Younan Xia is the James M. McKelvey Professor for Advanced Materials in Department of Biomedical Engineering, with joint appointments in Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering; Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science; Department of Chemistry; Department of Radiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS); Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center; and Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease Center at Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

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Education

Dr. Xia received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 (with Professor George M. Whitesides

George M. Whitesides

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) in 1996, his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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 (with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000) in 1993, and his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China

University of Science and Technology of China

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 (USTC) in 1987. He came to the United States of America in 1991.

Current research

The current research of Dr. Xia and his group centers on the development of new chemistry, physics, and technological applications of nanostructured materials -- a novel class of materials with feature sizes <100 nm, including the following themes:

1. The Chemistry and Physics of Nanomaterial Synthesis

2. Putting Nanomaterials to Work for Biomedical Research

3. Nanomaterials, Energy and Environmental Research

Awards and achievements

Dr. Xia has received a number of prestigious awards, including the AIMBE Fellow (2011), MRS Fellow (2009 ), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006), Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (2005), Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (2002), David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2000), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000), NSF Early Career Development Award (2000), ACS Victor K. LaMer Award (1999), and Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1997).

Dr. Xia has been an Associate Editor of Nano Letters

Nano Letters

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 since 2002, and has served or is serving on the Advisory Boards of Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2011-), Advanced Healthcare Materials (2011-, inaugural chairman of the advisory board), Accounts of Chemical Research (2010-), Chemistry: An Asian Journal (2010-), Cancer Nanotechnology (2010-), Journal of Biomedical Optics (2010-), Nano Research

Nano Research

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 (2009-), Science of Advanced Materials (2009-), Nano Today

Nano Today

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 (2006-), Chemistry of Materials

Chemistry of Materials

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 (2005–2007), Langmuir

Langmuir

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 (2005–2010), International Journal of Nanoscience

International Journal of Nanoscience

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 (2004-), International Journal of Nanotechnology (2004-), and Advanced Functional Materials

Advanced Functional Materials

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 (2001-). He has also served as a Guest Editor of special issues for Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

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 (six times), Advanced Functional Materials

Advanced Functional Materials

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(one time), and MRS Bulletin (one time).

Dr. Xia co-invented soft lithography while he was a Ph.D. student with Professor George M. Whitesides at Harvard University. As an independent researcher, he and his group have made original and important contributions to the following areas: colloidal crystals and their photonic applications, colloidal assembly, one-dimensional nanostructures, electrospinning and alignment of nanofibers, electrospun nanofibers as scaffolds for tissue engineering, and shape-controlled synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals and their applications in plasmonics, spectroscopy, heterogeneous catalysis, and electrocatalysis, invention of silver nanostructures with many different morphologies such as nanowires and nanocubes, and invention of gold nanocages and exploration of their biomedical applications.

Up till July 2011, Dr. Xia and his group have published more than 450 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with a total citation of more than 45,000 and an h-index of more than 110.

External links

• http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-8499-2011
• http://www.nanocages.com/