Faculty

Room: Tech K260
Phone: 847-467-1541
Phone(ANL): 630-252-5544
Email: m-kanatzidis@northwestern.edu
Kanatzidis Research Group Website
Division: Inorganic
Research Interests: Environmental, Inorganic, Materials, Physical, Analytical
B.S.: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1979
Ph.D.: University of Iowa 1984

Program Assistant: Mara Martini

Research Statement

Inorganic chemistry, solid state and coordination chemistry of chalcogenide compounds. Design of new materials, exploratory synthesis, thermoelectric materials, nanostructured materials, intermetallics, mesoporous semiconductors, phase-change materials, conducting polymers, intercalation chemistry applications of new materials.

Selected Publications

"Unconventional superconductivity in Ba_0.6K_0.4Fe₂As₂ from inelastic neutron scattering" A.D. Christianson, E.A. Goremychkin, R. Osborn, S. Rosenkranz, M.D. Lumsden, C.D. Malliakas, I.S.Todorov, H. Claus, D.Y. Chung, M.G. Kanatzidis, R.I. Bewley, T. Guidi, Nature 2008 456 (7224) 930-932.

"Mesoporous germanium-rich chalcogenido frameworks with highly polarizable surfaces and relevance to gas separation" G.S. Armatas, M.G. Kanatzidis, Nature Materials 2009 8 (3) 217-222.

"R₃Au_6+xAl₂₆T (R = Ca, Sr, Eu, Yb; T = Early Transition Metal): a Large Family of Compounds with a Stuffed BaHg11 Structure Type Grown from Aluminum Flux" S. E. Latturner, D. Bilc, S.D. Mahanti, M.G. Kanatzidis, Inorganic Chemistry 2009 48 (4) 1346-1355.

"Analysis of Nanostructuring in High Figure-of-Merit Ag_1-xPb_mSbTe_2+m Thermoelectric Materials" B.A. Cook, M.J. Kramer, J.L. Harringa, M.K. Han, D.Y. Chung, M.G. Kanatzidis, Advanced Functional Materials 2009 19 (8) 1254-1259.

"Spongy chalcogels of non-platinum metals act as effective hydrodesulfurization catalysts" S. Bag, A.F. Gaudette, M.E. Bussell, et al. Nature Chemistry 2009 1 (3) 217-224.

"Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: The New Paradigm?" M.G. Kanatzidis Chemistry of Materials 2010 22 (3) 648-659.

"Selective incarceration of caesium ions by Venus flytrap action of a flexible framework sulfide" N. Ding, M.G. Kanatzidis Nature Chemistry 2010 2 (3) 187-191.

"Strongly Nonlinear Optical Glass Fibers from Noncentrolsymmetric Phase-Change Chalcogenide Materials" I. Chung, J.I. Jang, C.D. Malliakas, et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010 132 (1) 384-389.

"Soluble Semiconductors AAsSe₂ (A = Li, Na) with a Direct-Band-Gap and Strong Second Harmonic Generation: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study" T.K. Bera, J.I. Jang, J.H. Song, et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010 132 (10) 3484-3495.

"On the Origin of Increased Phonon Scattering in Nanostructured PbTe Based Thermoelectric Materials" J.Q. He, J.R. Sootsman, S.N. Girard, et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010 132 (25) 8669-8675.

Awards

• Presidential Young Investigator Award. National Science Foundation, 1989-1994
• ACS Inorganic Chemistry Division Award: EXXON Faculty Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry, 1990
• Beckman Young Investigator, 1992-1994
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 1991-1993
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar 1993-1998
• Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty Award 1998
• Sigma Xi 2000 Senior Meritorious Faculty Award
• University Distinguished Professor MSU 2001
• John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 2002
• Alexander von Humboldt Prize, 2003
• Morley Medal, American Chemical Society, Cleveland Section, 2003
• Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor, Northwestern University 2006
• MRS Fellow 2010