2005 Staff Highlights
Yuehe Lin and Co-Authors Receive Award for Highly Cited Electrochemistry Article. Congratulations to Environmental Technology Directorate's Yuehe Lin and his co-authors for receiving the 2005 award for the best cited paper published in Electrochemistry Communications. Yuehe's article "Low-potential stable NADH detection at carbon-nanotube-modified glassy carbon electrodes," published in 2002, has been cited extensively. The paper elucidates the researchers' discovery that electrodes based on carbon-nanotubes have significantly enhanced sensitivity and stability for detecting nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a molecule that participates in many important biological reactions. This discovery forms the basis for the development of biosensors based on carbon nanotubes. Electrochemistry Communications is ranked second in citation impact in the field of electrochemistry.
Work by Yuehe Lin, Environmental Technology Directorate, and coworkers from PNNL and the University of Idaho, presented in Langmuir 21(24):11474 - 11479, 2005, was highlighted in the December 2005 issue of Materials Today (Note: Full article requires subscription). The article highlights the work in which Lin et al. deposited Pt/Ru nanoparticles on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) dispersed in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2).
Chemistry World magazine (subscription required for full articles) ran a story on silver hollandite as a possible catalyst to reduce diesel emissions. Reporter Karen Harries Reese interviewed PNNL researchers Liyu Li and Dave King, both of the Energy Science and Technology Directorate, for the story, September 12, 2005.
Yong Wang, PNNL Laboratory Fellow and an Environmental Technology Directorate team lead, has accepted an invitation from the Publishing Editor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Elsevier, Amsterdam, to become a member of the Editorial Board of Catalysis Today. Catalysis Today is ranked second in citation impact in the field of chemical engineering. Yong was selected for this honor because of his contributions in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and microchannel reaction technology to the development of energy-efficient technologies. He is the author or co-author of close to 100 peer-reviewed publications; and has co-edited two books, "Microreactor Technology and Process Intensification," published in 2005, and "Hydrogen Production" to be published in 2006. He also holds 57 issued patents and has more than 30 additional pending patent applications.
A paper by Yuehe Lin (Environmental Technology Directorate) and co-authors is one of the most downloaded papers in the field of chemistry, according to ScienceDirect. Lin's article "Electrocatalytic reactivity for oxygen reduction of palladium-modified carbon nanotubes synthesized in supercritical fluid," in the March 2005 issue of Electrochemistry Communications, discusses synthesizing nanostructured catalysts in a supercritical fluid, and the investigation of electrocatalytic reactivity of the catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. The work demonstrates that the nanocatalysts have great potential for fuel cell applications.
Lai-Sheng Wang, Fundamental Science Directorate, has been named a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow by the Guggenheim Foundation for his work in atomic clusters and multiplying charged anions. Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and for exceptional promise for future accomplishments.
Lai-Sheng Wang also has received the 2005 College of Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award from Washington State University for his research at PNNL, leadership in the field of nanoclusters, and pioneering research in the study of multiply charged anions.
