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Virtual Issue Celebrating the Life and Career of Millie Dresselhaus The Queen of Carbon Science
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so much of her energy, imagination, and intellect to the scientific community.
o celebrate and honor Mildred Dresselhaus’ incredibly productive research career in the area of nanoscience and materials, nine ACS journals have compiled this virtual issue of 31 of her publications and as well as other articles about and with her. While representing a tiny fraction of her contributions
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J. Phys. Chem. C • Transferring and Identification of Single- and Few-Layer Graphene on Arbitrary Substrates (J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112 (46), 17741−17744) • Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes in 1997 and 2007 (J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111 (48), 17887−17893) • Raman Spectroscopy as a Tool to Address Individual Graphene Layers in Few-Layer Graphene J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116 (35), 19046−19050 • Raman Spectra Variation of Partially Suspended Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111 (5), 1983−1987 J. Phys. Chem. B • Generating Suspended Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Across a Large Surface Area via Patterning SelfAssembled Catalyst-Containing Block Copolymer Thin Films (J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110 (22), 10585−10589) J. Phys. Chem. Lett. • Large Variations of the Raman Signal in the Spectra of Twisted Bilayer Graphene on a BN Substrate (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3 (6), 796−799) J. Am. Chem. Soc. • A Sensitive Phonon-Based Probe for Structure Identification of 1T′ MoTe2 (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03445) • CVD Synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from Gold Nanoparticle Catalysts (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129 (6), 1516−1517) Acc. Chem. Res. • Raman Spectroscopy and in Situ Raman Spectroelectrochemistry of Isotopically Engineered Graphene Systems (Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 48 (1), 111−118) • Lighting Up the Raman Signal of Molecules in the Vicinity of Graphene Related Materials (Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 48 (7), 1862−1870) • Single Nanotube Raman Spectroscopy (Acc. Chem. Res. 2002, 35 (12), 1070−1078) Chem. Mater. • Processing and Characterization of Single-Crystalline Ultrafine Bismuth Nanowires (Chem. Mater. 1999, 11 (7), 1659−1665) • Ultraviolet-Visible Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Selected Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons and Organometallics on Hexagonal Graphite and Boron Nitride (Chem. Mater. 1994, 6 (2), 211−215)
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to scientific knowledge, these publications capture the enormous breadth of her interests in materials, which range from understanding complex physical phenomena, such as her fundamental work on thermoelectrics, to techniques that enabled others to better understand their materials, such as Raman characterization of carbon nanostructures, to new syntheses of nanomaterials. Several editorials have recently been written about Millie’s remarkable career, and here we let her research contributions speak for themselves.1−3 We hope that you will spend a few quiet moments reflecting upon this virtual issue, and remember this extraordinarily modest and iconic scientist who dedicated her life to her passion and gave © 2017 American Chemical Society
VIRTUAL ISSUE
Published: June 27, 2017 5017
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02398 Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 5017−5018
Chemistry of Materials
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Langmuir • Iron-Doped Carbon Aerogels: Novel Porous Substrates for Direct Growth of Carbon Nanotubes (Langmuir 2007, 23 (9), 5161−5166) • Activated Carbon Aerogels (Langmuir 1996, 12 (26), 6167−6169) Nano Lett. • Large Area, Few-Layer Graphene Films on Arbitrary Substrates by Chemical Vapor Deposition (Nano Lett. 2009, 9 (1), 30−35) • Perspectives on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Raman Spectroscopy (Nano Lett. 2010, 10 (3), 751− 758) • Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit in Nanostructured p-type Silicon Germanium Bulk Alloys (Nano Lett. 2008, 8 (12), 4670−4674) • Role of Kinetic Factors in Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of Uniform Large Area Graphene Using Copper Catalyst (Nano Lett. 2010, 10 (10), 4128− 4133) • Synthesis of Few-Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride Thin Film by Chemical Vapor Deposition (Nano Lett. 2010, 10 (10), 4134−4139) • Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Core−Shell and Tubular Nanowires (Nano Lett. 2005, 5 (6), 1111− 1115) • Smallest Freestanding Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (Nano Lett. 2003, 3 (7), 887−889) ACS Nano • Synthesis and Characterization of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Film as a Dielectric Layer for Graphene Devices (ACS Nano 2012, 6 (10), 8583−8590) • The Influence of Strong Electron and Hole Doping on the Raman Intensity of Chemical Vapor-Deposition Graphene (ACS Nano 2010, 4 (10), 6055−6063) • Raman Spectroscopy of Boron-Doped Single-Layer Graphene (ACS Nano 2012, 6 (7), 6293−6300) • Second-Order Overtone and Combination Raman Modes of Graphene Layers in the Range of 1690− 2150 cm−1 (ACS Nano 2011, 5 (3), 1600−1605) • Selective Optical Property Modification of DoubleWalled Carbon Nanotubes by Fluorination (ACS Nano 2008, 2 (3), 485−488) • Electrochemical Charging of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (ACS Nano 2009, 3 (8), 2320− 2328) • Impact of Chlorine Functionalization on High-Mobility Chemical Vapor Deposition Grown Graphene (ACS Nano 2013, 7 (8), 7262−7270) • A Conversation with Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus: A Career in Carbon Nanomaterials (ACS Nano 2009, 3 (9), 2434−2440) • Mildred S. Dresselhaus (1930−2017): A Pinnacle of Scholarship (ACS Nano 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03868)
Cindy J. Burrows, Editor-in-Chief of Accounts of Chemical Research Francoise M. Winnick, Editor-in-Chief of Langmuir A. Paul Alivisatos, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Nano Letters Charles M. Lieber, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Nano Letters Paul S. Weiss, Editor-in-Chief of ACS Nano Jillian M. Buriak, Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry of Materials
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
ORCID
George C. Schatz: 0000-0001-5837-4740 Peter J. Stang: 0000-0002-2307-0576 Paul S. Weiss: 0000-0001-5527-6248 Jillian M. Buriak: 0000-0002-9567-4328 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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REFERENCES
(1) http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i9/Nanoscience-pioneer-MillieDresselhaus-dies-at-86.html?type=paidArticleContent. (2) Li, Y.; Buriak, J. M.; Gogotsi, Y.; Hersam, M. C.; Kagan, C. R.; Weiss, P. S. Prof. Millie Dresselhaus (1930−2017), Carbon Nanomaterials Pioneer. ACS Nano 2017, 11, 2307−2308. (3) Buriak, J. M. Goodbye Millie − Bidding Adieu to a Remarkable Materials Scientist: Remembering Mildred S. Dresselhaus. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 1867−1867.
George C. Schatz, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Greg D. Scholes, Deputy Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Peter J. Stang, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the American Chemical Society 5018
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02398 Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 5017−5018
