Encyclopedia of Nanomaterials

Younan Xia is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine in The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, with joint appointments in School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with Professor George M. Whitesides) in 1996, his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000) in 1993, and his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987. He has co-authored more than 700 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and is an Associate Editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters. He also serves on the advisory boards of many other journals. Dr. Xia has received a number of prestigious awards and was named a top 10 chemist and materials scientist in 2009. Yadong Yin is Principal Investigator and Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California Riverside. His group is interested in the development of functional nanostructured materials for photonic, catalytic, bioanalytical, and energy applications through unique tools including chemical synthesis, surface functionalization, and self-assembly techniques. Yin is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C and a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Materials Research Society (MRS), and Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow (FRSC). He has published over 300 journal articles and is editor of two books: Responsive Photonic Nanostructures: Smart Nanoscale Optical Materials (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013) and Handbook of Synthetic Methodologies and Protocols of Nanomaterials (World Scientific Publishing, 2018).