of inorganic chemistry. ^[3]

In 1989, he co-lead the team that was awarded the Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity (STcS), one of the first research centers organized by the National Science Foundation to provide science and engineering opportunities to address complex research problems that required the advantages of scale, skillsets, longer time duration, and equipment. The Center comprised researchers from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Argonne National Laboratory. Poeppelmeier was the Centers Associate Director. ^[4] .From 2010-2020, he held a joint appointment in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory and served as Deputy Division Director for Science. ^[5] From 2012-2023, Poeppelmeier represented Northwestern University on the Governors Board, a group established to operate and coordinate the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an Office of Science Innovation Hub centered at Argonne National Laboratory. ^[6] He was a core member of the Materials Discovery effort associated with identifying multivalent-based energy storage systems. ^[7]

His work at Northwestern has focused on the role of materials synthesis, transport properties, and materials design in the isolation of new compounds ^{[8] [9]} with applications in superconductivity, ^[10] nonlinear optical materials, ^{[11] [12] [13]} catalysis, ^[14] and energy storage. ^{[15] [16] [17]} From 1995-2015, he was the materials editor for the American Chemical Society journal Inorganic Chemistry.

References

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2. "KENNETH R. POEPPELMEIER". Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
3. "Authors Biography for KENNETH R. POEPPELMEIER". Elsevier. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
4. "Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships". NSF. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
5. "Poeppelmeier International Symposium on Solid State Chemistry" (PDF). Flogen. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
6. "Joint Center for Energy Storage Research". Argonne. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
7. Hancock, J.; Griffith, K.; Choi, Y.; Bartel, C.; Lapidus, S.; Vaughey, J.; Ceder, G.; Poeppelmeier, K.R. (2022). "Expanding the Ambient-Pressure Phase Space of CaFe2O4 Type Sodium Post-spinel Host Guest Compounds". ACS Organic & Inorganic Au. 2 (1): 8–22. doi:10.1021/acsorginorgau.1c00019. PMC   9954301 .
8. Sheets, W.C.; Mugnier, E.; Barnabe, A.; Marks, Tobin; Poeppelmeier, K.R. (2006). "Hydrothermal synthesis of delafossite-type oxides" (PDF). Chemistry of Materials. 18 (1): 7–20. doi:10.1021/cm051791c.
9. Kageyama, H.; Hayashi, K.; Maeda, K.; Attfield, J.P.; Hiroi, Z.; Rondinelli, James; Poeppelmeier, K.R. (2018). "Expanding frontiers in materials chemistry and physics with multiple anions". Chemistry of Materials. 28 (1): 17–20. Bibcode:2018NatCo...9..772K. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-02838-4. hdl: 2433/234674 . PMC   5823932 . PMID   29472526.
10. Vaughey, J.T.; Thiel, J.; Hasty, E.; Groenke, D.; Stern, Charlotte; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; Dabrowski, B.; Hinks, D.G.; Mitchell, A.W. (1991). "Synthesis and structure of a new family of cuprate superconductors: LnSr2Cu2GaO7". Chemistry of Materials. 3 (5): 935–940. doi:10.1021/cm00017a032.
11. Gautier, R.; Klingsporn, R.P.; Van Duyne, R.P.; Poeppelmeier, K.R. (2016). "Optical Activity from Racemates". Nature Communications. 9 (6): 772. Bibcode:2016NatMa..15..591G. doi:10.1038/nmat4628.
12. Tran, T.T.; Yu, H.; Rondinelli, James; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; Halasymani, P.S. (2016). "Deep Ultraviolent Non-linear Optical Materials". Chemistry of Materials. 28 (15): 5238–5258. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02366.
13. Halasymani, P.S.; Poeppelmeier, K.R. (1998). "Noncentrosymmetric Oxides". Chemistry of Materials. 10 (10): 2753–2769. doi:10.1021/cm980140w.
14. Lin, Yuyuan; Wu, Zili; Wen, J.; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; Marks, L.D. (2014). "Imaging the Atomic Surface Structures of CeO2 Nanoparticles". NanoLetters. 14 (1): 191–196. Bibcode:2014NanoL..14..191L. doi:10.1021/nl403713b. PMID   24295383.
15. Wan, L.; Incorvati, J.; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; Prendergast, D. (2016). "Building a fast lane for Mg diffusion in α-MoO3 by fluorine doping". Chemistry of Materials. 28 (19): 6900–6908. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02223.
16. Incorvati, J.; Wan, L.; Key, Baris; Zhou, C.; Liao, Chen; Fuoco, L.; Holland, M.; Wang, Hao; Prendergast, D.; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; Vaughey, J.T. (2014). "Reversible Magnesium Intercalation into a Layered Oxyfluoride Cathode". Chemistry of Materials. 28 (1): 17–20. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02746.
17. Sorenson, E.M.; Barry, S.; Jung, H.-K.; Rondinelli, James; Vaughey, J.T.; Poeppelmeier, K.R. (2006). "Three-dimensionally ordered macroporous Li4Ti5O12: effect of wall structure on electrochemical properties". Chemistry of Materials. 128 (2): 482–489. doi:10.1021/cm052203y.