{"311561":{"#nid":"311561","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Younan Xia Named 2014 Fellow of the American Chemical Society","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYounan Xia, professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society (ACS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, ACS named 99 members as fellows, chosen based on their outstanding accomplishments in chemistry as well as their contributions to ACS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is a wonderful thing to be recognized by my peers and the research community,\u201d said Xia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXia specializes in creating nanomaterials, studying their properties and exploring how they can be used. He has also served as an associate editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters since 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently Xia is working on developing more efficient catalysts for hydrogen fuel cell technology, creating new scaffolding materials to be used in regenerative medicine, and cultivating contrasts and therapeutic agents for use in the fight against cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe scientists selected as this year\u2019s class of ACS fellows are truly a dedicated group, said Tom Barton, president of ACS. \u201cTheir outstanding contributions to advancing chemistry through service to the society are many. In their quest to improve people\u2019s lives through the transforming power of chemistry, they are helping us to fulfill the vision of the American Chemical Society.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new fellows will be recognized at the ACS Fellows Ceremony and Reception on Monday, August 11, 2014 during the society\u2019s 248th National Meeting \u0026amp; Exposition in San Francisco.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Younan Xia was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Younan Xia was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2014-07-30 09:50:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:48","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"253511":{"id":"253511","type":"image","title":"Younan Xia","body":null,"created":"1449243828","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:48","changed":"1475894934","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:54","alt":"Younan Xia","file":{"fid":"198154","name":"14c10302-p12-004.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1475310,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg?itok=yxYyx3UD"}}},"media_ids":["253511"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"743","name":"acs"},{"id":"5477","name":"American Chemical Society"},{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"919","name":"Biochemistry"},{"id":"2548","name":"biomedical"},{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"89","name":"chemistry"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"98771","name":"xia"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}