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George C. Schatz
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Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy
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Amanda Morris
McCormick School of Engineering
Charles E and Emma H Morrison Professor
About
Areas of Focus
- Theory and computation
- Materials
- Aqueous interfaces
- Plasmonics
- Quantum
- Nanotechnology
- Hypersonics
Work/Research
- Studies the optical, structural and thermal properties of nanomaterials, including plasmonic nanoparticles, plasmonic metamaterials, soft matter nanostructures and transition metal dichalcogenides
- Contributes to theories of dynamical processes, including gas phase and gas/surface reactions, energy and electron transfer processes, quantum science, transport phenomena and photochemistry.
- Sensing
- Photonics
- Computational modeling
- Quantum theory
- Photochemistry
- Plasma
Career
Schatz received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Clarkson University and a Ph. D at Caltech. He was a postdoc at MIT and has been at Northwestern since 1976. Schatz has published four books and over a thousand papers.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous awards, including the Debye, Langmuir and Marsha Lester Awards of the ACS, the Bourke and Boys-Rahman Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Materials Theory Award of the MRS. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society and of the AAAS. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and JPC Letters 2005-2019.