Ralph Nuzzo

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Ralph George Nuzzo (born February 23, 1954 in Paterson , New Jersey ) is an American chemist . He is a pioneer in the field of self-assembly of single-atomic layers (self-assembling monolayer, SAM).

Life

Nuzzo studied at Rutgers University ( Bachelor in 1976), received his PhD in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980 and then went to Bell Laboratories , where he became Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 1987 . In 1991 he became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . There he is GL Clark Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science.

His area of ​​work belongs to nanotechnology , especially interface systems chemistry (IFCS), the targeted design and synthesis of complex molecules that perform tasks on surfaces and in interfaces (functional interfaces). He pursues applications in batteries and fuel cells , in photovoltaics and in new light-emitting diodes (LED) and OLEDs . He developed a method for producing large-area flexible electronic circuits on any surface.

In 2012 he was Humboldt Professor at the University of Heidelberg . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2009 he was one of the recipients of the IEEE's George E. Smith Award .

Nuzzo is the editor of Langmuir magazine .

He has been married since 1980 and has a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • with JA Rogers: Recent Progress in Soft Lithography. In: Materials Today. Volume 8, 2005, pp. 50-56.
  • with MA Meitl, Z.-T. Zhu, V. Kumar, KJ Lee, X. Feng, YY Huang, I. Adesida, JA Rogers: Transfer Printing by Kinetic Control of Adhesion to an Elastomeric Stamp. In: Nature Materials. Volume 5, 2006, pp. 33-38.
  • with J.-H. Ahn, H.-S. Kim, KJ Lee, S. Jeon, S. Kang, Y. Sun, JA Rogers: Heterogeneous Three-Dimensional Electronics by Use of Printed Semiconductor Nanomaterials. In: Science . Volume 314, 2006, pp. 1754-1757.
  • with JC Love, L. Estroff, J. Kriebel, George Whitesides : Self-Assembled Monolayers of Thiolates on Metals as a Form of Nanotechnology. In: Chemical Reviews. Volume 105, 2005, pp. 1103-1170.
  • with E. Menard, KJ Lee, D.-Y. Khan, JA Rogers: A printable form of silicon for high performance thin film transistors on plastic substrates. In: Applied Physics Letters . Volume 84, 2004, p. 5398.
  • with David Allara : Adsorption of bifunctional organic disulfides on gold surfaces. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . Volume 105, 1983, pp. 4481-4483.
  • with David Allara: Spontaneously organized molecular assemblies. 1. Formation, dynamics, and physical properties of n-alkanoic acids adsorbed from solution on an oxidized aluminum surface. In: Langmuir. Volume 1, 1985, pp. 45-52.
  • with C. Bain, EB Troughton, YT Tao, J. Evall, G. Whitesides: Formation of monolayer films by the spontaneous assembly of organic thiols from solution onto gold. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Volume 111, 1989, pp. 321-335.
  • with Lawrence Dubois, David Allara: Fundamental studies of microscopic wetting on organic surfaces. 1. Formation and structural characterization of a self-consistent series of polyfunctional organic monolayers. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Volume 112, 1990, pp. 558-569.
  • with PE Laibinis, G. Whitesides, D. Allara, YT Tao, AN Parikh: Comparison of the structures and wetting properties of self-assembled monolayers of n-alkanethiols on the coinage metal surfaces, copper, silver, and gold. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Volume 113, 1991, pp. 7152-7167.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ↑ Heidelberg .
personal data
SURNAME Nuzzo, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuzzo, Ralph George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Paterson , New Jersey