Younan Xia

Younan Xia is the Brock Family Chair Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is one of the most highly cited chemists and materials scientists in the world, with over 85,000 total citations. Xia is a pioneer in the synthesis of noble metal nanostructures with controlled shapes and sizes — including nanocubes, nanowires, nanocages, and nanoplates. His gold and silver nanocages have unique hollow, porous structures that can be loaded with drugs and have tunable near-infrared plasmonic properties for photothermal and photoacoustic cancer imaging and therapy. He has made foundational contributions to cancer nanomedicine, developing nanoparticle platforms for drug delivery, tumor imaging, and photothermal therapy that have been extensively validated in animal cancer models.

Younan Xia 是佐治亚理工学院化学与生物化学学院及Coulter生物医学工程系的Brock家族讲席教授。他是世界上被引用次数最多的化学家和材料科学家之一，总引用次数超过85,000次。 Xia 是具有可控形状和尺寸的贵金属纳米结构合成领域的开创者，包括纳米立方体、纳米线、纳米笼和纳米片。他的金和银纳米笼具有独特的空心多孔结构，可以装载药物，并具有可调谐的近红外等离激元特性，用于光热和光声癌症成像和治疗。