Jill Millstone

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Jill Millstone
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Northwestern University
Known forNanoparticle synthesis
Metal ligand chemistry
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh

Jill Millstone is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on metal-ligand chemistry in nanoparticle synthesis. She is the American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer for 2018.

Early life and education[edit]

Millstone earned her bachelor's in chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in 2003.[1][2] She earned a PhD in materials chemistry at Northwestern University, working with Chad Mirkin.[1] She was awarded the Northwestern University graduate school presidential fellowship.[3]

Research and career[edit]

Millstone worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Jean Fréchet and Paul Alivisatos at University of California, Berkeley.[1] She was appointed to the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, earning a National Science Foundation career award.[1][4]

In 2013 she developed nanoscale alloys that emitted so much near-infrared light they could be used in to visualise cells.[5] Millstone uses small organic molecules to hold together metallic nanoparticles.[5] Millstone's lab concentrates on the chemical synthesis of multifunctional nanoparticles and techniques to study their structural-property relationships.[6] They work on nanoparticle colloidal arrays and their mechanochemistry.[3] They use nuclear magnetic resonance, photoemission spectroscopy and electron microscopy.[7] She won the 2015 Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid & Surfactant Science.[8]

In June 2018 Millstone was announced the 2018 American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer.[9][1] She won the University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Research Award.[10] She is an associate editor at ACS Nano.[11][12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Kavli Lecture Series - American Chemical Society". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  2. ^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "News and Notes - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  3. ^ a b "Jill Millstone | Department of Chemistry | University of Pittsburgh". www.chem.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  4. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1253143 - CAREER: Surface Chemistry-Controlled Formation of Colloidal Nanoparticle Alloys". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  5. ^ a b "Pitt Chemists Demonstrate Nanoscale Alloys So Bright They Could Have Potential Medical Applications | University of Pittsburgh News". www.news.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  6. ^ "The Millstone Lab - Home". www.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  7. ^ "Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology - Metal-Ligand Chemistry in Multimetallic Nanoparticle Synthesis and Performance". in.bgu.ac.il. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  8. ^ "Unilever Award". Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  9. ^ "Prof. Jill Millstone has been selected as the Kavli Emerging Leader Speaker for 2019. | Department of Chemistry | University of Pittsburgh". www.chem.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  10. ^ "Recent Award Winners | Office of the Chancellor | University of Pittsburgh". chancellor.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  11. ^ "Jill Millstone has Joined ACS Nano as an Associate Editor | Pittsburgh Quantum Institute". www.pqi.org. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  12. ^ Chan, Warren W. C.; Chhowalla, Manish; Farokhzad, Omid; Glotzer, Sharon; Gogotsi, Yury; Hafner, Jason H.; Hammond, Paula T.; Hersam, Mark C.; Javey, Ali (2017-12-26). "A Big Year Ahead for Nano in 2018". ACS Nano. 11 (12): 11755–11757. doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b08851. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 29294604.