Richard W. Siegel

Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Engineering and Director, Nanotechnology Center

Contact & Personal Information

Phone: (518) 276-8846

Fax: (518) 276-6540

Email: rwsiegel@rpi.edu

Mailing Address:
Materials Research Center
rm: MRC 218
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Troy, New York
12180

Richard W. Siegel's homepage

Research Center Affiliations

Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center

Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center

National Science Foundation Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois
Metallurgy

M.S., University of Illinois
Physics

B.A., Williams College
Physics

Professional Background

Dr. Siegel serves on the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He has also chaired the World Technology Evaluation Center worldwide study of nanostructure science and technology that led to the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative. He is the past chairman of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials and earlier served on the U.S. National Materials Advisory Board Committee on Materials with Submicron-Sized Microstructures. He was the co-chairman of the Study Panel on Clusters and Cluster-Assembled Materials for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Siegel was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1966 to 1976 and at Argonne National Laboratory from 1974 to 1995. He has been at Rensselaer since 1995, serving as Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering from 1995 to 2000. He has authored more than 260 publications and numerous patents (11 issued, 7 pending) in the areas of defects in metals; diffusion; and most recently on the synthesis and processing, characterization, properties, and applications of nanophase materials, including ceramics, metals, composites, and biomaterials. Siegel also has presented more than 475 invited lectures around the world and has edited 10 books on these subjects. Science Watch listed him as the fourth most highly cited author in materials science from 1990 through 1994.

Research

Nanomaterials

Microstructures

Metallurgy

Ceramic Materials

Biomaterials

Nanotechnology

Research Bio

Synthesis and processing, characterization, properties, and applications of nanostructured materials, including ceramics, metals, composites, and biomaterials; creation of nanoscale building blocks, especially inorganic nanoparticles.

Awards

Dr. Siegel is an honorary member of the Materials Research Societies of India and Japan, a 1994 recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award in Germany, and he presented the 1996 MacDonald Lecture in Canada. He was recently named a RIKEN Eminent Scientist in Japan and received a 2003 Deutsche Bank Prize in Germany.

Publications

Cytochrome c on Silica Nanoparticles: Influence of Nanoparticle Size on Protein Structure, Stability, and Activity (2009)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanomaterials
Crystal Nucleation and Growth in Poly(ethylene terephthalate)/Alumina-Nanoparticle Composites (2008)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Using Centrosome Fragments in the Directed Assembly of Microtubules (2008)
Type: Article
Topic: Biotechnology
High Refractive Index TiO2-Nanoparticle-Loaded Encapsulants for Light-Emitting Diodes (2008)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Thermal Resistance of the Native Interface between Vertically Aligned Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Arrays and their SiO2/Si Substrate (2008)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
New Rules for the Old Game of Porous Micro- and Nanoparticle Synthesis (2008)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Tribological Investigation of the Effects of Particle Size, Loading and Crystallinity on Poly(ethylene) Terephthalate Nanocomposites (2008)
Type: Article
Topic: Tribology
Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Adhesion and Proliferation in Response to Ceramic Chemistry and Nanoscale Topography (2008)
Type: Article
Topic: Biotechnology
Improving Dielectric Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites through Nanoparticle Surface Modification (2007)
Type: Chapter
Topic: Nanotechnology
The Generation of Domain Boundaries in Catalytically-Grown Carbon Nanotubes (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
The Role of Dislocations at the Catalyst-Wall Interface in Carbon Nanotube Growth (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology

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