Richard Kaner, a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the UCLA College and in UCLA Engineering's department of materials science and engineering, has been selected to receive the Materials Research Society Medal, which recognizes an exceptional achievement in materials research in the past 10 years. He will receive the award on Dec. 2 during the society's Fall meeting in Boston.
Kaner’s research focuses on nanomaterials including graphene, an ultrathin material with extraordinary thermal, mechanical and charge-carrying properties; conducting polymers; supercapacitors; and superhard materials. A member of the UCLA faculty since 1987, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Materials Research Society. He is also a former Fulbright, Guggenheim, Packard and Sloan fellow.
In 2014, Kaner was selected by the UCLA Academic Senate to present the 115th Faculty Research Lecture and was profiled in the UCLA Newsroom story, "Changing people's lives — one groundbreaking material at a time."
