Angela Belcher
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Angela M. Belcher is a biochemist and materials scientist, a MacArthur Fellow, and director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT. Her research focuses on using biological systems for self-assembly of nanoscale structures: for example, genetically engineering viruses (through a process of natural selection) to make proteins that bind to quantum dots[1] or build nanowires.[2]
Her BA in Creative Studies (1991) and PhD in Chemistry (1997) were both acquired at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She was listed by Scientific American magazine as their choice for research leader of the year 2006. The article cited her work on the M13 virus, which was studded with gold and cobalt oxide to produce nanowires.
[edit] References
- ^ Lee, Seung-Wuk; Chuanbin Mao, Christine E. Flynn, and Angela M. Belcher (May 2002). "Ordering of Quantum Dots Using Genetically Engineered Viruses". Science 296: 892–895. DOI:10.1126/science.1068054.
- ^ Mao, Chuanbin; et al. (January 2004). "Virus-Based Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanowires". Science 303: 213–217. DOI:10.1126/science.1092740.