报告题目：Recent Progress in Solution-Phase Synthesis of  Magnetic Metal Oxide and Plasmonic Semiconductor Nanocrystals

报告地点：实验楼三层学术沙龙

报告时间：2018年4月14日10:00  

报告人简介：  

Mark T. Swihart earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (summa cum laude, 1992) from Rice University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (1997) from the University of Minnesota, as a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. He conducted postdoctoral research in the renowned Particle Technology Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota before joining the University at Buffalo (SUNY) Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in 1998. Swihart has been a full professor since 2008, and was named a UB Distinguished Professor in 2014. From 2007 to 2015 he led a university-wide Strategic Initiative in Integrated Nanostructured Systems. Since 2015, he has served as Executive Director of the New York State Center of  Excellence in Materials Informatics.
        His research interests include synthesis, processing, and applications of nanoparticles and nanomaterials. His group has been first in the world to demonstrate several applications of silicon nanocrystals in bioimaging. They are also widely known for their work in solution phase synthesis of anisotropic and multi-component nanomaterials, and for their computational studies of gas-phase nanoparticle synthesis. More recently, they have developed a new process for gas phase production of multi-component metal nanoparticles, and have advanced the solution-phase synthesis of copper chalcogenide-based plasmonic semiconductor nanostructures. Swihart has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal manuscripts and three book chapters, has co-edited three proceedings volumes, and is a co-inventor on five issued U.S. patents. He co-authored the 8th edition of Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (Smith, van Ness, Abbott, and Swihart, 2017), which through the first seven editions was the best-selling chemical engineering textbook of all time. According to Google Scholar, his work has received nearly 12,000 citations, with an h-index of 57. Dr. Swihart is a recipient of the Kenneth Whitby award from the American Association for Aerosol Research and the J.B. Wagner award from the Electrochemical Society, as well as several university awards for research excellence. He was named “Professor of the Year” by the University at Buffalo chemical engineering undergraduates five times, and received mentoring awards from UB’s Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program, Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, and McNair Scholars program. In 2015 he received the Meyerson Award, the university’s highest award for undergraduate mentoring. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Swihart serves as an editor for Aerosol Science and Technology, and on the Board of Consulting Editors of AIChE Journal. He has advised more than seventy current and former graduate students and more than 100 undergraduate researchers.