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A new color comes from out of the blue | Mas Subramanian | TEDxSalem
Mas Subramanian is a solid-state chemist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and currently holds the Milton Harris Chair Professor of Materials Science in the Department of Chemistry. His work in solid-state chemistry on functional inorganic materials has led to the improvement of materials, devices, and the fundamentals of structure-property relationships.
Contents
- A new color comes from out of the blue Mas Subramanian TEDxSalem
- Scientists found a new shade of blue
- Education
- Scientific career
- Honors and awards
- References
Scientists found a new shade of blue
Education
Subramanian received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Madras, in 1975 and received a M.S in Inorganic Chemistry from the same university in 1977. In 1982 Mas completed his Ph.D in Solid State Chemistry on pyrochlore oxides at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, under the guidance of Professor G. V. Subba Rao. The introduction to his thesis is a pyrochlore review that remains his most cited work to date. From 1982-1984 he was a Post Doctoral Fellow under the guidance of Abraham Clearfield at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
Scientific career
He later joined the Central R&D department at E.I. duPont de Nemours Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware. He was eventually appointed as a DuPont Research Fellow. He has made numerous contributions to the fields of ceramics, superconductors, dielectrics, catalysis, thermoelectrics, multiferroics, ionic conductors, and organic synthesis, authoring more than 300 research publications and holding 55 patents. His notable discoveries include: zeolites as precursors to electronic ceramics, new Bi and Tl-containing superconductors, catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), colossal dielectrics (CCTO), colossal magnetoresistance (GMR) oxides, and skutterudite thermoelectrics. His work on fluoroaromatic synthesis is one of his most notable achievements. His publications have received nearly 20,000 citations (h-index = 59).
Subramanian has served as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Materials Chemistry (1995-2001), Chemistry of Materials (2000-2006), Materials Research Bulletin (2006–present), and the Journal of Solid State Chemistry (2009–present), and is continues to serve as an editor for two international academic journals, Solid State Sciences, and Progress in Solid State Chemistry.
In 2006, Subramanian joined Oregon State University as the Milton Harris Chair Professor of Materials Science, where his research is dedicated to the design and synthesis of novel functional materials for emerging applications in energy conversion and electronics. He has published more than 100 scientific articles since while at Oregon State University, on topics such as pigments, thermoelectrics, high-temperature superconductivity, magnetoresistivity, solid fast ion conductors, high-K dielectrics, and topological insulators. In 2009, his team discovered a novel durable blue pigment, YInMn Blue.
Honors and awards
