Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
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Born (1950-04-08) April 8, 1950 (age 71)
Konstantynów Łódzki, Poland
CitizenshipPoland, United States
Alma materLodz University of Technology
Known forAtom Transfer Radical Polymerization
AwardsFranklin Institute Award (2017)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2011)
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (2004)
Humboldt Prize for Senior Scientists (1999)
Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1981)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Polymer chemistry
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
Doctoral studentsKathryn Beers

Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski (Polish: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf matɨjaˈʂɛfskʲi]; born April 8, 1950) is a Polish-American[1] chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University[2] Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made.[3]

Matyjaszewski was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for expanding the capabilities of controlled/living polymerizations and developing ATRP, a robust catalytic process for the radical polymerization of monomers.

In 2011 he was a co-winner of the prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry.[4]

Education and career[]

Matyjaszewski began studying chemistry at Lodz University of Technology in late 1960s and later graduated from the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School (now Bauman Moscow State Technical University) in Moscow.[5] He received his doctorate from the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1976 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida in 1977. From 1978 to 1984, he was a research associate of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1984 to 1985, Matyjaszewski held appointments at the University of Paris, first as a research associate and then as a visiting professor.[2] In 1985, he joined the chemistry department at Carnegie Mellon University. He founded and currently directs the university's Center for Macromolecular Engineering.[6] This Center is funded both by an active consortium and government agencies, including the National Science Foundation. In 1998, Matyjaszewski was appointed the J.C. Warner Professor of Natural Sciences. In 2004 he was named a University Professor, the highest distinction faculty can achieve at Carnegie Mellon.[7] Mayjaszewski is also an adjunct professor in Carnegie Mellon's department of materials science and engineering.[8]

From 1994 to 1998, Matyjaszewski served as head of the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon and assisted in recruiting additional faculty with strengths in polymer chemistry. At the same time, he formed a research consortium with various industrial corporations to expand the understanding of controlled radical polymerization, including ATRP, and accelerate the transfer of this technology to different commercial applications. A second consortium, the CRP Consortium, formed under his leadership in 2001, continues and expands these efforts, training university and industrial scientists in procedures for responsive polymeric material development.[9] The same year, Matyjaszewski became an adjunct professor at Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh.[2]

Matyjaszewski is a co-inventor on 52 issued U.S. patented technologies and holds 142 international patents.[7]

One of the leading educators in the field of polymer chemistry, Matyjaszewski has mentored more than 200 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students since joining Carnegie Mellon. He has co-authored 20 books, 90 book chapters and more than 1000 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His work has been cited in the scientific literature more than 89,000 times, making him one of the most cited chemists in the world.[1][2][10]

In 2019, Matyjaszewski and Daniel M. Neumark joined the Editorial Advisory Board of the Chinese Chemical Society.[11]

Matyjaszewski has received numerous awards for his work, including the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry,[12] 2017 Medema Lecture Award,[13] 2015 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences,[14] 2014 National Institute of Materials Science (Japan) Award,[12] 2012 Dannie Heineman Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. He has been honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) with the 2015 Charles G. Overberger Prize,[15] and is an honorary member of the Chinese Chemical Society.[11]

Matyjaszewski's work has been recognized in his native country of Poland. In 2004, he received the Annual Prize of the Foundation of Polish Science, the most prestigious scientific award in Poland, referred to as the Polish Nobel Prize.[1] In 2005 he became a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Science, and in 2007, he received an honorary degree from Lodz University of Technology in Poland. He has also received honorary degrees from the Technion,[16] Israel, the University of Ghent, Belgium, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Athens, Greece, Polytechnic Institute in Toulouse, France, Pusan National University in South Korea.[citation needed], Universite P. & M. Curie, Sorbonne in Paris,[17] and Technion in Haifa, Israel.[16]

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References[]

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  3. ^ Wang, Jin-Shan; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof (May 1995). "Controlled/"living" radical polymerization. Atom transfer radical polymerization in the presence of transition-metal complexes". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 117 (20): 5614–5615. doi:10.1021/ja00125a035.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "The 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry". Wolf Fund. Archived from the original on May 17, 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
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  6. ^ "Center for Macromolecular Engineering". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Krzysztof Matyjaszewski". Matyjaszewski Polymer Group. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Department of Materials Science and Engineering". Carnegie Mellon University. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  9. ^ "Present Status of the CRP Consortium". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  10. ^ "CMU's Krzysztof Matyjaszewski on Radical Polymerization". Reuters Science Watch. February 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b "Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Daniel M. Neumark join the CCS Chemistry Editorial Advisory Board". Chinese Chemical Society. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Krzysztof Matyjaszewski". The Franklin Institute. 2016-10-05. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  13. ^ "PTN Medema Lecture Award". PTN Dutch National Graduate School of Polymer Science and Technology. Archived from the original on 4 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  14. ^ "Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Awarded 2015 Dreyfus Prize". The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b "Charles G. Overberger International Prize for Excellence in Polymer Research". Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b "Technion Salutes its Honorary Doctors | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology". www.technion.ac.il. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  17. ^ "Krzysztof Matyjaszewski". UPMC. UPMC. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  18. ^ "Carl S. Marvel Award for Creative Polymer Chemistry Award". 2017-11-28. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  19. ^ "2004 Awardee for the Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering, sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Company". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  20. ^ "June 22: Carnegie Mellon's Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Receives EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  21. ^ Smaglik, Paul (14 October 2009). "Krzysztof Matyjaszewski". Nature. 461 (1015): 1015. doi:10.1038/nj7266-1015a.
  22. ^ "2011 ACS Applied Polymer Science Award". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  23. ^ Jump up to: a b c Wang, Linda. "Kris Matyjaszewski Wins Madison Marshall Award". American Chemical Society. p. 31.
  24. ^ "AkzoNobel North America Science Award". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  25. ^ "Current NAI Fellows". National Academy of Inventors. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  26. ^ "NIMS Conference 2014 and Announcement of NIMS Award 2014". National Institute for Materials Science. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  27. ^ "The Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences". Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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  29. ^ "Two new Corresponding Members admitted to the Academy". Australian Academy of Science. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  30. ^ "Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski doktorem honoris causa UAM" (in Polish). naukawpolsce.pap.pl. Retrieved 1 November 2019.

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