Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions
Ryong Ryoo, IBS Director and KAIST Distinguished Professor, selected by Thomson Reuters as a contender for the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
First Korean ever to be selected, Dr. Ryoo was recognized for the significance of his research in the design of functional mesoporous materials.
The Institute for Basic Science (IBS),the Republic of Korea, has announced on September 25th that RyongRyoo, Director of the Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions at IBS,and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the KoreaAdvanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), was selected for the 2014Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates as a possible winner of the 2014 Nobel Prizein Chemistry. Director Ryoo is the first Korean researcher ever to be listed onthe Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates.
The Thomson Reuters IP&S analystshave named Director Ryoo in one of the three subjects that they have selectedin the field of chemistry. He is recognized for his contributions to the designof functional mesoporous materials, along with Charles T. Kresge from SaudiArabia and Galen D. Stucky from the USA.
Director Ryoo is known as a pioneer inthe field of functional mesoporous materials and zeolite. This has a greatsignificance as he carved out a new research area despite the difficultresearch environment, by studying inorganic chemistry independently afterreturning to his home country with a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from StanfordUniversity, the US.
He wasnamed as one of the “Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010”, which was published insupport of the International Year of Chemistry in 2011, proclaimed by theUnited National Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and theInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).In December of 2011, Science highlightedhis research, “Directing Zeolite Structures into Hierarchically NanoporousArchitectures,” as one of the top ten breakthroughs of the year 2011.
His creative research outcomes on thedesign of functional mesoporous materials have garnered 19,800 citations. Threeof his research papers have each received more than 1,000 citations and hish-index, an index which measures both the productivity and impact of ascientist’s published work, is 69. These statistical figures demonstrate towhat extent he has led the development of his field and how big of an impacthis work has had on the field of chemistry.
Director Ryoo’s research has focused onthe synthesis of mesoporous and the design of mesoporous zeolite for catalyticapplication. He was the first to develop a nanocasting method, whichsynthesizes novel nanostructured materials using nanoporous materials (MesoporousSilica) with a pore diameter of 2-50nm (nanometers) as a hard template. Thismethod made him internationally known when he implemented it to firstsynthesize an ordered mesoporous activated carbon in 1999. This orderedmesoporous carbon is now widely used and is known as “CMK” which stands for“Carbon Mesostructured by KAIST,” the best example of how influential hiscreative research is. From 2006, he has been pioneering and leading thedevelopment of the synthesizing method for zeolite structured mesoporousmaterials, and the outcomes of his study have been published in both Nature and Science.
Hiscreative research on the design of functional mesoporous materials has possibleapplications for highly efficient and environmentally friendly catalysts inchemistry, and therefore is expected to impact the development of basic sciencethat would raise the quality of human life.
The Intellectual Property &Science business of Thomson Reuters,the world leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announcedits 2014 “Nobel-class” Citation Laureatestoday. Having accurately forecast 35 NobelPrize winners since its inception in 2002, the annual Thomson Reuters CitationLaureates study mines scientific research citations to identify the mostinfluential researchers in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine andeconomics.
This year, noteworthynominees on the Thomson Reuters list include, in the field of physiology ormedicine, David Julius, for elucidating the molecular workings of how ournerves process the sensation of pain, opening the way to new advances in painmanagement; and, Charles Lee, Stephen W. Scherer, and Michael H. Wigler, fortheir research clarifying how specific genetic variations link to disease. Inphysics, the list includes Peidong Yang, for his work with light-generatingnanowires which can be used for data storage and optical computing. Inchemistry, Ching W. Tang and Steven Van Slyke are notable for their inventionof the organic light emitting diode, a technology that is now ubiquitous insmartphones, tablets and high definition televisions. In economics, William J.Baumol and Israel M. Kirzner are noted for their advancement of the study ofentrepreneurism.
Thecomplete list of the 2014 Nobel predictions includes 27 researchersrepresenting 27 distinct academic and research organizations across ninedifferent countries.
“Asimitation is one of the most sincere forms of flattery, so too are scientificliterature citations one of the greatest dividends of a researcher’s intellectualinvestment,” said Basil Moftah, president of Thomson Reuters IP & Science.“The aggregate of such citations points to individuals who have contributed themost impactful work and allows us to identify candidates likely to receive a NobelPrize.”
The annual Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates study is based on an analysisof proprietary data within the Web of ScienceTM-- the premier global search and discovery platform for thesciences, social sciences and arts and humanities--which identifies the most influential researchers in the categories ofchemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economics.Aftera thorough review of citations, along with various qualitative measures,Thomson Reuters analysts identify the highest-impact researchers to be includedamong its Citation Laureates, who are likelywinners of the Nobel Prize now or in the future.
Fordetailed information on the methodology of this study, the Citation Laureates,and their fields of research, visit ScienceWatch, an open-Webresource for science metrics and research performance analysis.
Follow @TR_ScienceWatch on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news on the predictions and deeperinsight into their fields of research. Facebook users are encouraged to submittheir own predictions for the 2014 Nobel Prize winners and take part in Nobeldiscussions on the Web of ScienceFacebook page.
The 2014Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates by Nobel Prize category are:
PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE |
James E. Darnell, Jr.
-and-
Robert G. Roeder
-and-
Robert Tjian
For fundamental discoveries concerning eukaryotictranscription and gene regulation |
David Julius
Forelucidating molecular mechanisms of pain sensation |
CharlesLee -and- StephenW. Scherer Senior Scientist and Director, The Centre forApplied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Professor and Director,McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto -and- MichaelH. Wigler For their discovery of large-scale copy numbervariation and its association with specific diseases |
PHYSICS |
Charles L. Kane Class of 1965 Endowed Term Chair Professor ofPhysics, University of Pennsylvania -and- Laurens W. MolenkampProfessor of Physics and Chair of ExperimentalPhysics, University of Würzburg -and- Shoucheng Zhang
For theoretical and experimental research on thequantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators |
James F. Scott
-and- Ramamoorthy Ramesh Professor, Physics and MSE, and Associate LabDirector for Energy Technologies, University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA USA
-and-
YoshinoriTokura* Director, RIKEN Center for Emergent MatterScience, and Professor, Department of Applied Physics, The Universityof Tokyo Saitama and Tokyo, JAPAN
For their pioneering research on ferroelectric memorydevices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh and Tokura). *Tokurawas previously named a Citation Laureate in 2002. |
Peidong Yang
For his contributions tonanowire photonics including the creation of first nanowire nanolaser |
CHEMISTRY |
Charles T. Kresge
Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran
-and- Ryong Ryoo
Director, Center for Nanomaterials and ChemicalReactions, Institute for Basic Science and Distinguished Professor,Department of Chemistry,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
-and- Galen D. Stucky
E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor in Lettersand Science, University of California Santa Barbara
For design of functional mesoporous materials |
Graeme Moad
-and- Ezio Rizzardo
-and-
San H. Thang
For development of thereversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerizationprocess |
Ching W. Tang Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bank of EastAsia Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Rochester, andChair Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Chemistry, and Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology -and- Steven Van Slyke For their invention of theorganic light emitting diode |
ECONOMIC SCIENCES |
Philippe M. Aghion
-and- Peter W. Howitt
For contributions to Schumpeterian growth theory |
William J. Baumol
-and- Israel M. Kirzner
For their advancement of thestudy of entrepreneurism |
Mark S. Granovetter
For his pioneering researchin economic sociology |
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