Steven Chu

About

Professor Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan Professor of Physics, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. The page indicates his association with Stanford and his roles across multiple departments, highlighting his interdisciplinary expertise. His research focus involves physics, molecular and cellular physiology, and energy science and engineering, reflecting a broad engagement with fundamental scientific questions and their applications. The page does not provide detailed information about his specific research contributions, background, or career history. It primarily lists his titles, contact information, and his affiliation with the Stanford Chu Group, along with a list of current and former students and colleagues. No additional biographical or research content is included in the provided text.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Medicine
• Chemistry
• Environmental science
• Pulp and paper industry
• Composite material
• Biology
• Genetics
• Oceanography
• Mathematics

Selected publications

• Can N95 Respirators Be Reused after Disinfection? How Many Times?

  ACS Nano · 2020 · 446 citations

  The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a major shortage of N95 respirators, which are essential for protecting healthcare professionals and the general public who may come into contact with the virus. Thus, it is essential to determine how we can reuse respirators and other personal protective equipment in these urgent times. We investigated multiple commonly used disinfection schemes on media with particle filtration efficiency of 95%. Heating was recently found to inactiva…

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• Lithium Extraction from Seawater through Pulsed Electrochemical Intercalation

  Joule · 2020 · 340 citations

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• Household Materials Selection for Homemade Cloth Face Coverings and Their Filtration Efficiency Enhancement with Triboelectric Charging

  Nano Letters · 2020 · 278 citations

  The COVID-19 pandemic is currently causing a severe disruption and shortage in the global supply chain of necessary personal protective equipment (e.g., N95 respirators). The U.S. CDC has recommended use of household cloth by the general public to make cloth face coverings as a method of source control. We evaluated the filtration properties of natural and synthetic materials using a modified procedure for N95 respirator approval. Common fabrics of cotton, polyester, nylon, and silk had filtrati…

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• Synergistic enhancement of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to C2 oxygenates at nitrogen-doped nanodiamonds/Cu interface

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2020 · 261 citations

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• Trends of extreme US weather events in the changing climate

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022-11-14 · 57 citations

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  Trends in extreme 100-y events of temperature and rainfall amounts in the continental United States are estimated, to see effects of climate change. This is a nontrivial statistical problem because climate change effects have to be extracted from "noisy" weather data within a limited time range. We use nonparametric Bayesian methods to estimate the trends of extreme events that have occurred between 1979 and 2019, based on data for temperature and rainfall. We focus on 100-y events for each mont…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant P01CA112181

  NIH · $4.0M · 2011

• NIH Grant P01GM066275

  NIH · $25.1M · 2020

• Noninvasive deep-tissue single-cell imaging and nanoprobe development

  NIH · $1.6M · 2018–2023

Frequent coauthors

• Yi Cui

  Stanford University

  62 shared

• Axel T. Brünger

  Stanford University

  55 shared

• Holger Müller

  44 shared

• Harold D. Kim

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  42 shared

• Yan‐Kai Tzeng

  41 shared

• G. M. Ter–Akopian

  Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

  38 shared

• M. A. Stoyer

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  37 shared

• Adam de la Zerda

  Stanford University

  35 shared

Labs

• The Chu GroupPI

Education

• B.S., Mathematics

  University of Rochester

• B.S., Physics

  University of Rochester

• Ph.D., Physics

  University of California, Berkeley

Awards & honors

• 1997 Nobel Prize for laser cooling and optical trapping of a…

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