Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Fall Seminar Series: Younan Xia

Description

Younan Xia, a professor and chair in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology, will give a talk titled "Putting Chemistry to Work for Nano, Energy, and Medicine" for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Xia is also Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine.

Abstract:

Nanomaterials have found widespread use in many applications, including photonics, electronics, catalysis, energy conversion, sensing, imaging, and medicine. Chemistry plays a central role in all these developments. For more than 25 years, we have been working diligently to develop chemical methods for synthesizing novel nanomaterials with well-controlled properties. In this talk, I will briefly 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. At the end, 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 of translational/industrial applications.