The awards recognize Georgia Tech researchers andteams whose work has transformed their disciplines, transformed teaching andresearch, and made significant contributions to industry in Georgia and thenation. These recipients exemplify innovative thought, research excellence, andcommitment to the motto on Georgia Tech's Seal, "Progress andService."
Among a number of awards presented during thecelebration, The Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics was awarded the MaterialsAward that recognizes a Georgia Tech researcher or research group thathas successfully established strong research relationships with industry andmade significant advances in materials science leading to strong industrycollaborations, technology transfer, and commercialization of new technologies.
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Thin Film Electronics, PARC, Western Michigan University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology Receive Honors in Innovation, R&D, and Technology Leadership in Education.
The Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology was the recipient of the Technology Leadership in Education Award. This award recognizes and honors outstanding contributions to the flexible and printed electronics industry through education. Judging was based on the quality of education, practical applicability, number of students completing the course, and degree of focus on flexible, printed electronics.
]]>Dr. Reynolds will be joining the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics in January of 2012.
Dr. Reynolds comes from the University of Florida, where he has built an internationally recognized program in the synthesis of materials for organic electronics. He will be affiliated with the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School and Materials Science and Engineering.
]]>The three new Regents' Professors at Georgia Tech are Mark Prausnitz, professor and director of the Center for Drug Design, Development and Delivery in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Seth Marder, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and founding director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics in the colleges of Engineering and Sciences; and Gary Schuster, Vasser Woolley Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Two Regents' Researchers appointed include Gisele Bennett, professor and director of the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory in the Georgia Tech Research Institute; and Suzanne Eskin, principal research scientist in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
"We are immensely proud of our new Georgia Tech Regents' Professors and Researchers," said G. P. "Bud" Peterson, Georgia Tech's president. "They are conducting breakthrough research that is gaining national attention. The fact that we have five Georgia Tech faculty members receiving this honor from the Board of Regents in one year is a reflection of the caliber of scholars we have at Tech."
A Regents' Professorship and Regents' Researcher title represents the highest academic status bestowed by the University System of Georgia. It is meant to recognize a substantial, significant and ongoing record of scholarly achievement that has earned high national esteem over a sustained period.
Prausnitz has received international acclaim for his research on biophysical methods of drug delivery, which employ microneedles, ultrasound, lasers, electric fields, heat, convective forces and other physical means to control the transport of drugs, proteins, genes and vaccines into and within the body.
Marder is working on bringing nanotechnology out of the lab and into the marketplace. Using a process known as two-photon absorption, the research groups of Marder and colleague Joseph Perry are developing a broad set of materials for 3D micro- and nanolithography.
Schuster is a nationally known scholar and researcher with an extensive list of published articles on topics ranging from biochemistry through physical chemistry, as well as a number of scientific discoveries with commercial applications. He also held top leadership roles at Georgia Tech such as interim president, provost and dean of the College of Sciences.
Bennett has been praised for the programs she has built around automatic identification technologies using radio frequency identification and container security. Her research activities include the study of optical coherence imaging systems.
Eskin has contributed to research on vascular biology, cardiovascular tissue engineering and gene expression of vascular cells. She studies the comparative effects of mechanical forces accompanying blood flow and pressure on the blood vessel wall.
The titles are awarded by the Board of Regents, which governs the University System of Georgia, upon the unanimous recommendation of the president, the chief academic officer, the appropriate academic dean and three other faculty members named by the president, and upon the approval of the chancellor and the committee on academic affairs.
]]>Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the company's focus is on organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and organic solar technology, specifically the conductive inks and process technologies that enable those and other similar applications.
As a member of the program, Plextronics will connect to the faculty expertise and highly trained student and graduates of the Center as well as an international network of partners in the field of organic photonics and electronics. This includes insider information on the latest research and discoveries and invitations to exclusive events.
When asked about joining the program, Andy Hannah, President and Chief Executive Officer of Plextronics stated, "We look forward to sustaining collaborations with other industry leaders that are part of COPE's Industrial Affiliates Program to bring forth the best in research and development of organic electronics."
Bernard Kippelen, Director of the Center stated, "COPE is extremely pleased to count Plextronics among its Industrial Affiliates. Having a company like Plextronics with strong recognition in the emerging printed electronics industry join our Center speaks for the high quality of the science and engineering carried-out by our faculty and researchers."
]]>Marder was granted the honor for his "seminal contributions to the theory-inspired design, synthesis, characterization and application of organic second- and third-order nonlinear optical, photorefractive and electronic materials," according to materials provided by the ACS.
Marder is known for his work in developing materials for nonlinear optics as well as organic electronics and photonics. He joined Georgia Tech in 2003 and is the founding director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics. Before that he was at the University of Arizona, the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 2009, Marder received Georgia Tech's Outstanding Award for Research Program Development and was named a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, SPIE, the Optical Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Marder has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers and holds 18 patents. He is co-founder of Arizona Microsystems, LLC; Focal Point, LLC; and LumoFlex, LLC.
]]>El-Sayed was listed as number 17 in Thomson-Reuters listing of the top chemists of the past decade. The ranking covers the time period from January 2000 to October 2010. In that time, El-Sayed published 111 papers in chemistry journals with 10,135 citations. The list also rates the number of citations per paper as a way to measure scientists' impact on the field, and El-Sayed received 91.31 in this category.
El-Sayed was presented with the U.S. National Medal of Science in 2007 by then-President George W. Bush. His citation reads: "for his seminal and creative contributions to our understanding of the electronic and optical properties of nano-materials and to their applications in nano-catalysis and nano-medicine, for his humanitarian efforts of exchange among countries and for his role in developing the scientific leadership of tomorrow." In the following year, he was listed among the 100 most influential people in the state of Georgia.
At Georgia Tech, El-Sayed is the director of the Laser Dynamics Laboratory. His lab studies the conversion of electronic energy in a wide variety of structures such as semiconductors (quantum dots) and metallic nanostructures. Among his most promising current areas of research are using lasers and gold nanorods to fight cancerous tumors under the skin.
El-Sayed came to Georgia Tech in 1994 and is currently the Julius Brown Chair and Regents' Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He was on the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1961-94. He earned his doctorate from Florida State University and his bachelor's degree from Ain Shams University in Egypt.
Jean-Luc Bredas was listed as number 84 in Thomson-Reuters listing of the top materials scientists of the past decade. In that time, Bredas published 50 papers in materials science journals with 2,177 citations and an impact factor of 43.54.
Bredas was a member of the team that received the Descartes Prize of the European Union in 2003. He was awarded the Quinquennial Prize of the National Fund for Scientific Research in Belgium in 2000 and the Francqui Prize in 1997. In 2010, he received the Charles H. Stone Award of the American Chemical Society.
At Georgia Tech, Bredas is a member of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (for which he is in charge of international relations) and a co-director of the Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology. His work seeks to uncover the chemical and physical properties of novel organic materials and includes research on organic solar cells as well as organic light-emitting diodes for potential use in visual displays and lighting.
Bredas is a Regents' Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech. He is also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and the Vasser Woolley and Georgia Research Alliance Chair in Molecular Design. He holds an extraordinary professorship at the University of Mons in Belgium and an honorary professorship at the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Bredas came to Tech in 2003 from the University of Arizona. He earned his doctoral and bachelor's degrees from the University of Namur in Belgium.
]]>Thin Film Electronics, PARC, Western Michigan University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology Receive Honors in Innovation, R&D, and Technology Leadership in Education.
The Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology was the recipient of the Technology Leadership in Education Award. This award recognizes and honors outstanding contributions to the flexible and printed electronics industry through education. Judging was based on the quality of education, practical applicability, number of students completing the course, and degree of focus on flexible, printed electronics.
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