Jill Millstone
American chemist
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Jill Millstone is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on metal-ligand chemistry in nanoparticle synthesis. She is the American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer for 2018.
Metal ligand chemistry
Jill Millstone | |
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| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University Northwestern University |
| Known for | Nanoparticle synthesis Metal ligand chemistry |
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| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh |
Early life and education
Millstone earned her bachelor's in chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in 2003.[1][2] She earned a PhD in materials chemistry at Northwestern University, working with Chad Mirkin.[1] She was awarded the Northwestern University graduate school presidential fellowship.[3]
Research and career
Millstone worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Jean Fréchet and Paul Alivisatos at University of California, Berkeley.[1] She was appointed to the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, earning a National Science Foundation career award.[1][4]
In 2013 she developed nanoscale alloys that emitted so much near-infrared light they could be used in to visualise cells.[5] Millstone uses small organic molecules to hold together metallic nanoparticles.[5] Millstone's lab concentrates on the chemical synthesis of multifunctional nanoparticles and techniques to study their structural-property relationships.[6] They work on nanoparticle colloidal arrays and their mechanochemistry.[3] They use nuclear magnetic resonance, photoemission spectroscopy and electron microscopy.[7] She won the 2015 Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid & Surfactant Science.[8]
In June 2018 Millstone was announced the 2018 American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer.[9][1] She won the University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Research Award.[10] She is an associate editor at ACS Nano.[11][12]