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Website:

Richard Kaner's Home Page.

Email Address:

kaner@chem.ucla.edu

Work Email Address:

rbk@chem.ucla.edu

Laboratory Address:

Mol Sci Bldg 2220

Work Address:

Mol Sci Bldg 2515

Work Phone Number:

1 (310) 825-5346

Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

A Short Biography:

Professor Kaner received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1984 from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the following professional societies: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Associate Editor for Materials Research Bulletin; member of the American Chemical Society; the Electrochemical Society; and the Materials Research Society.

Awards and Honors:

UCLA UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize (2002-2004) ; Eka-Granules Lecturer University of Tasmania ; Visiting Professor University of Wollongong ; American Chemical Society Buck Whitney Research Award ; Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar ; National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator ; American Chemical Society Member ; Electrochemical Society Member ; Materials Research Bulletin Associate Editor ; Materials Research Society Member ; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow ; Packard Fellow (1989-1994) ; Australian-American Fulbright Fellow ; Guggenheim Fellow ; Sloan Fellow ; American Chemical Society Exxon Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry

Research Interest:

Professor Kaner and his research group concentrate on the synthesis and characterization of new materials. Four important research areas are targeted: 1) the development of conducting polymer nanofibers with applications in flash welding, sensors, artificial muscles and memory devices; 2) the expedient low temperature initiated synthesis of high temperature inorganic materials, 3) the synthesis and characterization of ultra-incompressible, hard materials; and 4) new synthetic routes to carbon based materials and composites.

Detailed Biography:

Areas of Interest
Nanostructured Conducting Polymers with Applications for Sensors, Actuators, Molecular Memory and Flash Welding; Rapid Synthetic Routes to Refractory Materials; Ultra-incompressible, Hard Materials; New Routes to Carbon-based Materials and Composites.

Publications:

Huang, J Kaner, RB The intrinsic nanofibrillar morphology of polyaniline Chemical Communications , 2006; (4): 367-76.

Kaner, RB Gilman, JJ Tolbert, SH Materials science. Designing superhard materials Science, 2005; 308(5726): 1268-9.

Cumberland, RW Weinberger, MB Gilman, JJ Clark, SM Tolbert, SH Kaner, RB Osmium diboride, an ultra-incompressible, hard material Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2005; 127(20): 7264-5.

Li, D Kaner, RB Processable stabilizer-free polyaniline nanofiber aqueous colloids Chemical Communications, 2005; (26): 3286-8.

Jiaxing Huang, Shabnam Virji, Bruce H. Weiller and Richard B. Kaner "Nanostructured Polyaniline Sensors" (invited "Concept" paper), Chem. Eur. J., 2004; 10: 1314.

Shabnam Virji, Jiaxing Huang, Richard B. Kaner and Bruce H. Weiller "Polyaniline Nanofibers as Gas Sensors: Response to Classes of Vapors and Comparison to Thin Films", Nano Lett., 2004; 4(3): 591.

Huang, J Kaner, RB A general chemical route to polyaniline nanofibers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. , 2004; 126(3): 851-5.

Huang, J Kaner, RB Flash welding of conducting polymer nanofibres. Nature materials. , 2004; 3(11): 783-6.

Huang, J Virji, S Weiller, BH Kaner, RB Nanostructured polyaniline sensors. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) , 2004; 10(6): 1314-9.

Jiaxing Huang, Veronica M. Egan, Hailan Guo, Jeong-Yeol Yoon, Alejandro L. Briseno, Iris E. Rauda, Robin L. Garrell, Charles M. Knobler, Feimeng Zhou and Richard B. Kaner "Enantioselective Discrimination of D- and L-Phenylalanine by Chiral Polyaniline Thin Films", Adv. Mater., 2003; 15(1158): .

Richard Kaner, Ph.D.