Naresh Dalal is a physical chemist who specializes in materials science. He is the

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Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at

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, where he is affiliated with the

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) is a facility at Florida State University, the University of Florida, and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, that performs magnetic field research in physics, biology, bioengineering ...

. Dalal was first to synthesize Fe₈, one of the strongest magnets thus far identified, the discovery of which has advanced exploration leading to the possibility of new kinds of medical imaging.

Research

Dalal has written or co-written more than 400 publications for peer-reviewed journals that have been cited over 7,000 times. He is the co-principal investigator on a

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

grant award for investigating small photo-responsive molecules that can translate the action of heat, pressure, or light irradiation into substantial changes in the magnetic and structural properties of materials. Dalal's research group focuses on: * Studying the physical properties of solid-state materials * Development of new materials (

superconductors Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic flux fields are expelled from the material. Any material exhibiting these properties is a superconductor. Unlike ...

ferroics Ferroics is the generic name given to the study of ferromagnets, ferroelectrics, and ferroelastics. Overview The basis of ferroics is to understand the large changes in physical characteristics that occur over a very narrow temperature range. ...

, etc.) * Understanding of structure-property relationships * Obtaining guidelines for developing new materials * Development of novel applications or improvement of existing instrumental methods (high field EPR probe design,

NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are perturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with ...

methods, etc.)

Honors

Dalal received Florida State University's highest faculty honor when he was named 2012-2013 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor. In 2010, Dalal received the Silver Medal for Physics/Materials Science from the International Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Society. In 2007, he received the Florida Chemistry award from the Florida Section of the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all d ...

, and the Southern Chemist Award from the Memphis Section of the American Chemical Society. After being nominated by the Division of Chemical Physics in 2000 for the development of multiple resonance methods and their applications in

molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the physical movements of atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a fixed period of time, giving a view of the dynamic "evolution" of the ...

and ferroelectric

phase transitions In chemistry, thermodynamics, and other related fields, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another. Commonly the term is used to refer to changes among the basic states of ...

, Dalal was named a fellow by the

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. He was named a fellow by the

in 2010.

Awards

* 2012-13 FSU (Faculty of Arts and Science) Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor award to Naresh S. Dalal.

References

External links

Florida State University faculty profile

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory profile

2010 Silver Medal
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