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Profile of Paul Weiss
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24th February 1976 |
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New Jersey, USA |
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Paul Weiss is a leading nanoscientist at the Pennsylvania State University. He holds numerous positions, including professor of the Depts. of Physics and Chemistry, Associate Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science, and committee membership on professional organizations relating to physics/chemistry. Weiss has co-authored over 180 research publications and US patents.
Personality
Q: What do you enjoy about your work?
A: I love exploring the unknown. I enjoy developing new tools for discovery. I also like to think about where a new result might lead. What are the possible ways that we could use what we find? This could be in enhancing chemistry, in growing atomically precise structures, in controlling biological function, or in tailoring some local chemical, physical or electronic properties. --Interview 31-May-2000 with David Bradley on behalf of The Alchemist
Research
The Weiss Research Group specializes in `gaining atomic-scale understanding and control of materials properties'. Scanning probe microscopy, including atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy, is used as primary instrumentation to image/interrogate surfaces with novel and unexpected properties. Secondary instrumentation is used to characterize surfaces on a macroscopic level. Projects are interdisplinary in nature, between the fields of quantum physics, computer science, chemistry, and electrical engineering.
The Weiss Group has traditionally focused on self-assembled monolayers as a well-defined environment to test chemical reactivity, single-electron transport mechanisms, and as an improvement to [nanofabrication]] techniques. The group has now diversified to encompass projects that have wide-ranging impact in the field of nanoscience.
The Weiss Group, of approximately 30 members, is funded from multiple sponsors with an annual operating budget on the order of one million dollars.
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