Armand Paul Alivisatos is a Greek-American etymologist,chemist and academic administrator who has served as the 14th president of the University of Chicago since September 2021. He is a pioneer in nanomaterials development and an authority on the fabrication of nanocrystals and their use in biomedical and renewable energy applications. He was ranked fifth among the world's top 100 chemists for the period 2000–2010 in the list released by Thomson Reuters.
Nanochemistry is an emerging sub-discipline of the chemical and material sciences that deals with the development of new methods for creating nanoscale materials. The term "nanochemistry" was first used by Ozin in 1992 as 'the uses of chemical synthesis to reproducibly afford nanomaterials from the atom "up",contrary to the nanoengineering and nanophysics approach that operates from the bulk "down"'. Nanochemistry focuses on solid-state chemistry that emphasizes synthesis of building blocks that are dependent on size,surface,shape,and defect properties,rather than the actual production of matter. Atomic and molecular properties mainly deal with the degrees of freedom of atoms in the periodic table. However,nanochemistry introduced other degrees of freedom that controls material's behaviors by transformation into solutions. Nanoscale objects exhibit novel material properties,largely as a consequence of their finite small size. Several chemical modifications on nanometer-scaled structures approve size dependent effects.
Thalappil Pradeep is an institute professor and professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is also the Deepak Parekh Chair Professor. In 2020 he received the Padma Shri award for his distinguished work in the field of Science and Technology. He has received the Nikkei Asia Prize (2020),The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) prize (2018),and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2008 by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Louis Eugene Brus is an American chemist,and currently the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots. In 2023,he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Blinking colloidal nanocrystals is a phenomenon observed during studies of single colloidal nanocrystals that show that they randomly turn their photoluminescence on and off even under continuous light illumination. This has also been described as luminescence intermittency. Similar behavior has been observed in crystals made of other materials. For example,porous silicon also exhibits this affect.
Prashant Jain is an Indian-born American scientist and a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign where his research laboratory studies the interaction of light with matter,designs nanoparticle catalysts,and develops methods for mimicking plant photosynthesis. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Chemistry,a TR35 inventor,a Sloan Fellow,a PECASE recipient,a Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby medalist,and a top-cited researcher in chemical sciences.
Delia J. Milliron is the T. Brockett Hudson Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Milliron leads a research team that focuses on developing and studying the properties of new electronic nanomaterials. Her team pursues studies on nanocrystals,nanoscale interfaces,and controlled assemblies of nanocrystals. Her team takes a systematic approach towards elucidating effects that arise at the nanoscale with a special focus on structure-property relationships.
Sara E. Skrabalak is a James H. Rudy Professor at Indiana University. Skrabalak leads a research group in the department of chemistry which focuses on the development of new nanomaterials. She has an adjunct appointment in the department of intelligent systems engineering.
Susan M. Kauzlarich is an American chemist and is presently a distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of California,Davis. At UC Davis,Kauzlarich leads a research group focused on the synthesis and characterization of Zintl phases and nanoclusters with applications in the fields of thermoelectric materials,magnetic resonance imaging,energy storage,opto-electronics,and drug delivery. Kauzlarich has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications and has been awarded several patents. In 2009,Kauzlarich received the annual Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring,which is administered by the National Science Foundation to acknowledge faculty members who raise the membership of minorities,women and disabled students in the science and engineering fields. In January 2022 she became Deputy Editor for the scientific journal,Science Advances. She gave the Edward Herbert Boomer Memorial Lecture of the University of Alberta in 2023.
Perovskite nanocrystals are a class of semiconductor nanocrystals,which exhibit unique characteristics that separate them from traditional quantum dots. Perovskite nanocrystals have an ABX3 composition where A = cesium,methylammonium (MA),or formamidinium (FA);B = lead or tin;and X = chloride,bromide,or iodide.
Emily A. Weiss is the Mark and Nancy Ratner Professor of Chemistry and director of the Photo-Sciences Research Center at Northwestern University. Her research considers the optical and electronic properties of nanostructures,including hybrid organic–inorganic quantum dots. She was a two-time finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
Eran Rabani is an Israeli theoretical chemist. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of California,Berkeley,holding the Glenn T. Seaborg Chair in Physical Chemistry,and at the Tel Aviv University. Rabani serves as the director of The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science,and as a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Xile Hu is a Swiss chemist specialized in catalysis. He is a professor in chemistry at EPFL and leads the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis at the School of Basic Sciences.
Sylvie Roke is a Dutch chemist and physicist specialized in photonics and aqueous systems. As a full professor she holds Julia Jacobi Chair of Photomedicine at EPFL and is the director of the Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics.
Kevin Sivula is a highly cited American chemical engineer and researcher in the field of solar cells. He is a professor of molecular engineering at EPFL and the head of the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Optoelectronic Nanomaterials at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences.
Ester Vázquez Fernández-Pacheco is an expert in carbon nanostructures and sustainable synthesis. She is a full professor at the University of Castilla la Mancha and a group leader at the MSOC Nanochemistry group.
MagalíLingenfelder is an Argentinian chemist who is head of the Max Planck Laboratory for Molecular Nanoscience in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her work looks to control atomic interfaces for energy conversion and antimicrobial surfaces. She was awarded the Max Planck Society Otto Hahn Medal in 2008.
Vivek Vijayrao Polshettiwar is an Indian chemist who is a professor of chemistry at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. His research focuses on advanced nanomaterials and nanocatalysis,particularly for harvesting solar energy and converting carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels. His work is aimed at producing value-added products from CO2 to effectively combat climate change. He was awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry prize for Green Chemistry in 2022. In 2023,he received the Falling Walls Award in Physical Sciences. The following year,in 2024,he was elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc). In 2024,he received Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) award from the President of India.
Efrat Lifshitz is an Israeli chemist at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Solid-State Institute,Technion –Israel Institute of Technology (Technion-IIT). Lifshitz's research is known for pioneering advances in developing and studying low-dimensional semiconductors by exploring the relationship between their optical properties and magnetism.
Nako Nakatsuka is a Japanese researcher and Assistant Professor of Neurotechnology at EPFL. Her research is focused on pioneering translational technologies that directly impact human health. Her research group,the Laboratory of Chemical Nanotechnology (CHEMINA) works at the intersection of chemistry,engineering,and neuroscience to develop innovative strategies to support patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. She was awarded the 2023 Prix Zonta.
