Emory Chan

Career Staff Scientist

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

EMChan [at] lbl.gov

Dr. Emory Chan is a Career Staff Scientist at the Molecular Foundry, a U. S. Department of Energy nanoscience user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  Dr. Chan’s research interests include the combinatorial, high-throughput synthesis of nanomaterials with complex compositions, such as semiconductor nanoparticle heterostructures tailored for solid state lighting and biological imaging. He also investigates nanomaterials that host complex energy transfer networks, such lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles for lasing and super-resolution imaging.  Towards this end, Dr. Chan has developed robotic workflows that increase the reproducibility and throughput of colloidal nanoparticle synthesis while also enabling machine-learning guided experimentation. These Combinatorial Nanoscience workflows, which include high-throughput optical and structural characterization and in situ liquid cell TEM, are offered to scientists worldwide as part of the Molecular Foundry’s User Program.

Dr. Chan received a B.S. in Chemistry from Stanford University, and he performed his doctoral research on microfluidic nanocrystal synthesis with Prof. Paul Alivisatos and Prof. Richard Mathies in the Chemistry department at the University of California at Berkeley.  Prior to his appointment as Staff Scientist at the Molecular Foundry, Dr. Chan was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Delia Milliron and later served on the technical staff at the Molecular Foundry.

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