Younan Xia (; born 1965) is a Chinese-American chemist, materials scientist, and bioengineer. He is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, with joint appointments in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience at the

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Early life and education

Xia was born in Jingjiang, Jiangsu, China in 1965. After receiving his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the

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(USTC) in 1987, he pursued graduate studies at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter until the end of 1990. He moved to the United States in 1991 and earned his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from

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with

Alan G. MacDiarmid Alan Graham MacDiarmid, Order of New Zealand, ONZ Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-born Americans, American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000. Ear ...

in 1993. He received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from

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with

George M. Whitesides George McClelland Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecula ...

in 1996.

Research

The current research of Xia and his group centers on the development of new chemistry, physics, and technological applications of nanostructured materials – a class of materials which feature sizes less than 100 nm. His research includes the chemistry and physics of nanomaterial synthesis, the application of nanomaterials to biomedical research, and developing nanomaterials for energy- and environment-related applications. Xia co-invented soft lithography while he was a PhD student with 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.

Involvements with academic journals

Xia served as an associate editor of '' Nano Letters'' for 17 years (2002-2019) and is currently serving on its advisory board. He has served or is serving on the Advisory Boards of ''Advanced Healthcare Materials'' (2011-, Chairman of the International advisory board), ''Nano Letters'' (2020-), ''Chemical Reviews'' (2019-), ''BME Frontiers'' (2019-), ''Research'' (2018-), ''ACS Applied Nano Materials'' (2018-), ''Small Methods'' (2017-), ''ChemNanoMat'' (2015-), ''Chemical Physics Letters'' (2014-), ''Chinese Journal of Chemistry'' (2014-), ''Chemistry: A European Journal'' (2014-), ''Cancer Nanotechnology'' (2014-), ''Particle & Particle Systems Characterization'' (2013-), ''

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'' (2011-), ''Chemistry: An Asian Journal'' (2010-), ''Accounts of Chemical Research'' (2010-2016), ''Journal of Biomedical Optics'' (2010-2014), ''Science of Advanced Materials'' (2009-), '' Nano Research'' (2008-), '' Nano Today'' (2006-), '' Langmuir'' (2005-2010, 2013-2015), ''

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'' (2005-2007), ''International Journal of Nanotechnology'' (2003-), and ''

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'' (2001-), ''World Scientific Series in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology'' (2009-, World Scientific Publishers), ''Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (''2001, Marcel Dekker Inc.'').'' He has also served as a Guest Editor of special issues for '' Advanced Materials'', ''Advanced Functional Materials'', ''MRS Bulletin, and Accounts of Chemical Research.''

Awards

Xia has received a number of prestigious awards, including Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry and Materials Science, Clarivate Analytics (2020), Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry and Materials Science, Clarivate Analytics (2019), Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award (2019), Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science (2018), NSF Special Creativity Award (2018), MRS Medal (2017), Inaugural Class of Hall of Fame (2017), Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science (2017), Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award (2017), Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry and Materials Science (2016), Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award (2016), Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science (2015), ACS Fellow (2014), Highly cited researcher in chemistry and materials science (2014), Nano Today Award (2013), MRS Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2013), ACS National Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2013), AIMBE Fellow (2011), MRS Fellow (2009 ), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006), ACS 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 (1999), ACS Victor K. LaMer Award (1999), NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (1999), Chinese NSF Oversea Young Investigator Award (1999), Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1997), and ACS ICI Student Award Finalist (1997). Xia was named by ''Times Higher Education'' one of the Top 10 chemists (#5) in the world from 1999-2009 based on the number of citations per paper. He was also ranked one of the Top 100 material scientists (#4) and top 100 chemists (#35) in the world from 2000-2010 based on the number of citations per paper. He was named one of the world's most influential scientific minds in 2015 in the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science.

References

External links

* http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-8499-2011 * https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3gDWh4gAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN * http://www.nanocages.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Xia, Younan 1965 births Living people American materials scientists Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni Fellows of the American Chemical Society Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Science and Technology of China alumni Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese materials scientists Georgia Tech faculty Scientists from Taizhou, Jiangsu Sloan Research Fellows