Biography

Galen D. Stucky
Professor
 Ph. D., Iowa State University, 1962

 University of California, Santa Barbera
 Department: Chemistry and Materials
Email: stucky@chem.ucsb.edu
Homepage: http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/mrl/faculty/stucky.html
Phone: 805-893-4872
Fax: 805-893-4120
Research Statement:

The overall research goal is the design and synthesis of new materials with an emphasis on understanding interface and nucleation chemistry and creating multifunctional 3-D systems by cooperative assembly. Biomaterials, nanostructured organic polymer/inorganic materials, molecular sieves, mesoporous (15 - 500 Å), thermoelectric, catalytic and electro-optic materials are being synthesized and studied. Of particular interest are the single-system assembly of high surface-area separation media, nanostructured composite packaging materials, chip patterned optical circuits, microlaser arrays, photocatalytic systems, low-dielectric coatings, and sensors, and in general the nucleation and crystal growth of biphase nanocomposite materials using the multiphase media and the cooperative assembly of inorganic molecular species with organic block co-polymers.

Education:
1953-57 B.S., Chemistry and Physics, McPherson College, McPherson KS
1957-62 Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames IA
Positions:
1985- Professor, Department of Chemistry and (since 1993) Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara CA
1981-85 CR&D Group and Research Leader, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington DE
1979-81 Supervisor, Solid State Materials, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque NM
1964-80 Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana IL
1963 Postdoctoral Associate, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1962-63 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Quantum Chemistry Institute, Gainesville FL
Selected Honors:
  • First Annual Margaret Etter Memorial Lecturer, University of Minnesota (1993)
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994)
  • Watt Centennial Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin (1999)
  • One of three lecturers at the Symposium in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Chemical Institutes at "Hessische Strasse" (2000)
  • Honorary Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (2000)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientist award (2000)
  • ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2002)
  • Coover Lecturer, Iowa State University (2002)