Eric Andrew Stach is an American materials scientist who is a professor at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

and an elected fellow of both the

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(for "development and application of in-situ and operando methods in materials research using

transmission electron microscopy Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a microscopy technique in which a beam of electrons is transmitted through a specimen to form an image. The specimen is most often an ultrathin section less than 100 nm thick or a suspension on a g ...

") and the Microscopy Society of America. He was also awarded the Eli F. Burton Award in 2009. He was named a "Highly Cited Researcher" in the newly established Cross-Field category in 2018.

Education

He earned his B.S. at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1992, his M.S. and M.S.E at

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

in 1994, his Ph.D at

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

in 1998, and a Masters of Business Administration from

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

in 2018.

Research

His interests are materials science and engineering, crystallography, energy storage, heterogeneous catalysis, nanotechnology and he is a specialist in the field of electron microscopy. His highest cited paper "Graphene-based composite materials" has been cited 9570 times, according to

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Publications

*Yanwu Zhu, Shanthi Murali, Meryl D Stoller, KJ Ganesh, Weiwei Cai, Paulo J Ferreira, Adam Pirkle, Robert M Wallace, Katie A Cychosz, Matthias Thommes, Dong Su, Eric A Stach, Rodney S Ruoff. Carbon-based supercapacitors produced by activation of graphene. 332:6037. 1537-1541. ''Science'' 2011. *Qingkai Yu, Luis A Jauregui, Wei Wu, Robert Colby, Jifa Tian, Zhihua Su, Helin Cao, Zhihong Liu, Deepak Pandey, Dongguang Wei, Ting Fung Chung, Peng Peng, Nathan P Guisinger, Eric A Stach, Jiming Bao, Shin-Shem Pei, Yong P Chen. Control and characterization of individual grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition. 10:6. 443-449. ''Nature materials''. 2011. *Qijie Guo, Grayson M Ford, Wei-Chang Yang, Bryce C Walker, Eric A Stach, Hugh W Hillhouse, Rakesh Agrawal. Fabrication of 7.2% efficient CZTSSe solar cells using CZTS nanocrystals. 132:49. 17384-17386. ''Journal of the American Chemical Society''. 2010. *Zhiwei Shan, EA Stach, JMK Wiezorek, JA Knapp, DM Follstaedt, SX Mao. Grain boundary-mediated plasticity in nanocrystalline nickel. 305:5684. 654-657. ''Science''. 2004.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stach, Eric Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the American Physical Society University of Pennsylvania faculty 21st-century American scientists American materials scientists Duke University alumni University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni University of Washington College of Engineering alumni Stony Brook University alumni