Chad Mirkin

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Chad A. Mirkin is a Northwestern University professor. He is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern. He received his B.S. degree from Dickinson College in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1989. Professor Chad Mirkin is also the founder of NanoInk, a Chicago based nanoscale-manufacturing company. He is also the driving force behind NanoSphere, another nanotechnology start-up company [1].

The focus of his research is on developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 - 100 nm length scale, and on utilizing such structures in the development of analytical tools that can be used in the areas of chemical and biological sensing, lithography, catalysis, and optics. Mirkin has pioneered the use of biomolecules as synthons in materials science and the development of nanoparticle-based biodiagnostics.

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