Sara E. Skrabalak Explained

Sara E. Skrabalak
Birth Date:12 March 1980
Birth Place:Altoona, Pennsylvania, US
Nationality:American
Field:Chemistry
Work Institution:Indiana University - Bloomington
Thesis Title:Porous materials prepared by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis
Thesis Url:https://search.proquest.com/docview/304856355/
Thesis Year:2007
Doctoral Advisor:Kenneth S. Suslick
Academic Advisors:Younan Xia (post doctoral advisor)
Known For:Nanoscience, Materials Science, Synthesis

Sara E. Skrabalak is a James H. Rudy Professor at Indiana University.[1] Skrabalak leads a research group in the department of chemistry which focuses on the development of new nanomaterials. She has an adjunct appointment in the department of intelligent systems engineering.

Early life and education

Skrabalak was born on March 12, 1980, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Skrabalak obtained her B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis (chemistry, 2002)]. She conducted research with William Buhro while there, focused on nanotube synthesis by chemical vapor deposition methods. She received the Sowden Award from Washington University in St. Louis for her undergraduate research. She graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.

She received her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the laboratory of Kenneth Suslick (2006). Her thesis research focused on the aerosol synthesis of porous materials, and she was the recipient of the T. S. Piper Thesis Research Award from the chemistry department.[2] Her postdoctoral research was conducted at the University of Washington with Xingde Li and Younan Xia. There she was introduced to colloidal metal nanoparticle synthesis and their biomedical applications.

Career

Skrabalak joined the faculty in the department of chemistry at Indiana University in 2008 and advanced to the rank of full professor in 2017.[3] The Provost named Skrabalak a Rudy Professor in 2015. Skrabalak served as the 2016 Nanoscience Chair for the Division of Inorganic Chemistry for the American Chemical Society. She has been an associate editor for the journal Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry) before being appointed editor-in-chief of the journal Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters.[4]

In addition to her group's research innovations, her research team volunteers at Wonderlab, a Museum of Science, Health, & Technology in Bloomington, IN. She also encourages undergraduate students at Indiana University to return to their local high schools to discuss their experiences as science majors through the Science Ambassadors Program.[5]

Skrabalak's team is affiliated with the Indiana Innovation Institute (IN3), a research institute which seeks to address problems of particular interest and relevance to the U.S. Department of Defense.[6] [7] [8] [9]

Research and notable publications

Skrabalak's work centers on the synthesis of new nanomaterials and elucidation of structure-property correlations. Her team has worked across diverse classes of nanomaterials, including metallic nanostructures and advanced transformations thereof as well as metal oxides, sulfides, and nitrides. Skralabak is particularly well-known for application and development of novel synthetic methods to advance nanomaterials with control of crystal shape. These methods include ultrasound spray strategies. The synthesized nanomaterials are applied to applications in catalysis, photocatalysis, separations, chemical sensing, and secured electronics.

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sara E. Skrabalak :Department of Chemistry. www.chem.indiana.edu. 2019-03-10.
  2. Porous materials prepared by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis . 2007 . . Ph.D. . Skrabalak . Sara . . subscription . 351551655.
  3. Web site: Indiana University Bloomington.
  4. Web site: Sara E. Skrabalak appointed as editor-in-chief of Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters . acs.org . 15 December 2020 . 9 November 2020.
  5. Web site: Skrabalak Research Group: Department of Chemistry: Indiana University Bloomington. www.indiana.edu. 2019-03-10.
  6. Web site: High-tech security could be 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. Martin. Steve. 2019-01-07. News at IU. en. 2019-03-11.
  7. Web site: Ensuring the integrity of integrated circuits. Martin. Steve. 2019-01-18. News at IU. en. 2019-03-11.
  8. Web site: Indiana University collaborates with Indiana Innovation Institute. Martin. Steve. 2019-02-04. News at IU. en. 2019-03-11.
  9. Web site: Ultra-secure, ultra-reliable trusted microelectronics development project will focus on hardware first. Service. Purdue News. www.purdue.edu. en. 2019-03-11.
  10. Web site: Sara E. Skrabalak - Cottrell Scholar Awards. Research Corporation for Science Advancement. en. 2019-03-18.
  11. Web site: IU chemists named Sloan Research Fellows: IU News Room: Indiana University. newsinfo.iu.edu. 2019-03-11.
  12. Web site: Sara Skrabalak Named Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awardee :Department of Chemistry. www.chem.indiana.edu. 2019-03-11. 2014-04-30.
  13. Web site: ACS Award In Pure Chemistry Chemical & Engineering News. cen.acs.org. 2019-03-11.
  14. Web site: Sara Skrabalak, FRED Award Winner 2017. Research Corporation for Science Advancement. 13 November 2017 . en. 2019-03-11.
  15. Web site: Professor Sara Skrabalak Named Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation :Department of Chemistry. www.chem.indiana.edu. 2019-03-11. 2017-04-07.
  16. Web site: Sara Skrabalak Fulbright Scholar Program. www.cies.org. 2019-03-11.

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