Mark MacLachlan

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Mark J. MacLachlan (born December 27, 1973 ) is a Canadian chemist working in the field of supramolecular chemistry .

Life

MacLachlan was born in Faro, Yukon , and grew up in Quesnel, British Columbia . In 1995 he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of British Columbia . In 1999 he was at the University of Toronto PhD , it was Ian Manners and Geoffrey Ozin his mentors. After his postdoc with Tim Swager at MIT, he returned to his alma mater in 2001. From 2009 to 2010 he was on a Humboldt fellowship at RWTH Aachen University . In 2011 MacLachlan was appointed to a professorship.

He is working on various new materials such as conjugated polymers, carbon nanotubes assembled with the help of macrocycles , Prussian blue nanocomposites, porous metal organic frameworks and Pd / Cer (IV) oxide nanocomposites.

More recently he has been researching natural polymers ( chitin and cellulose ). He holds the Canada Research Chair in "Supramolecular Materials" and is director of the training program Nanomaterials Science & Technology (NanoMat) of the Canadian research grant NSERC .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark J. MacLachlan . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition . tape 53 , no. 6 , February 3, 2014, p. 1476–1476 , doi : 10.1002 / anie.201308122 .
  2. ↑ https://www.chem.ubc.ca/mark-maclachlan .
  3. ↑ http://www.cheminst.ca/awards/strem-chemicals-award-pure-or-applied-inorganic-chemistry/mark-maclachlan .
  4. ↑ http://www.cheminst.ca/awards/award-research-excellence-materials-chemistry/mark-maclachlan .
personal data
SURNAME MacLachlan, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacLachlan, Mark J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1973