Jill Millstone

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.

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

Early life and education

Millstone earned her Bachelors 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

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
  1. "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. "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. "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.
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