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Louis E. Brus

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Louis Brus
Brus in 2008
Born (1943-08-10) August 10, 1943 (age 81)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
EducationRice University (BS)
Columbia University (PhD)
Known forquantum dots
Brus equation
AwardsIrving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (2001)
National Academy of Sciences (2004)
R. W. Wood Prize (2006)
Kavli Prize (2008)
Willard Gibbs Award (2009)p
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2010)
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2012)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Chemical physics
Nanotechnology
InstitutionsUS Naval Research Laboratory Bell Telephone Laboratory Columbia University
ThesisLifetime Shortening of Na(32p) and T(72S) Quenched by Halogens (1969)
Doctoral advisorRichard Bersohn

Louis Eugene Brus[1] (born August 10, 1943)[2] is an American chemist, and currently the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots.[3] In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Early life and education

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Louis Eugene Brus was born in 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. During high school in Roeland Park, Kansas, he developed an interest for chemistry and physics.[4]

He entered Rice University in 1961 with a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) college scholarship, which required him to participate in NROTC activities at sea as a midshipman. In 1965, he graduated at Rice with a B.S. degree in chemical physics, and then moved to Columbia University for his doctoral research.[4] For his dissertation, he worked on the photodissociation of sodium iodide vapor, under the supervision of Richard Bersohn.[4] After obtaining his Ph.D. degree in chemical physics in 1969, Brus returned to the Navy as a lieutenant and served as a scientific staff officer in collaboration with Lin Ming-chang, at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.[4]

Under the recommendation of Bersohn, Brus left the Navy permanently and joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1973, where he did the work that led to the discovery of quantum dots.[4] In 1996, Brus left Bell Labs and joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University.[4]

Work on quantum dots

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Brus is a foundational figure in the research and development of quantum dots. Quantum dots are tiny semiconducting crystals whose nanoscale size gives them unique optical and electronic properties.[5]

Brus was independently the first to synthesize them in a solution in 1982. At the time, he was studying organic photochemistry on cadmium sulfide particle surfaces using pump–probe Raman spectroscopy, looking for possible applications for solar-energy.[6][7] He noticed that the optical properties of the crystals changed after leaving them for 24 hours.[7] He attributed this change in band gap energy to Ostwald ripening when the crystal increased size.[7]

Brus provided the theoretical framework for understanding the behavior of quantum dots in terms of quantum size effects. He identified the connection between the particle size of semiconductors and the wavelength of the light they emit,[8][9][10][11][12] now known as the Brus equation.[6]

Brus tried to contact researchers in the Soviet Union. It was in 1990, that he finally met Alexey Ekimov and Alexander Efros, who had first developed the semiconductor nanocrystals in glass in 1981 under more rudimentary conditions, however their research was not available in the United States.[7]

At Bell Labs, Brus worked with postdoc researchers Paul Alivisatos and Moungi Bawendi in a research project with organometallic synthetic chemist Michael L. Steigerwald on reducing the size of the quantum dots.[4]

Awards and honors

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Brus was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998,[13] a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004,[14] and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[15]

He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Association of Rice University Alumni in 2010. He was co-recipient of the 2006 R. W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America "for the discovery of nanocrystal quantum dots and pioneering studies of their electronic and optical properties" shared with Alexander Efros and Alexey Ekimov.[16][17] He also received the inaugural Kavli Prize for nanoscience along with Sumio Iijima in 2008 for "for their large impact in the development of the nanoscience field of the zero and one dimensional nanostructures in physics, chemistry and biology".[18] In 2009 he was awarded the Willard Gibbs Award "for his leading role in the creation of chemical quantum dots".[19] Brus was chosen for the 2010 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences. In 2012 he received the Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science,[20] and was selected as a Clarivate Citation laureate in Chemistry "for discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)".[21]

In 2023, Brus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Ekimov and Moungi Bawendi "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots".[22] Bawendi had worked as a postdoc with Brus, when they were in Bell Labs.[23]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Louis Eugene Brus". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. September 13, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
  2. ^ Profile of Louis Eugene Brus
  3. ^ Brus, Louis E. (1984). "Electron–electron and electron-hole interactions in small semiconductor crystallites: The size dependence of the lowest excited electronic state". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 80 (4403): 4403–4409. Bibcode:1984JChPh..80.4403B. doi:10.1063/1.447218. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Davis, Tinsley (February 2005). "Biography of Louis E. Brus". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (5): 1277–1279. doi:10.1073/pnas.0409555102. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 547879. PMID 15677326.
  5. ^ Singh, Suchita; Dhawan, Aksha; Karhana, Sonali; Bhat, Madhusudan; Dinda, Amit Kumar (November 29, 2020). "Quantum Dots: An Emerging Tool for Point-of-Care Testing". Micromachines. 11 (12): 1058. doi:10.3390/mi11121058. ISSN 2072-666X. PMC 7761335. PMID 33260478.
  6. ^ a b Kafel, A.; Al-Rashid, S. N. Turki (January 1, 2023). "Study Using the Brus Equation to Examine How Quantum Confinement Energy Affects the Optical Characteristics of Cadmium Sulfide and Zinc Selenide". International Journal of Nanoscience. 22 (4): 2350034–120. Bibcode:2023IJN....2250034K. doi:10.1142/S0219581X23500345. ISSN 0219-581X. S2CID 258431435.
  7. ^ a b c d Robinson2023-10-11T17:50:00+01:00, Julia. "The quantum dot story". Chemistry World. Retrieved October 20, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Sanderson, Katharine; Castelvecchi, Davide (October 4, 2023). "Tiny 'quantum dot' particles win chemistry Nobel". Nature. 622 (7982): 227–228. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-03048-9. PMID 37794149. S2CID 263671129.
  9. ^ Efros, Alexander L.; Brus, Louis E. (April 27, 2021). "Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: From Discovery to Modern Development". ACS Nano. 15 (4): 6192–6210. doi:10.1021/acsnano.1c01399. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 33830732. S2CID 233193323.
  10. ^ Bubola, Emma; Miller, Katrina (October 4, 2023). "Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 3 Scientists for Exploring the Nanoworld". The New York Times.
  11. ^ Gramling, Carolyn (October 4, 2023). "The development of quantum dots wins the 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry". Science News.
  12. ^ Clery, Daniel; Kean, Sam (October 4, 2023). "Creators of quantum dots, used in TV displays and cell studies, win chemistry Nobel". Science.
  13. ^ "Curl Elected AAAS Fellow". Rice University. May 28, 1998. Retrieved July 18, 2023.
  14. ^ "Louis E. Brus". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved July 18, 2023.
  15. ^ "Gruppe 4: Kjemi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on March 3, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
  16. ^ "R. W. Wood Prize". Optica.
  17. ^ "Twenty attain 2006 top honors from the OSA". Laser Focus World. August 30, 2006. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
  18. ^ "Columbia Professors to Receive Kavli Prizes in Norway Ceremony". 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
  19. ^ "Gibbs Award Ceremony 2009". Chicago ACS Archive. Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  20. ^ "Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science". Franklin Institute. 2012. Archived from the original on December 17, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  21. ^ "Thomson Reuters Predicts 2012 Nobel Laureates". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Thomson Reuters. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
  22. ^ Devlin, Hannah; correspondent, Hannah Devlin Science (October 4, 2023). "Scientists share Nobel prize in chemistry for quantum dots discovery". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 4, 2023. {{cite news}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  23. ^ "Names of purported Nobel chemistry prize winners inadvertently released". Reuters. October 4, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
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