Von Hippel Award
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- November 28 - December 2, 2011
- Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
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Meeting Chairs:
Cammy R. Abernathy, Paul V. Braun, Masashi Kawasaki, Kathryn J. Wahl
A. Paul Alivisatos, 2011 MRS Von Hippel Award Winner
Wednesday, November 30
6:30 pm
Sheraton Hotel, 2nd Floor, Grand Ballroom
A. Paul Alivisatos (view biography)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/University of California, Berkeley
Talk Presentation: The Emerging Science of Nanocrystals (view abstract)
“for the development of the fundamental scientific basis for growing and utilizing defect-free colloidal semiconductor nanoparticles, providing the basis for biological imaging, solid state lighting, and the capture and conversion of solar energy to electricity”
The Materials Research Society's highest honor, the Von Hippel Award, is conferred annually to an individual in recognition of the recipient's outstanding contribution to interdisciplinary research on materials.
Dr. Paul Alivisatos serves as the seventh director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, succeeding Steven Chu who was sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of Energy in 2009.
Alivisatos received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1981 from the University of Chicago. He received a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. He did his postdoctoral work at AT&T Bell Labs, where he first delved into nanotechnology.
Alivisatos has led a distinguished career in nanoscience research, making ground-breaking contributions to the fundamental physical chemistry of nanocrystals, including the synthesis of size- and shape-controlled nanoscystals, and studies of the optical, electrical, structural, and thermodynamic properties. He has demonstrated key applications of nanocrystals in biological imaging and renewable energy. Alivisatos, a professor in UC Berkeley’s Departments of Materials Science and Chemistry, is currently the Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology.
He joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory as a principle investigator in 1988. He has been deeply engaged in major scientific initiatives at Berkeley Lab. He was the founding director of the Molecular Foundry (2001-2005), Berkeley Lab’s nanoscience research center. He served as the Director of the Materials Science Division (2002-2008), and as Associate Lab Director for Physical Sciences at Berkeley Lab (2005-2007). In those positions, he helped to conceive and establish Berkeley Lab’s Helios research initiative, an ambitious plan to lay the foundations for better solar energy utilization.
Alivisatos is a scientific founder of Quantum Dot Corp., Nanosys inc., and Solexant, Inc. He is the founding editor of Nano Letters, a publication of the American Chemical Society. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Linus Pauling Medal, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Eni Italgas Prize for Energy and Environment, the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, the Wilson Prize, the Coblentz Award for Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy, and the American Chemical Society Award for Colloid and Surface Science. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, and the Materials Research Society. Alivisatos is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This talk will chart the development of a fundamental building block of nanoscience—colloidal inorganic nanocrystals. We will examine fundamental scaling laws for size and shape-dependent properties; the ability to synthesize nanocrystals with controlled composition, topology, and connectivity; the deep applications of artificial nanostructures in biology; the study of nanocrystals at the single particle level; the emergence of collective behavior when nanocrystals are coupled together; and the prospects for nanocrystals to play an important role in energy science and technologies.
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