Nicholas A. Kotov
Nicholas A. Kotov | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | self-assembling materials, layer-by-layer assembly, nanotechnology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Biomedical Engineering |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Thesis | Photoelectrochemical Effects at the Interface of the Two Immiscible Electrolyte Solutions |
Doctoral advisor | Mikhail Kuzmin |
Other academic advisors | Janos H. Fendler |
Nicholas A. Kotov (born August 29, 1965, in Moscow, USSR) is the Irving Langmuir Distinguished Professor of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA.[1] Prof. Nicholas Kotov demonstrated that the ability to self-organize into complex structures is the unifying property of all inorganic nanostructures.[2][3] He has developed a family of bioinspired composite materials with a wide spectrum of properties that were previously unattainable in classical materials.[4] These composite biomimetic materials are exemplified by his nacre-like ultrastrong yet transparent composites,[5][6] enamel-like, stiff yet vibration-isolating composites, and cartilage-like membranes with both high strength and ion conductance.[6][7][8][9]
Work
[edit]Kotov's research is focused on the development of biomimetic nanocomposites, the self-assembly of nanoparticles,[10] and chiral nanostructures.[11] Utilizing layer-by-layer assembly (LbL),[12] Kotov prepared a wide spectrum of nacre-like nanocomposites including those from clay[13] and graphite oxide.[14] He showed that clay-based biomimetic composites can attain mechanical properties comparable to some grades of steel while retaining transparency.[15] This discovery spurred the development of new methods for the mass-production of nacre-like materials from a large variety of inorganic nanosheets.[16] While being inspired by natural materials, these composites far exceeded the properties of their natural prototypes and add other optical, electrical, thermal, and membrane properties.
Kotov extended the concept of biomimetic nanostructures to inorganic nanoparticles. He established that, similarly to many proteins and other biomolecules, nanoparticles can self-organize into chains,[10] sheets,[17] nanowires, twisted ribbons[18] and nanohelices,[19][20] and spherical supraparticles replicating viral capsids.[21]
Kotov's work established that the biomimetic self-assembly behavior of nanoparticles originates from interparticle interactions at the nanoscale,[22] in which chirality also plays a prominent role.[23] His studies on the self-assembly of chiral nanostructures have led to the development of nanoparticle assemblies with complexity exceeding those found in biological organisms.[24]
Education and research career
[edit]Education and early career
[edit]Kotov received his MS (1987) and PhD (1990) degrees in chemistry from Moscow State University, where his research concerned liquid-liquid interfaces imitating cell membranes for solar energy conversion. After graduation, he took up a postdoctoral position in the research group of Prof. Janos Fendler in the Department of Chemistry at Syracuse University in New York state working on nanoparticle synthesis and assembly at interfaces.
Independent research career
[edit]Kotov took up a position as assistant professor of chemistry at the Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1996, gaining promotion to associate professor in 2001. In 2003 he moved to the University of Michigan where he is now the Irving Langmuir Distinguished Professor of Chemical Sciences and Engineering.
Awards
[edit]- 2021 Thurnbull Lectureship (Materials Research Society)[25]
- 2021 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award, (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)[26]
- 2020 National Academy of Inventors[27]
- 2020 Alpha Chi Sigma Award (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)[28]
- 2020 Newton Award (Department of Defense)[29]
- 2020 Irving Langmuir Distinguished Professor of Chemical Sciences and Engineering [30]
- 2020 Batsheva de Rothschild Fellowship (The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
- 2020 Melville Lecturer (University of Cambridge, UK)
- 2019 IMX Lecturer (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- 2018 Vannevar Bush Fellowship (US Department of Defense)[31]
- 2018 Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award (Royal Society of Chemistry)[32]
- 2017 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt Foundation)[33]
- 2017 Van 't Hoff Lecturer (Universities of Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Leiden)
- 2017 Colloid Chemistry Award (American Chemical Society, ACS)[34]
- 2016 Stephanie L. Kwolek Award (Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC)[35]
- 2016 August T. Larsson Fellow (Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet)
- 2016 Senior Fulbright Fellow (Fulbright Foundation and Commission)
- 2016 UNESCO Medal for Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies [36]
- 2014 Materials Research Society Medal (with Prof. S. Glotzer)[37]
- 2014 Best of New Technologies Award (Popular Science)
- 2014 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS)[38]
- 2014 MRL Lecturer (California Institute of Technology)
- 2014 IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Lecturer (Northwestern University)
- 2013 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- 2013 Langmuir Lectureship Award (American Chemical Society, ACS)
- 2012 Stine Award for Materials Research (American Institute of Chemical Engineers, AIChE)[39]
- 2012 Kennedy Family Research Team Award (UM)
- 2011 Top 100 Materials Scientists in 2000-2010 (Thomson Reuters)[40]
- 2011 Top 100 Chemists in 2000-2010 (Thomson Reuters)[41]
- 2008 Gutenberg Award (Government of Alsace)
- 2008 College Inventor Award (USPTO, Kauffman Foundation of Entrepreneurship)
- 2008 Top 10 Discoveries of the Year (Wired Magazine)[42]
- 2007 College of Engineering Research Excellence Award (University of Michigan)
- 2007 Caddell Award (University of Michigan)
- 2007 Chair of Gordon Research Conference “Supramolecular Chemistry” (GRC)
- 2006 Welliver Fellow (The Boeing Co.)
- 2006 Gran Prix, Materials Research Society Entrepreneurship Challenge (MRS)[43]
- 2003 Chair of Gordon Research Conference “Thin Organic Films” (GRC)
- 1998 NSF CAREER Award (National Science Foundation, NSF)[44]
- 1996 Humboldt Fellowship (Humboldt Foundation, Germany)[33]
- 1987 Honor Diploma (diploma with distinction = summa cum laude, Moscow State U.)
- 1986 Mendeleev Fellowship (Moscow State University, Russia)
Personal life
[edit]Kotov married chemist Elvira Stesikova, PhD, in 1991. They have two daughters, Sophia and Nicole.
References
[edit]- ^ "Nicholas A. Kotov | Michigan Engineering". Engin.umich.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
- ^ "acs.org". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ "Nicholas Kotov of University of Michigan is 2020 Alpha Chi Sigma Award Recipient". www.aiche.org. 2020-10-12. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ "Kotov wins the Stephanie L. Kwolek Award". Michigan Engineering. May 20, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ "U-M research: New plastic is strong as steel, transparent". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ a b "New Plastic is Transparent and Strong as Steel". NetComposites. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ "Membrane inspired by bone and cartilage efficiently produces electricity from saltwater". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ "Inspired by the Tissues of Living Organisms, Researchers Take One Step Closer to Harvesting "Blue Energy"". Yale E360. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ "ten15am.org".
- ^ a b Zhiyong Tang; Nicholas A. Kotov; Michael Giersig (2002). "Spontaneous Organization of Single CdTe Nanoparticles into Luminescent Nanowires". Science. 297 (5579): 237–40. Bibcode:2002Sci...297..237T. doi:10.1126/science.1072086. PMID 12114622. S2CID 45388619.
- ^ Wei Chen; Ai Bian; Ashish Agarwal; Liqiang Liu; Hebai Shen; Libing Wang; Chuanlai Xu; Nicholas A. Kotov (2009). "Nanoparticle Superstructures Made by Polymerase Chain Reaction: Collective Interactions of Nanoparticles and a New Principle for Chiral Materials". Nano Letters. 9 (5): 2153–2159. Bibcode:2009NanoL...9.2153C. doi:10.1021/nl900726s. PMID 19320495. S2CID 35163925.
- ^ G. Decher; J. D. Hong; J. Schmitt (1992). "Buildup of ultrathin multilayer films by a self-assembly process: III. Consecutively alternating adsorption of anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes on charged surfaces". Thin Solid Films. 210/211: 831. Bibcode:1992TSF...210..831D. doi:10.1016/0040-6090(92)90417-A.
- ^ Kotov, N. A.; Magonov, S.; Tropsha, E. (March 1998). "Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly of Alumosilicate−Polyelectrolyte Composites: Mechanism of Deposition, Crack Resistance, and Perspectives for Novel Membrane Materials". Chemistry of Materials. 10 (3): 886–895. doi:10.1021/cm970649b. ISSN 0897-4756.
- ^ Kotov, Nicholas A.; Dékány, Imre; Fendler, Janos H. (August 1996). "Ultrathin graphite oxide-polyelectrolyte composites prepared by self-assembly: Transition between conductive and non-conductive states". Advanced Materials. 8 (8): 637–641. Bibcode:1996AdM.....8..637K. doi:10.1002/adma.19960080806.
- ^ Podsiadlo, Paul; Kaushik, Amit K.; Arruda, Ellen M.; Waas, Anthony M.; Shim, Bong Sup; Xu, Jiadi; Nandivada, Himabindu; Pumplin, Benjamin G.; Lahann, Joerg (2007-10-05). "Ultrastrong and Stiff Layered Polymer Nanocomposites". Science. 318 (5847): 80–83. Bibcode:2007Sci...318...80P. doi:10.1126/science.1143176. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17916728. S2CID 22559961.
- ^ Gao, Huai-Ling; Chen, Si-Ming; Mao, Li-Bo; Song, Zhao-Qiang; Yao, Hong-Bin; Cölfen, Helmut; Luo, Xi-Sheng; Zhang, Fu; Pan, Zhao (2017-08-18). "Mass production of bulk artificial nacre with excellent mechanical properties". Nature Communications. 8 (1): 287. Bibcode:2017NatCo...8..287G. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00392-z. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 5562756. PMID 28821851.
- ^ Zhiyong Tang; Zhenli Zhang; Ying Wang; Sharon C. Glotzer; Nicholas A. Kotov (2006). "Self-Assembly of CdTe Nanocrystals into Free-Floating Sheets". Science. 314 (5797): 274–8. Bibcode:2006Sci...314..274T. doi:10.1126/science.1128045. PMID 17038616. S2CID 18839769.
- ^ Sudhanshu Srivastava; Aaron Santos; Kevin Critchley; Ki-Sub Kim; Paul Podsiadlo; Kai Sun; Jaebeom Lee; Chuanlai Xu; G. Daniel Lilly; Sharon C. Glotzer; Nicholas A. Kotov (2010). "Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoparticles into Twisted Ribbons". Science. 327 (5971): 1355–9. Bibcode:2010Sci...327.1355S. doi:10.1126/science.1177218. PMID 20150443. S2CID 22492581.
- ^ Zhou, Yunlong; Marson, Ryan L.; van Anders, Greg; Zhu, Jian; Ma, Guanxiang; Ercius, Peter; Sun, Kai; Yeom, Bongjun; Glotzer, Sharon C. (2016-03-22). "Biomimetic Hierarchical Assembly of Helical Supraparticles from Chiral Nanoparticles". ACS Nano. 10 (3): 3248–3256. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b05983. ISSN 1936-0851. OSTI 1440921. PMID 26900920. S2CID 30561840.
- ^ Feng, Wenchun; Kim, Ji-Young; Wang, Xinzhi; Calcaterra, Heather A.; Qu, Zhibei; Meshi, Louisa; Kotov, Nicholas A. (2017-03-01). "Assembly of mesoscale helices with near-unity enantiomeric excess and light-matter interactions for chiral semiconductors". Science Advances. 3 (3): e1601159. Bibcode:2017SciA....3E1159F. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1601159. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 5332156. PMID 28275728.
- ^ Xia, Yunsheng; Nguyen, Trung Dac; Yang, Ming; Lee, Byeongdu; Santos, Aaron; Podsiadlo, Paul; Tang, Zhiyong; Glotzer, Sharon C.; Kotov, Nicholas A. (2011-08-21). "Self-assembly of self-limiting monodisperse supraparticles from polydisperse nanoparticles". Nature Nanotechnology. 6 (9): 580–587. Bibcode:2011NatNa...6..580X. doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.121. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 21857686.
- ^ Batista, Carlos A. Silvera; Larson, Ronald G.; Kotov, Nicholas A. (2015-10-09). "Nonadditivity of nanoparticle interactions". Science. 350 (6257): 1242477. doi:10.1126/science.1242477. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 26450215.
- ^ Ma, Wei; Xu, Liguang; de Moura, André F.; Wu, Xiaoling; Kuang, Hua; Xu, Chuanlai; Kotov, Nicholas A. (2017-06-28). "Chiral Inorganic Nanostructures". Chemical Reviews. 117 (12): 8041–8093. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00755. ISSN 0009-2665. PMID 28426196.
- ^ Jiang, Wenfeng; Qu, Zhi-bei; Kumar, Prashant; Vecchio, Drew; Wang, Yuefei; Ma, Yu; Bahng, Joong Hwan; Bernardino, Kalil; Gomes, Weverson R.; Colombari, Felippe M.; Lozada-Blanco, Asdrubal (2020-05-08). "Emergence of complexity in hierarchically organized chiral particles". Science. 368 (6491): 642–648. Bibcode:2020Sci...368..642J. doi:10.1126/science.aaz7949. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 32273399. S2CID 215726726.
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- ^ Gran Prix, Materials Research Society Entrepreneurship Challenge
- ^ NSF Career Award
External links
[edit]- Group research website
- Google Scholar - Nicholas A. Kotov