Miguel José Yacamán
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Miguel José Yacamán (born in 1946 in Córdoba, Veracruz) is a Mexican physicist who has made many contributions to the field of nanotechnology. He earned his Ph.D in physics in 1972 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he was later director of the Institute of Physics from 1983-1991. He is currently a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
[edit] Research
Dr. Yacaman has done research on the structure and properties of nanoparticles, including metals, semiconductors and magnetic materials. He has also worked on synthesis and characterization of new materials (most of them nanoparticles), surfaces and interfaces, defects in solids, electron diffraction and imagining theory, quasicrystals, archaeological materials, catalysis and physics and chemistry of asphaltenes.
Dr. Yacaman is the author of 9 books and over 200 technical papers on the field, with more than 2000 citations. He is an associate editor of Acta and Scripta Metallurgica, Catalysis Letters, Journal of Nanostructured Materials, Microscopy Research and Techniques and Materials Chemistry, among others.
Additionally, in June of 2005, the student Jose Luis Elechiguerra under the advisement of Dr. Yacaman published in a groundbreaking report for the first time ever the inhibitory properties of silver nanoparticles against HIV-1.
[edit] Honors and distinctions
Dr. Yacaman has held the Guggenheim Fellowship, and was awarded numerous prizes such as the National Prize of Sciences of Mexico, and the Prize of the National Academy of Mexico in Exact Sciences. He is a member of the Mexican National Research System (level III), and in May 2003 he was appointed National Researcher of Excellence by CONACyT.
[edit] External links
- Miguel Yacaman's Home Page at UT Austin
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