Eric Andrew Stach is an American materials scientist who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an elected fellow of both the American Physical Society[1] (for "development and application of in-situ and operando methods in materials research using transmission electron microscopy") and the Microscopy Society of America.[2] He was also awarded the Eli F. Burton Award in 2009.[3] He was named a "Highly Cited Researcher" in the newly established Cross-Field category in 2018.[4]

Eric Stach in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials in 2012

Education

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He earned his B.S. at Duke University in 1992, his M.S. and M.S.E at University of Washington in 1994, his Ph.D. at University of Virginia in 1998,[5] and a Masters of Business Administration from Stony Brook University in 2018.

Research

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His interests are materials science and engineering, crystallography, energy storage, heterogeneous catalysis, nanotechnology[6] and he is a specialist in the field of electron microscopy. His highest cited paper "Graphene-based composite materials"[7] has been cited 9570 times, according to Google Scholar.[8]

Publications

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  • Yanwu Zhu, Shanthi Murali, Meryl D Stoller, KJ Ganesh, Weiwei Cai, Paulo J Ferreira, Adam Pirkle, Robert M Wallace, Katie A Cychosz, Matthias Thommes, Dong Su, Eric A Stach, Rodney S Ruoff. Carbon-based supercapacitors produced by activation of graphene. 332:6037. 1537–1541. Science 2011.
  • Qingkai Yu, Luis A Jauregui, Wei Wu, Robert Colby, Jifa Tian, Zhihua Su, Helin Cao, Zhihong Liu, Deepak Pandey, Dongguang Wei, Ting Fung Chung, Peng Peng, Nathan P Guisinger, Eric A Stach, Jiming Bao, Shin-Shem Pei, Yong P Chen. Control and characterization of individual grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition. 10:6. 443–449. Nature materials. 2011.
  • Qijie Guo, Grayson M Ford, Wei-Chang Yang, Bryce C Walker, Eric A Stach, Hugh W Hillhouse, Rakesh Agrawal. Fabrication of 7.2% efficient CZTSSe solar cells using CZTS nanocrystals. 132:49. 17384–17386. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010.
  • Zhiwei Shan, EA Stach, JMK Wiezorek, JA Knapp, DM Follstaedt, SX Mao. Grain boundary-mediated plasticity in nanocrystalline nickel. 305:5684. 654–657. Science. 2004.

References

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  1. ^ "Personnel news". herald-dispatch.com. December 10, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "List of MSA Fellows". Microscopy Society of America.
  3. ^ "Society Awards". Microscopy Society of America. Archived from the original on 2023-08-30. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  4. ^ "Highly Cited Researchers 2018". Clarivate Analytics. Archived from the original on 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  5. ^ "Eric Stach, Professor Materials Science and Engineering". seas.upenn.edu.
  6. ^ "Stach Group". stachgroup.seas.upenn.edu.
  7. ^ Rodney S. Ruoff Sasha Stankovich, Dmitriy A. Dikin, Geoffrey H. B. Dommett, Kevin M. Kohlhaas, Eric J. Zimney, Eric A. Stach, Richard D. Piner, SonBinh T. Nguyen. Graphene-based composite materials. 442. 282-286. Nature, 2006.
  8. ^ "Eric Stach". Retrieved December 27, 2017.