Mercouri Kanatzidis

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (* 1957 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek chemist.

Kanatzidis studied chemistry at the Aristoteles University in Thessaloniki with a bachelor's degree in 1979 and received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of Iowa under Dimitri Coucouvanis. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University with Tobin J. Marks . In 1987 he became an assistant professor at Michigan State University , where he became a professor in 1994. He has been a professor at Northwestern University since 2006 .

He was Wilhelm Manchot visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich and in 2014 Einstein professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He is known for the development of nano-structured thermoelectric materials with nano-dots made of lead-tellurium, which increase the scatter in heat conduction, but not in electrical conduction.

With Robert PH Chang he developed solar cells based on perovskites. He also developed new synthesis methods for chalcogenides and intermetallic compounds and developed chalcogels ( aerogels made from chalcogenides). Most recently he has been working on panoramic synthesis, in which the synthesis is followed in situ using X-ray scattering. In 2015 he developed a chalcogen with the FeMoS group that converts nitrogen photochemically into ammonia (in aqueous media and under normal conditions). The process was developed biomimetically based on the model of biological nitrogen fixation (which, however, does not require a photon).

In 2016 he received the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry and the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials for fundamental contributions to the discovery of new families of thermoelectric materials with the highest known performance characteristics (laudation). He was a Sloan Research Fellow , Guggenheim Fellow and received the Presidential Young Investigator Award and a Humboldt Research Award . Kanatzidis is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society , the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is an honorary doctor of the University of Crete and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received its De Gennes Prize in 2015. In 2018 he received the Chemical Pioneer Award .

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Individual evidence

↑ Kanatzidis et al. a .: Photochemical Nitrogen Conversion to Ammonia in Ambient Conditions with FeMoS-Chalcogels, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Volume 137, 2015, pp. 2030-2034, doi : 10.1021 / ja512491v
↑ McGroddy Prize , Laudation: For seminal contributions to the discovery of new families of thermoelectric materials with the highest known figure of merit .

personal data
SURNAME	Kanatzidis, Mercouri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thessaloniki

[1] Kanatzidis et al. a .: Photochemical Nitrogen Conversion to Ammonia in Ambient Conditions with FeMoS-Chalcogels, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Volume 137, 2015, pp. 2030-2034, doi : 10.1021 / ja512491v

[2] McGroddy Prize , Laudation: For seminal contributions to the discovery of new families of thermoelectric materials with the highest known figure of merit .