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Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

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Chemistry
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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the discovery of new materials with exceptional properties, and for developing pioneering materials physics concepts in the design of nanostructured thermoelectric materials that convert waste heat to electricity with breakthrough performance characteristics
  • 2015 - De Gennes Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2014 - MRS Medal, Materials Research Society For the discovery and development of nanostructured thermoelectric materials
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1991 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their work spans interdisciplinary areas primarily within Materials Science and Engineering, contributing extensively to research on materials chemistry and electronic materials.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Within these broader areas, key subfields of research encompass:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Research topics cover a variety of advanced material systems and phenomena, notably:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties
  • Crystal Structures and Properties

Kanatzidis has published a number of papers in highly recognized scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Advanced Materials
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Examples of recent publications are:

  • Improved charge extraction in inverted perovskite solar cells with dual-site-binding ligands, 2024, Science
  • The 2D Halide Perovskite Rulebook: How the Spacer Influences Everything from the Structure to Optoelectronic Device Efficiency, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • High-performance thermoelectrics and challenges for practical devices, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Polycrystalline SnSe with a thermoelectric figure of merit greater than the single crystal, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Bimolecularly passivated interface enables efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells, 2023, Science

Kanatzidis has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Duck Young Chung
  • Vinayak P. Dravid
  • Ioannis Spanopoulos
  • Christopher Wolverton
  • Jacky Even

The scientist has been recognized with various awards and fellowships such as:

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2016, for discoveries and pioneering materials physics concepts in nanostructured thermoelectric materials
  • De Gennes Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2015
  • MRS Medal, Materials Research Society, 2014, for discovery and development of nanostructured thermoelectric materials
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society, 2010
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2002
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1991

Best Publications

  • Semiconducting tin and lead iodide perovskites with organic cations: phase transitions, high mobilities, and near-infrared photoluminescent properties.

    Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Christos D. Malliakas;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • Ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure of merit in SnSe crystals

    Li Dong Zhao;Shih Han Lo;Yongsheng Zhang;Hui Sun

  • High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures

    Kanishka Biswas;Jiaqing He;Ivan D. Blum;Ivan D. Blum;Chun I. Wu

  • Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials

    Valeria Nicolosi;Manish Chhowalla;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis;Michael S. Strano

  • Cubic AgPbmSbTe2+m: Bulk Thermoelectric Materials with High Figure of Merit

    Kuei Fang Hsu;Sim Loo;Fu Guo;Wei Chen

  • High-efficiency two-dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite solar cells

    Hsinhan Tsai;Hsinhan Tsai;Wanyi Nie;Jean Christophe Blancon;Constantinos C. Stoumpos

  • Lead-free solid-state organic–inorganic halide perovskite solar cells

    Feng Hao;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Duyen Hanh Cao;Robert P. H. Chang

  • New and Old Concepts in Thermoelectric Materials

    Joseph R. Sootsman;Duck Young Chung;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • Rationally Designing High-Performance Bulk Thermoelectric Materials

    Gangjian Tan;Li Dong Zhao;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • Beyond fossil fuel-driven nitrogen transformations.

    Jingguang G. Chen;Jingguang G. Chen;Richard M. Crooks;Lance C. Seefeldt;Kara L. Bren

  • 2D Homologous Perovskites as Light-Absorbing Materials for Solar Cell Applications

    Duyen H. Cao;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Omar K. Farha;Omar K. Farha;Joseph T. Hupp

  • Ruddlesden-Popper Hybrid Lead Iodide Perovskite 2D Homologous Semiconductors

    Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Duyen H. Cao;Daniel J. Clark;Joshua Young;Joshua Young

  • All-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells with high efficiency

    In Chung;Byunghong Lee;Jiaqing He;Robert P. H. Chang

  • Ultrahigh power factor and thermoelectric performance in hole-doped single-crystal SnSe

    Li Dong Zhao;Li Dong Zhao;Gangjian Tan;Shiqiang Hao;Jiaqing He

  • De novo synthesis of a metal–organic framework material featuring ultrahigh surface area and gas storage capacities

    Omar K. Farha;A. Özgür Yazaydın;Ibrahim Eryazici;Christos D. Malliakas

  • Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: Big Efficiency Gains from Small Features

    Christopher J. Vineis;Ali Shakouri;Arun Majumdar;Arun Majumdar;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • Crystal Growth of the Perovskite Semiconductor CsPbBr3: A New Material for High-Energy Radiation Detection

    Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Christos D. Malliakas;John A. Peters;Zhifu Liu

  • Anomalous Band Gap Behavior in Mixed Sn and Pb Perovskites Enables Broadening of Absorption Spectrum in Solar Cells

    Feng Hao;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Robert P. H. Chang;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • Two-Dimensional Hybrid Halide Perovskites: Principles and Promises.

    Lingling Mao;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • Low-temperature fabrication of high-performance metal oxide thin-film electronics via combustion processing

    Myung Gil Kim;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis;Antonio Facchetti;Tobin J. Marks

  • Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: The New Paradigm?†

    Mercouri G. Kanatzidis;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Frequent Co-Authors

Duck Young Chung
Duck Young Chung Argonne National Laboratory
Christos D. Malliakas
Christos D. Malliakas Northwestern University
Constantinos C. Stoumpos
Constantinos C. Stoumpos University of Crete
Vinayak P. Dravid
Vinayak P. Dravid Northwestern University
Ctirad Uher
Ctirad Uher University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carl R. Kannewurf
Carl R. Kannewurf Northwestern University
Aditya D. Mohite
Aditya D. Mohite Rice University
Arthur J Freeman
Arthur J Freeman Northwestern University
Hsinhan Tsai
Hsinhan Tsai University of California, Berkeley
Chris Wolverton
Chris Wolverton Northwestern University

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