Dmitri Talapin named 2011 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for inorganic nanocrystals

摘要

Dmitri V. Talapin, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, has been named the 2011 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator. Talapin was cited for "methodological developments of synthesis and self-assembly of inorganic nanocrystals and for fundamental studies transforming colloidal nanostructures into electronic and optoelectronic materials." He will deliver an award talk at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Talapin has provided key advances toward three of the overarching goals of the field of nanomaterials. He contributed significantly to the methodology of synthesis of nanostructures with complex shapes and compositions. A key development in this area is his discovery and physical/theoretical characterization of nano-heterostructures of "mixed dimensionality"-semiconducting materials with different confinement regimes for electrons and holes. In parallel, Talapin synthesized the first SnTe quantum dots and investigated their optical and electronic properties. He also made key contributions to elucidating the fundamental aspects of self-assembly phenomena, which is critical to rationally creating and controlling new nanostructures.