报告题目：Three Decades of Nanomaterial Research: From Fundamental Studies to Commercial Applications
时间：2025年11月24日15：00-16：30
报告地点：东校区会议中心学术报告厅
主讲人：Younan Xia
报告摘要：
Nanomaterials have found widespread use in a variety of 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 also been successfully commercialized. In this talk, I will briefly review my 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.
主讲人简介：
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 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 a myriad of nanomaterials with well-controlled properties for applications in plasmonics, electronics, display, catalysis, energy conversion, cancer theranostics, and regenerative medicine. As an example, the silver nanowires invented by his group has been commercialized for the manufacturing of flexible, transparent, and conductive coatings used in applications such as touchscreen display, flexible electronics, and photovoltaics. Xia has co-authored over 900 publications and patents, together with a total citation of more than 205,000 and an h-index of 222. He was ranked a Top 10 Chemist and Materials Scientist in the world based on the number of citations per publication. He has received a number of awards, including the Pauling Medal (2024), 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.