2017 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Science and Engineering presented to Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Ph.D.

摘要

Mildred Dresselhaus has contributed to the fundamental science of thermal and electrical transport in nanoscale materials. Professor Dresselhaus is particularly recognized for her work on a) intercalation compounds (reversible inclusion or insertion of a molecule (or ion) into compounds with layered structures) and graphene; b) determining the electronic structure of fullerenes and "chiral graphene tubules", now referred to as carbon nanotubes, and finally c) quantum confinement concepts changing the fundamental equations governing the thermoelectric phenomenon.