Nuzzo was a pioneer in the development of methods of
self-assembled monolayers that have led to entirely new areas of surface chemistry with important extensions into physics, biology and materials, and with numerous applications ranging from bio-sensors to advanced electronics. His work has made important contributions to soft lithography – a low cost alternative to conventional photo-lithography for patterning circuits on microchips. Nuzzo co-authored the paper on the "use of principles of physical organic chemistry to create functional surfaces based on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)." The report is one of the "most highly cited papers in the
Journal of the American Chemical Society history".
Education Professor Nuzzo received his B.S. degree in chemistry from
Rutgers University in 1976 and his Ph.D. degree in
organic chemistry from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. After completing his graduate studies, he accepted a position at
Bell Laboratories, then a part of
AT&T, where he held the title of distinguished member of the technical staff in materials research. He is currently the G. L. Clark Professor of Chemistry, and a professor of materials science and engineering at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Awards and achievements 2022 –
Kavli Prize in Nanoscience 2021 – Member of the U. S.
National Academy of Sciences 2011 – Fellow of the American Chemical Society 2007 – Fellow of the AVS 2005 – World Innovation Foundation, Fellow 2005 – American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow 2003 – ACS Arthur Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry 2003 – Senior Editor of Langmuir 2003 – Distinguished Technical Staff Award, Bell Laboratories ==References==