New scientists join Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials
Argonne, Ill. (Sept. 6, 2007) – Two new scientists have joined the Center
for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne
National Laboratory. Elena Rozhkova and Elena Shevchenko are contributing
their expertise to the NanoBio
Interfaces Group.
“We are looking forward to having these two scientists conduct research with
us at one of the best venues available,” said Tijana Rajh, Argonne's CNM NanoBio
Interfaces group leader.
“With their assistance we will continue our integration of soft biological
and organic molecular assemblies with hard inorganic nanoarchitectures to be
applied to chemical catalysis, sensors, energy and information storage, developing
new cures for cancer and biological intervention,” she added.
Rozhkova earned her Ph.D in Chemistry, with specialization in Bioorganic Chemistry
and Chemistry of Natural Bioactive compounds, from Moscow
State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology in Russia in 1997. She most recently worked as a Research
Associate in the Biological Division at the University
of Chicago, where she
focused on bio-functionalized nanocomposites for biomedical and environmental
applications.
As a Japan Society for Promotion
of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow, Rozhkova
conducted research on iron-oxygenases, in particular Nitric Oxide Synthase,
mechanisms of catalysis, oxygen activation and electron transfer at Tohoku
University's Multidisciplinary Institute for Advanced Materials. Later she
continued her research in the field of metalloproteins at the Chemistry Department
at Princeton University. She was also a recipient of the Women's Council of
the Brain Research Foundation award that was featured in the BRF Newsletter, “Brain
Waves.”
A member of the American
Chemical Society, Rozhkova has written and collaborated
on 23 peer-reviewed publications and has been awarded two patents.
Shevchenko, originally from Belarus, earned her Ph.D in Chemistry in 2003
from the University
of Hamburg in Germany. Previously, she worked as a staff
scientist at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory on bringing together constituents
of intrinsically different functionality nanoparticles in order to create novel
functional materials with synergistic properties found in neither of the constituents,
as well as on nanoparticle design. Her research highlights include synthesis
and size control of nanoparticles and their assembling into highly periodic
structures, Prior to her work at Lawrence Berkeley, Shevchenko bridged her
postdoctoral fellowship between time at the IBM
Watson Research Center and
Columbia University. Her work was recently featured in Nature as well
as Chemical and Engineering
News.
She is a member of both the Materials
Research Society and the German Physical
Chemistry Society and has been published in 32 peer-reviewed publications.
Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials is a national resource for the US
to foster new research capabilities in nanoscale synthesis and processing,
and it plays a key role in the DOE's participation in the interagency National
Nanotechnology Initiative. The center's mission includes supporting basic research
and advanced instrumentation development for the creation of novel materials,
using both top-down and bottom-up self-assembly, that provide new insights
at the nanoscale level. The facility also supports a user program, through
peer-reviewed proposals, that is open to academic, industrial, government,
and international potential users.
Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology.
The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic
and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne
researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities,
and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific
problems, advance America 's scientific leadership and prepare the nation for
a better future. With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne is managed
by UChicago
Argonne, LLC for
the U.S.
Department of Energy's Office
of Science.
For more information, please
contact Steve McGregor (630/252-5580 or media@anl.gov)
at Argonne.
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