Mark C. Hersam is a professor of Chemistry and Materials Science Engineering at

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(2000–present) who, according to the

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, has made "major breakthrough National Science Foundation
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. He is also an Associate Editor of ''ACS Nano''. As of January 2022, he was cited over 54,500 times according to

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Education and early academic work

Education

Mark Hersam attended Downers Grove South High School in

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where he was Valedictorian and an Eagle Scout. He then went on to receive his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

in 1996. Upon winning the

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, Hersam received a M.Phil. in

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and Semiconductor Physics from the

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in 1997. His Ph.D was granted from the Electrical Engineering Department at the

in 2000.

Early work

While at UIUC, Hersam did research under Professor David Ruzic in the Nuclear Engineering Department and Professor Joseph Lyding in the Electrical Engineering Department. After graduating from UIUC, Hersam was an intern at the

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where he did research in the Energy Technology Division studying the energy-related applications of surface acoustic-wave-based sensing. While at

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, Hersam was advised by

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and the two co-authored the paper "Potentiometry and repair of electrically stressed nanowires using atomic force microscopy" in the journal of Applied Physics Letters. As a doctoral candidate, Hersam again worked with Professor Joseph Lyding at the Beckman Institute where they studied "atomic level manipulation and silicon-based molecular nanotechnology."

Research

As head of the Hersam Group at

, Hersam has authored more than 137 peer-reviewed publications studying hybrid hard and soft nanoscale materials for applications in information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and alternative energy.

Corporate connections and applications

*Co-Founder of

NanoIntegris NanoIntegris is a nanotechnology company based in Boisbriand, Quebec specializing in the production of enriched, single-walled carbon nanotubes. In 2012, NanoIntegris was acquired by Raymor Industries, a large-scale producer of single-wall carbon ...

*Intern at IBM Nanoscience

Honors and achievements

Honors

* Teacher of the Year in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering,

2003, 2007, 2009, 2010 * Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, 2010 * SES Research Young Investigator Award,

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, 2010 * Senior Member,

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, 2009 * Young Alumni Achievement Award, ECE Department, UIUC, 2007 * AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award, 2006 * TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award, 2006 * Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2005 * Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2005 * Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2005 * Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship,Northwestern University Bio
/ref> 2005 *

Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll,AVS Profile
2004 *

CAREER Award, 2002 * Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Beckman Young Investigators Award, 2001 * Gregory Stillman Semiconductor Research Award, 2000 *

American Vacuum Society AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and ProcessingAIP: A Federation of the Physical Sciences

Graduate Research Award, 1999

Scholarships

* Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Junior Fellow, 2001 * IBM Distinguished Fellowship, 1999 * Koehler Graduate Fellowship, 1998 * National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1997 * British Marshall Scholarship, 1996

Professional organizations and societies

* Co-Chair of the NSF International Study of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, 2009- * AVS Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Division Executive Board Member, 2003-2005, 2007-2009 * Review of Scientific Instruments Editorial Board Member, 2001-2003 * Nanopatterning Synergistic Research Group Leader, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, 2001- * Director of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center Research Experience for Undergraduates, 2001- * National Science Foundation SBIR, IMR/MRI, MRSEC and NUE Panelist * Member of IEEE, MRS, AVS, AIP, APS, ACS, TMS, ASEE, AAAS In 2016, he was selected as a U.S. Science Envoy by the United States State Department.

Selected works

* 2006 -Sorting carbon nanotubes by electronic structure using density differentiation, MS Arnold, AA Green, JF Hulvat, SI Stupp, MC Hersam, Nature nanotechnology 1 (1), 60-65 * 2014 - Emerging device applications for semiconducting two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, D Jariwala, VK Sangwan, LJ Lauhon, TJ Marks, MC Hersam, ACS nano 8 (2), 1102-1120 * 2015 - Synthesis of borophenes: Anisotropic, two-dimensional boron polymorphs, AJ Mannix, XF Zhou, B Kiraly, JD Wood, D Alducin, BD Myers, X Liu, Science 350 (6267), 1513-1516

Personal life

Hersam hosts Undergraduate Research Experience opportunityNorthwestern University REU Program
/ref> for students each summer.

References

External links

Hersam Group
at

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