image: Chi, left, and Advincula of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL have been named Class of 2025 Fellows of the Materials Research Society.
Credit: Genevieve Martin and Carlos Jones /ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Miaofang Chi and Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula, both researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been elected as Class of 2025 Fellows of the Materials Research Society, or MRS. Chi also holds a joint appointment at Duke University, and Advincula is jointly appointed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The society, which has more than 13,000 members from 90 countries, selects Fellows for their distinguished accomplishments and outstanding contributions in advancing materials research. MRS names fewer than 0.2% of current members as Fellows.
MRS lauded Chi for “contributions toward the advancement of novel electron microscopy methods for the study of energy materials.”
The society praised Advincula for “contributions to research on advanced polymers and nanostructured materials and leadership in the frontiers of research, scholarly communication and education in materials.”
Chi is an ORNL Corporate Fellow at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science user facility. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Microscopy Society of America. Chi has extensive research experience in the development and application of novel electron microscopy techniques for energy and quantum materials. Her current research focuses on understanding mass and electron transport and redistribution behavior at the atomic scale at functional interfaces in materials and systems for energy and quantum information science.
Advincula is an ORNL-UT Governor’s Chair Professor of advanced and nanostructured materials and leads the Macromolecular Nanomaterials group at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. He is a Fellow of several professional societies, including the National Academy of Inventors, the American Chemical Society, and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. His research and group interests encompass the design, synthesis, and characterization of polymers and nanomaterials capable of controlled assembly, nanostructuring and self-organization in ultrathin films and monoliths.
New Fellows will be recognized at the MRS spring meeting, which will be held April 7-11, 2025, in Seattle, Washington. The society describes its spring meeting as “the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience” and an opportunity for researchers to exchange technical information and network with colleagues.
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