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Richard Kaner, Ph.D.

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering

Education:

Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1984

Academic Experience:

Fellowships:

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Packard Fellow (1989-1994)
2005 Australian-American Fulbright Fellow
1996 Guggenheim Fellow
1993 Sloan Fellow
1989 American Chemical Society, Exxon Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry

Honors and Awards:

UCLA, UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize (2002-2004)
2005 Eka-Granules Lecturer University of Tasmania
2005 Visiting Professor University of Wollongong
1997 American Chemical Society, Buck Whitney Research Award
1991 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
1987 National Science Foundation, Presidential Young Investigator

Certifications:

Professional Societies:

American Chemical Society , Member
Electrochemical Society , Member
Materials Research Bulletin, Associate Editor
Materials Research Society , Member

Contact Information:

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

Home Page:	http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/kaner/
ARR Papers:	http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu/arr/personnel-papers?personnel_id=113194

Work Phone Number:	1 (310) 825-5346

Research Interests:

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.

Technical 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.

Additional Information:

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.

Selected Publications:

Tung, V. C. Chen, L. M. Allen, M. J. Wassei, J. K. Nelson, K. Kaner, R. B. Yang, Y. , Low-temperature solution processing of graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid materials for high-performance transparent conductors, Nano Lett, 2009, 9 (5), 1949-55.

Tran, H. D. Kaner, R. B. , A general synthetic route to nanofibers of polyaniline derivatives, Chem Commun (Camb), 2006, volume (37), 3915-7.

Li, D. Kaner, R. B. , Shape and aggregation control of nanoparticles: not shaken, not stirred, J Am Chem Soc, 2006, 128 (3), 968-75.

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. Kaner, R. B. , Flash welding of conducting polymer nanofibres, Nat Mater, 2004, 3 (11), 783-6.

Huang, J. Kaner, R. B. , Nanofiber formation in the chemical polymerization of aniline: a mechanistic study, Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2004, 43 (43), 5817-21.

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).

Viculis, L. M. Mack, J. J. Kaner, R. B. , A chemical route to carbon nanoscrolls, Science, 2003, 299 (5611), 1361.

Huang, J. Virji, S. Weiller, B. H. Kaner, R. B. , Polyaniline nanofibers: facile synthesis and chemical sensors, J Am Chem Soc, 2003, 125 (2), 314-5.

Janes, R. A. Low, M. A. Kaner, R. B. , Rapid solid-state metathesis routes to aluminum nitride, Inorg Chem, 2003, 42 (8), 2714-9.

R.B. Kaner, Gas, liquid and enantiomeric separations using polyaniline, Synth. Met., 2002, 125 (65).

Ding, Z., Viculis, L., Cronin, S., Koga, T., Dresselhaus, M., Huang, S.-C. and Kaner, R.B., Solution chemical routes to two-dimensional bismuth tellurides for thermoelectric applications , Thin films: preparation, characterization applications, Kluwer Academic Press, 2002, 157-169.

O'Loughlin, J. L. Wallace, C. H. Knox, M. S. Kaner, R. B. , Rapid solid-state synthesis of tantalum, chromium, and molybdenum nitrides, Inorg Chem, 2001, 40 (10), 2240-5.

Jarvis, R. F., Jr. Jacubinas, R. M. Kaner, R. B. , Self-propagating metathesis routes to metastable group 4 phosphides, Inorg Chem, 2000, 39 (15), 3243-6.