George Schatz

About

George Schatz is a Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. He holds a BS from Clarkson University and a PhD from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests encompass theory, nanoscience, plasmonics and excitonics, self-assembly, and catalysis. Schatz has received numerous significant recognitions, including being an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Dreyfus Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Max Planck Research Award, among other honors. Schatz has contributed to the scientific community through his research on linking gold nanoparticles, polymers, and molecules using DNA, calculating molecular optical properties through coupled classical electrodynamics and quantum mechanics, and exploring the size dependence of surface plasmon resonances, among other topics.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Chemistry
• Organic chemistry
• Computer Science
• Chemical engineering
• Composite material
• Engineering
• Photochemistry
• Physics

Selected publications

• DNA-Programmable Nanoparticle Crystallization*

  Spherical Nucleic Acids · 2020 · 1180 citations

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• NWChem: Past, present, and future

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 2020 · 671 citations

  Specialized computational chemistry packages have permanently reshaped the landscape of chemical and materials science by providing tools to support and guide experimental efforts and for the prediction of atomistic and electronic properties. In this regard, electronic structure packages have played a special role by using first-principle-driven methodologies to model complex chemical and materials processes. Over the past few decades, the rapid development of computing technologies and the trem…

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• Hierarchically structured bioinspired nanocomposites

  Nature Materials · 2022 · 537 citations

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• Crystallography, Morphology, Electronic Structure, and Transport in Non-Fullerene/Non-Indacenodithienothiophene Polymer:Y6 Solar Cells

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2020 · 347 citations

  . Taken together, this work clarifies the richness of thermal annealing effects in high-efficiency NFA solar cells and tasks for future materials design.

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• Light-Driven Expansion of Spiropyran Hydrogels

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2020 · 331 citations

  The incorporation of molecular switches in organic structures is of great interest in the chemical design of stimuli-responsive materials that mimic the complex functions of living systems. Merocyanine dyes that convert to spiropyran moieties upon exposure to visible light have been extensively studied as they can be incorporated in hydrated covalent networks that will expel water when this conversion occurs and induce a volumetric shrinkage. We report here on a sulfonate-based water-soluble pho…

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Recent grants

• Theory and computation for self-assembly in soft matter

  NSF · $411k · 2009–2013

• Structures and excited state dynamics of self-assembled photonic structures

  NSF · $433k · 2015–2018

• Theoretical Studies of State to State Chemistry

  NSF · $372k · 1996–2000

Frequent coauthors

• Chad A. Mirkin

  Northwestern University

  189 shared

• Leighton O. Jones

  169 shared

• Richard P. Van Duyne

  141 shared

• Mark A. Ratner

  Theralogix (United States)

  125 shared

• Michael R. Wasielewski

  Northwestern University

  95 shared

• Diego Troya

  Virginia Tech

  93 shared

• Kevin L. Kohlstedt

  Northwestern University

  92 shared

• György Lendvay

  Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry

  87 shared

Education

• PhD, Chemistry

  California Institute of Technology

  1976

• BS, Chemistry

  Clarkson University

  1971

Awards & honors

• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
• Dreyfus Fellow
• National Fresenius Award
• Phi Lambda Upsilon Fellow
• American Physical Society Fellow

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